Sentence examples for human ruin from inspiring English sources

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The area has become a dumping ground littered with both human ruin — a shuttered fish farm, a closed juvenile detention camp and a former rocket test site — and abandoned animals.

The humiliating pains and exiguous emphases of poverty — Zeena mourns more over the shards of her pickle dish than over any human ruin — were mysteriously accessible to this rich woman, transferred from some enduringly felt deprivation amid her life of outward comforts.

Here's Updike on "Ethan Frome": The humiliating pains and exiguous emphases of poverty — Zeena mourns more over the shards of her pickle dish than over any human ruin — were mysteriously accessible to this rich woman, transferred from some enduringly felt deprivation amid her life of outward comforts.

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Yet we turn away from the human ruins our system has created, and work hard to ignore the damage that travels down the generations.

"I believe the reason why some people, roughly 3% of the world's population, ruin their life by doing drugs, is exactly the same as why the overwhelming majority of humans ruin their life work jobs they do not like," he said, referring to the human need to find a palliative for the reality of their existence.

Along the way they created a 300-page back story that describes how humans ruined the planet and were eventually forced off by toxic air, severe unpredictable weather, tsunamis and earthquakes, complete with a political, spiritual and technological guide to life on the new planet Nova Prime.

But for humans to ruin their own environment … I can never forgive that".

So began a war that has waxed and waned, sputtered and sprinted, until it became an unmitigated disaster, an abomination of justice and a self-perpetuating, trillion-dollar economy of wasted human capital, ruined lives and decimated communities.

The area has a long history of human occupation; ruins of a medieval monastery and "Blakeney Chapel" (probably a domestic dwelling) are buried in the marshes.

Never mind the purely selfish reasons why you wouldn't want a human larva ruining your life let's look at this from a socio-environmental standpoint.

But humans have ruined their nights.

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