Sentence examples for destructive turn from inspiring English sources

Yet calls for a reversal of the destructive turn toward austerity are still having a hard time getting through.

When I raised the matter with the king, he told me, "Competition is good, but in this particular setup, it took a destructive turn.

I wanted to discover how or why Fischer's obsessive character had taken such a self-destructive turn.

This is a story in which the only really destructive person turns out to be someone who was expected to be some kind of a gentle genius, and the tragic irony of this, coming at the end, is shattering.

This man -- his daughter found out that he was having an affair; his impulsive activities at work were completely destructive; he turned on Peggy; he had a dalliance with a neighbor, which was such an incredibly self-destructive thing to do; and as soon as she rejected him he became obsessed.

Ultimately, I have had enough experience with anxiety to sense when it may turn destructive.

"This cynicism has gone beyond reasonable questioning, and could easily turn destructive".

This season, Willow has been as emotionally frozen as Buffy, afraid to fully utilize her Wiccan powers, lest they turn destructive again.

And you can see how that can be very destructive and can turn into steroid abuse, sunbeds, even as far as cosmetic surgery".

In New Guinea their destructive power may turn against the object itself, causing a carving to rot, self-consumed; or an object may become so loaded with accumulated power that it has to be buried or otherwise eliminated.

Thus we tend to produce more adrenalin than is good for us, and we either suppress ourselves and turn destructive energies inwards or else we do not suppress ourselves and we start hitting people.