Sentence examples for destructive intimacy from inspiring English sources

Accelerating fiscal deterioration overlapped with the political unravelling of the historically dominant Fianna Fáil party, and the destructive intimacy of bankers, developers and ruling politicians became the prime focus of public anger.

BPD was "invented" in the 1970s to cover a range of symptoms including violent mood swings, difficulties with intimacy, depression, fear of abandonment and self-destructive behaviour.

Jealousy can be very powerful, and any perceived intimacy outside the relationship can be just as destructive.

It was the Colonel's decision to light one; he wished not only to add a familial intimacy to their deliberations but also to illustrate with fire the destructive yet restorative nature of their coming actions.

He wrote that "games nearly always are destructive, inasmuch as their dynamic is ulterior, and the ulterior quality is the antithesis to intimacy".

We need to teach our young men that intimacy and honesty are the foundation of healthy relationships and that lies and deceit are destructive not only to others but to themselves.

There's something as self-destructive as drug addiction in embracing a persona that glorifies the physicality of sex over the intimacy of emotion.

And watching the climactic scene of Wade's play, in which the most destructive of the diners is offered a fast track to political promotion, I got a vivid sense of the masonic intimacy that still characterises British life.

You have to decide on a daily basis to do the things that make your relationship work and to stop doing the things that are destructive to the relationship". The most common divorce scenario, she said, is the wife who pursues her husband for emotional intimacy and the husband who withdraws.

Tóibín gives a familiar story startling intimacy, drawing us into the anguish of a mother who has failed to save her rebellious, self-destructive child.

Destructive: constructive.