Sentence examples for annihilated as from inspiring English sources

In Mashonaland some 450 settlers were annihilated as the uprising, beginning in Chief Mashayamombe's area in the Hartley district, spread to other regions.

So terrifying is this experience that we develop many different tactics aimed at warding off invalidation and defending ourselves against being annihilated as a person.

Alcoholism and depression are only two of a number of desperate defences that we can use to try to fend off the fear of being annihilated as a person.

If you forget the scenario, you can hear the piece as depicting combat between music in regular meter (4/4, 3/4 and such) and breakaway stretches where symmetrical pulse is annihilated, as in the climactic "Sacrificial Dance," which pummels listeners with slashing chords but gives them no steady beat to hang on to.

As we leave and head south, we come across the bleak, twisted remains of a government armoured convoy, annihilated as it retreated from Luhansk two weeks ago.

Anonymized (or "annihilated" as she put it in a recent interview with VICE) by her own veil, and putting her words in the mouths of others, Anohni's gesture seemed to say that these songs are laments for everyone that the power of the words lay not only in the words themselves, but the impact they make when uttered in unison.

Her immune system would be temporarily annihilated, and, as soon as it recovered, another chemo cycle would begin.

When the middle-aged sisters in "A Delicate Balance" have at each other, they're as delicately annihilating as Cecily and Gwendolen in "The Importance of Being Earnest".

The peasant-dance second movement is a little slower than that of other conductors, but the detail — those trills in the horns and winds — are biting; the famously difficult-to-play scherzo as viciously annihilating as you could want, and the finale is one of the greatest things von Karajan ever did.

He also vows to "annihilate" as many people as he can, including plans to target a UC Santa Barbara sorority house and people on the streets of Isla Vista.

Iran continues to find new ways to express its pathological desire to annihilate Israel, as well as to kill Jews, including calls from the Iranian side for all the world's Jews to move to Israel -- so the Iranian regime can be spared the tsuris of having to hunt all of them down.