Sentence examples for destroyed gift from inspiring English sources

In the past they have disrupted private parties and beaten up the revelers, and even destroyed gift shops that displayed the red heart.

In killing the albatross, he has destroyed his gift.

No one was injured in the fire, but it destroyed the gift shop and badly damaged a pair of priceless 17th century Italian tapestries that hung over windows on the cathedral's north wall, adjoining the shop.

I'm talking about what economists and their acolytes have long mourned as "the deadweight loss" of gift giving – the portion of the retail value of a gift that is destroyed when the gift is given.

And when her mental health deteriorates, he gives consent for her to have the electroshock therapy that finally breaks her spirit and destroys her gift.

Excessive pollution from fossil fuels threatens to destroy the gifts bestowed on us by God, whom we know as Allah - gifts such as a functioning climate, healthy air to breathe, regular seasons, and living oceans.

Hardships don't destroy the gifts, but send them into dormancy.

With the birth of my son, I received the same gift I destroyed.

The president might have said that already destroyed embryos contain the gift of life for those suffering, through no fault of their own, from nature's illnesses.

Here we are as a society idolizing a woman who took an amazing gift and destroyed every last bit.

Marcel Mauss, a French sociologist and anthropologist and one of the most influential thinkers about gift-giving, wrote about one practice in which huge amounts of wealth was destroyed: the potlatch, a gift-giving feast among native people of the Pacific Northwest.