Sentence examples for destruction of works from inspiring English sources

The crime novelist Patricia Cornwell's purchase and destruction of works by the British artist Walter Sickert in pursuit of her theory that the disturbing early-20th century painter of music hall audiences and seedy interiors was Jack the Ripper nauseated many, me included.

Gallery closures were common, as was the removal or even destruction of work.

We don't advocate the destruction of working gadgets, but when they're broken, go nuts, like the guy in the video above.

We are also seeing the complete destruction of work-hours as being set from 9-5.

The proposal is a Trojan horse: It appears to be a gift, in the form of middle class tax relief, but would, if enacted, lead to the destruction of working Americans' fundamental economic security.

It turned out that "Dialled" was an oddly perfect hymn to the humdrum self-destruction of working a shit job, and the potential for self-reinvention that rolls round at clocking off time.

This long, exciting second world war thriller (based on a true-life incident involving art conservationist Rose Villard, who appears briefly in its opening sequence) has particular present-day relevance in view of the mindless destruction of art works and ancient ruins by Islamic State and our responses to these iconoclastic barbarities.

The bonfire faced none of the cries of censorship that usually accompany the destruction of creative works.

(They ignored "unthinking attacks," like those by the mentally ill, or the destruction of a work to conceal an art theft from the authorities).

Asked how he felt to experience the destruction of his work, he said: "Sometimes I feel a sense of loss; sometimes of relief".

Entropy generation is equivalent to destruction of available work (exergy).