Sentence examples for collective breakdown from inspiring English sources

"The anti-western intellectual cranks of the left suffered a collective breakdown when communism collapsed.

With telling sensory detail of the kind Patrick Suskind made famous in "Perfume", Mr Saramago imagines the horrible, collective breakdown that ensues when vision is removed.

Cech was at the heart of the collective breakdown on the first goal, when Arsenal took up a high defensive line on Dimitri Payet's free-kick.

One implication, particularly, stood out: namely, in any other industry where there had been such a collective breakdown of standards, and where such injustice had been perpetrated, there would have been an inquiry.

Cocooned inside Grimsby town hall on Wednesday, Nigel Farage's staff appeared to be having some sort of collective breakdown about the presence outside of fewer than 30 peaceful protesters - who were surrounded by at least eight police and liaison officers.

She assumed, she said, that her real task was to prevent a team frustrated by the failings of the Guardian's two-headed operation (the editor worked mainly from Manchester) from undergoing a collective breakdown.

The theory was subsequently denied by Bowie's spokesperson, which seems a shame: there's a pleasing circularity to the idea of a muse that burst into life amid what the writer Francis Wheen called the "collective nervous breakdown" of the 1970s, apparently sparking up again amid the collective nervous breakdown of the present day.

Is it some kind of collective nervous breakdown?

FISCAL officers in the states might be forgiven for having a collective mental breakdown.

The nation and much of the media seem to be having a collective nervous breakdown.

It sounds like a profession on the edge of a collective nervous breakdown.