Neither he nor Melinda said anything for a long time, and he listened to the strange vacuum of sound that the cell phone delivered when no one was speaking, a technological absence that felt annihilating.
Here the sheer comfort of Spain's players on the ball felt like an annihilating ace.
And so began a long journey of loneliness, isolation and self-destruction because, somehow, I internalized that I had to annihilate everything that I felt and was, even if I was miserable the entire time.
War is annihilating in its destructiveness, but generations of males in particular have felt that the experience of battle was essential to true masculinity.
Looking back from Ann to her mother, he saw — an optical illusion, it felt like, some kind of trick — the girl's face and the woman's at the same time, Betsy at 19, the annihilating work of time, some furious sandstorm blowing through and obliterating everything in its path.
It all feels grindingly inevitable, like the annihilating whim of the gods in Euripides.
If Samuel Beckett's plays sometimes feel like an expression of the annihilating possibility that there is nothing to express, that is nowhere more true than in these three late pieces.
Similarly, despite instances of annihilating betrayal and deception, you never feel much sympathy for those who are wounded by such behavior.
If he/she makes you feel bad about yourself, makes you feel worthless, annihilates your self esteem, that is a very bad relationship to be in.
Unhealthy competitiveness means that Ruthless Envy rules: One feels the need to win at all costs, and winning means to annihilate the other.
