What's horrible about that kind of self-absorbed narcissism is that, by example, all around the world they are committing a kind of unintentional genocide".
It's tempting to commit a kind of moral synecdoche — to take a part (e.g., voting for Trump) for a whole (being a bad person).
(Nuvoletta, the daughter of the water goddess Anna Livia Plurabelle, commits a kind of transformational suicide by turning her cloudy being into water drops, in the most delightfully girlish language imaginable).
Serious personal neglect is another warning sign; people can commit a kind of passive suicide by failing to eat, letting themselves become dangerously sedentary or not taking needed medication.
"The action," it declared, "is in response to a growing body of research indicating that man-made industrial chemicals and pesticides may commit a kind of molecular sabotage within the body's regulatory apparatus, possibly causing birth defects, low sperm counts, breast cancer, mental impairment and a range of other ailments".
Some of the best-studied examples of these genes are those that essentially commit a kind of fratricide to get ahead.
She pretends to be much healthier than she is — she gives "a tremendous performance of being alive," in Garner's savage phrase — and is committed to a kind of social fraudulence that saddens and then gradually enrages her host.
Godfrey Spry was perhaps the most fascinating TV character Briers would play, dealing with every horrible turn his life took – injury, the death of his wife, the murder he committed – with a kind of relentless, demented cheeriness.
One of several lines from different poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins that John strung together during the months immediately after his younger brother committed suicide, a kind of improvised rosary.
