Sentence examples for destructive figure from inspiring English sources

When Tony Benn died in 2013 Healey was virtually the only surviving Labour contemporary to say what a destructive figure he had been.

Disaffected Democrats have reached out, Mr. Tisch said, expressing concerns that Mr. de Blasio would be a "destructive" figure in a city accustomed to a business-friendly mayor.

Yet triumphalism would in some respects be out of place, for Napoleon wasn't simply a destructive figure; on the contrary, for all the havoc wrought by his never-ending wars, he also introduced modern administrative and legal institutions into large parts of Europe, sweeping away inequalities and injustices in one semi-feudal region after another.

Without being a destructive figure a la Charlie Parker, Petrucciani certainly dove into life, drinking and drugging and staying up till dawn.

When everyone is made to fear because leaders act too swiftly, without building support and sharing voice with others, then bad teachers get to hide in the shadows of the destructive figure head.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla). lays into Obama in a speech in South Carolina, calling him one of the most "divisive" and "destructive" figures in American history.

The twin archetypes of gothic horror were created by British authors at the beginning and end of the 19th century: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster and Bram Stoker's Carpathian Count Dracula, both sad, lonely, destructive figures.

Here named Marianne she's played by the Dutch actress Johanna ter Steege ("The Vanishing") as a darkly romantic, self-destructive figure, addicted to heroin and abrupt departures.

Parsons, the country-rock pioneer who had briefly been a member of the Byrds and turned Keith Richards on to country music, was an angel-faced, self-destructive figure who spotted Harris singing in a folk club in Washington DC.

Is there a case to be made for the ne'er-do-well Billy Bigelow as a New England Peter Grimes, an ostracised, self-destructive figure prone to inflicting violence on the things he loves?

Many of the Puritans had been convinced that there was a single destructive prophetic figure behind all of the difficulties that the colony had been having, and Hutchinson had just become the culprit.