Sentence examples for art of destroying from inspiring English sources

And the worldly men who conspire to blacken Luise's name (because she has been foolish enough to love above her station) could give Richard III some competition in the art of destroying inconvenient lives.

But any survey of war-damaged cities must inevitably focus on the mass destructions of the 20th century, when weaponry and ways of conducting war perfected the art of destroying a city.

"The power of destroying art is enormous.

It crossed my mind that it might be conceptual art examining the spectacle of destroying $100,000 worth of drugs.

"My resignation is to protest [against] those decisions, which testify to the minister's clear strategy of destroying the arts and culture of the country".

"But hiding one's art is, of course, the opposite of destroying it.

The Germans cleared out the original Mundaneum site to make way for an exhibit of Third Reich art, destroying thousands of boxes filled with index cards.

An art museum is a place to preserve art -- unless you are making a meta statement about art by destroying the tools of the artist (a la Pete Townsend).

Dozens of lives were lost, great works of art destroyed or nearly destroyed, and a million books in the city's low-lying Biblioteca Nazionale were submerged.

Courts there have held, for example, that although the buyer of a work of art may destroy it, he or she cannot deface or otherwise alter it.

This isn't the only recent example of art being destroyed in the name of religion.