Sentence examples for instant destruction from inspiring English sources
Back in Italy the ruins are in decay, here they were displayed in all their freshness of instant destruction.
The town has been frequently damaged by hurricanes, particularly in 1780, when it was swept to instant destruction, and again in 1988.
The record reveals that, for instance, the threat of instant destruction by nuclear weapons has not ranked high among the concerns of planners.
Mr. Ashcroft entered the debate as early as 1998 while he was a senator from Missouri, voting in favor of an amendment to a bill that would have required instant destruction of the records.
His show at the Gagosian, which runs through Feb. 28, juxtaposes large stainless-steel models of bridges with bullets cast in 24-karat gold, archetypes of patient construction and instant destruction.
And while I'm not arguing that we should (or could) go back to a pre-digital economy in which corporations are infinitely more powerful than consumers, we do need to discover a better balance between the almost instant destruction of today's digital marketplace and a consumer culture which is more forgiving of corporate screw-ups.
But at the other end of the line, there is fear, a loss of control, helplessness, and hatred -- precisely because that unseen hand has made me afraid, has the power to bring instant death and destruction, and has rendered me helpless.
It's easy to see how, in an age of instant mass destruction, a gap could arise between what people see themselves as doing and the harm they are able to do.
As for the imagery associated with modern ruins, there is such a lot of it — and it, too, proliferates so relentlessly throughout our millions of digital cameras — that we must conceive of it as precisely that city-size photograph "taken" of Hiroshima by Little Boy's fireball at the very instant of the city's destruction.
In an interesting coincidence, last month marked the 10-year anniversary of the last time my life felt this chaotic - when my mom died suddenly of cancer at the age of 62. From diagnosis to her passing was less than two weeks - the swiftness giving it the shocking impact of a car accident: total destruction in an instant.
