Sentence examples for capacity for destruction from inspiring English sources

With his random, prowling capacity for destruction, he will haunt Harry's career as a homesteader.

He is pessimistic about the future, anxious about nuclear weapons and our spiralling capacity for destruction.

The capacity for destruction had been so much greater than in the earlier war that much of Europe and Asia lay in ruins.

Change is the everlasting story of New York City, but few streets have illustrated the city's capacity for destruction and rejuvenation like Charlotte Street.

If Diana, with her smiling blonde capacity for destruction, was the Blairite Princess, maybe the Queen Mother was the ideal Hague or Duncan Smith royal, with her old-fashioned sense of responsibility and nationhood.

In this he is drawing partly on the tradition of Catholic social teaching, and partly on moral thinking popular in the 1960s, when moral philosophers were first grappling with the implications of nuclear weapons and the sense that humankind had not grown up but reached its toddler stage, where the capacity for destruction far outweighed our capacity for judgment.

The violence of the American Civil War interrupted an age that saw itself as one of growing benevolence and humanitarianism, introducing a startling awareness of man's capacities for destruction that found its terrible fulfillment between 1914 and 1918.

Aug. 6, the anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit.

Unlike gambling, they packed an enormous capacity for economic destruction — hobbling banks that made bad bets, freezing credit and economic activity.

California has always lost jobs to other places (one of the strong points of its economy is its capacity for creative destruction), so bleating businesspeople are nothing new.

An experienced research scientist and field ecologist, Larson dazzles with these sensuous and sophisticated poems, grappling with the powers of poetic imagination as well as the frightful realization of the human capacity for ecological destruction.