Sentence examples for destructive love from inspiring English sources
His Sylvia (Daunt Books) tracks a fatally destructive love affair and marriage in Greenwich Village in 1960.
The God of desire, Cupid, is at first glance a sweet little boy with wings, but his arrows can infect anyone, god or mortal, with maddening, destructive love.
And even when he was in shocking shape, high or plunged in a destructive love affair, he still had reserves of strength.
It tells the story of Gino Costa, a handsome itinerant vagabond, to be played by Law, who becomes involved in a chilling, destructive love triangle.
A multiple pile-up of destructive love affairs, betrayal and heartbreak, Closer, adapted from Patrick Marber's hit 1990s play and directed by Mike Nichols, is all about sex.
The Fitzgeralds' destructive love has been well chronicled, but this scene, like the rest of the new series, is a one-woman biographical burlesque: Hey, Zelda lets it all hang out!
Set in Venice in 1866, as the Austrian occupation of the city was being challenged by the Italian nationalist forces led by Garibaldi, "Senso," like many of Visconti's movies, is the story of a viciously self-destructive love affair.
Irrepressibly fertile in melody, Prokofiev hung his recitatives on sturdy melodic supports like the big round tune that begins the opera and sustains most of poor Aleksei's futile professions of self-destructive love for the peevish Pauline.
El águila bicéfala, Gala's collection of meditations on the eternal riddle of love, prepared readers for his denser work, La pasión turca, which probed the complex passions of a middle-class Spanish woman driven to extremes by self-destructive love for a duplicitous Turk.
The overlap between business, government and gangsterdom in Russia's move to capitalism is as gripping as it is murky.The third big theme is the self-destructive love of the central character, an American banker called Alice Liddell, for Moscow's bewitching chaos and squalor.
These last, doomed flourishes of the ailing genius left opponents with the heartbreaking dilemma; run out a gasping Jackson as he flayed their bowling attacks around but struggled between the wickets or, as Frith put it, "spare him so that his obsessive but self-destructive love of batting could continue to be gratified; a harrowing choice of mercies".
