Sentence examples for it self-destructed from inspiring English sources

Communism, in Baudrillard's reading, collapsed of its own inertia, it self-destructed from within, it imploded, rather than perishing in ideological battle or military warfare.

They then triggered ground- and space-based telescopes to observe the event approximately 5.7 hours and 15 hours after it self-destructed.

By the time the movie has huffed and puffed toward a bogus, anticlimactic redemption, it has self-destructed and left the mosh pit littered with corpses.

But the truth is, even if "The X-Files" hadn't self-destructed, it still would have been pushed into irrelevance by the events of Sept. 11.

But I thought we self-destructed". It's been that way much of 1986.

One missed its target, but self-destructed two minutes before the jetliner vanished from air controllers' screens, said Oleksandr Kuzmuk, Ukraine's defense minister.

His Republican opponent for the Illinois Senate seat, Jack Ryan, self-destructed when it was revealed that he forced his wife to attend sex clubs "with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling".

That was not quite as awful for Theresa May as the "nothing has changed" general election presser where she had to rewrite her election manifesto after the "dementia tax" self-destructed, but it was not far off.

Now her candidacy seems to have self-destructed even before it was officially launched, and the charismatic colonel has overtaken her.

When he took over the national team in 1994, the squad had just been through a divisive experience at the World Cup in which it had started brilliantly and then self-destructed after Maradona tested positive for the ephedrine, a banned substance sometimes used as a stimulant, and was suspended from the tournament.

The theme was inspired by the work of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925-91), remembered for his "Homage to New York," a kinetic sculpture that was designed to simultaneously create and destroy paintings, and that prematurely self-destructed at its 1960 Museum of Modern Art debut.