But it's by no means a reason to pop Cristal -- now comes the task of bringing our economy to where it would have been had the financial sector's galactic incompetence not sent the rest of us into ruination in the first place.
"In their ruination, as it were, their loss of perfection, they are in a sense illustrating what has happened to them," said John Fidler, head of building conservation and research at English Heritage, a British agency that, like the National Park Service, maintains historic battlefields.
It was instead a rumination on our collective guilt in the ruination of Christopher Jefferies's life.
Some may ask what is the point of Goldsworthy's updating, but she places location much more at the heart of her version, accusing London itself of as much culpability in the ruination of individuals.
How can Gamache ask dear friends like Myrna Landers, who owns the bookstore, and Gabri and Olivier, the gay couple who operate the B&B, to assist in the ruination of their village?
The targets of his moral outrage are the hypocritical churchmen, gutter journalists and vicious rumormongers who participate in the ruination of a Roman Catholic priest for his attentions to a young unmarried mother living in poverty in his West Yorkshire parish.
It's no exaggeration to say that, as noble and humanitarian-minded as the abolition of child labor was, it also resulted in the ruination of many families.
Over the past 70 years we have had very little help from government in rebuilding Dover following its ruination in the second world war.
Among them are the Jordan Gate Towers, Limitless Towers and the Royal Village, each in a varied state of incompletion, part of a system of ruination in which incompleteness or failure can actually be financially successful for the State and its oligarchic network.
