Sentence examples for had destroyed him from inspiring English sources

He said that the village had destroyed him.

"He thought this verdict had destroyed him, effectively".

Long before Brendan Behan died last Friday it was obvious that success had destroyed him, and in the macabre comedy of his final years he had the appeal of a "wild Dublin character" giving a repeat performance of the death of Dylan Thomas.

If so, then the terrible conflict of sexual yearning and familial duties that is at the heart of "Last Tango" (and which may have helped make it such a wrenching experience for Mr. Brando, who wrote afterward that it had destroyed him emotionally) will be current again.

"It could have destroyed him completely".

"They have destroyed him psychologically.

Pietri soon accelerated past him, but the spurt appears to have destroyed him.

Eight years ago, such a Grand Slam loss would have destroyed him.

Other accounts of the Director's alleged sexual activity, if true, would certainly have destroyed him had they become public.

Hoover himself, meanwhile, had a personal secret that – in his era – could have destroyed him if revealed.

"I told him that I kept him more or less normal for thirty-three yeand, and you all have destroyed him in seven," she said.