Sentence examples for destructive addiction from inspiring English sources

The True Knot presents as a sort of reverse AA, a fellowship in the service of a destructive addiction.

Defensively, high-risk safeties Brandon Meriweather and Tanard Jackson were brought in to help stabilize a secondary that still features grossly overpaid cornerback DeAngelo Hall (a living symbol of this team's destructive addiction).

Each of the characters has displaced a smoking-related neurosis with another self- or socially destructive addiction, like energy drinks, Bible thumping, or in one particularly inspired touch, Riverdancing.

While some may say that greed is good, typically it is a destructive addiction that will cause disastrous wars or an over-leveraged portfolio that crashes.

But the tedious repetitive nature of the work soothes Kretz who believes that if she did not make art, she "would suffer from a more destructive addiction, or not be here at all".

Third only to alcohol and the affirmation of people who will never ever love me, Words with Friends is the most intense and destructive addiction I have ever experienced.

These scholarly activities devoured huge amounts of his time, until eventually he realized that they were destructive addictions, sapping his interest in his own work, and he gave them up: "I think that this passion [for Lope] was a useful therapy: pure research has nothing to do with human beings".

Quit Genius uses CBT to take smokers through stages of quitting, using a number of different types of content, from audio sessions to animated videos to interactive exercises to help people think differently about destructive addictions.

Your way of "relating to" the Consul is seeing how he lies to himself, how he is trapped in a self-destructive addiction.

"Bachelorette" is about gluttony, which in Ms. Headland's contemporary take is expressed through self-destructive addictions to alcohol, drugs, shopping, bad boyfriends and binge bulimia.

In a passage devoted to his public sex scandal, they declare, "At thirty-three, he was untethered from his family by a narcissism that fed his self-destructive addictions to bodybuilding, painkillers, sleeping pills, and sex".