Instead of being destroyed, Ballard's characters are liberated by catastrophe.
"It is in the process of being destroyed.
These are just a few of the monuments at risk of being destroyed by militants.
Earth is on the verge of being destroyed, but then isn't it always?
But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.
The makeshift village of 96 families, around since the 1960s, faces the imminent threat of being destroyed.
"He was within 12 hours of being destroyed when Emily snapped a photo of him and attached it to an e-mail.
Before home video, archives of Kovacs's work were in danger of being destroyed until his widow and right-hand comic, Edie Adams, took steps to conserve his legacy.
Each year the trust selects what it considers important examples of the nation's architectural, cultural and natural heritage that are at risk of being destroyed or irreparably damaged.
In this view, which finds its echo in Romney's observation, a democratic country is a precarious one, always at risk of being destroyed by its least productive citizens.
And while virtual worlds like Ms. Cao's can become "a pure, virtual utopia, they still face the constant threat of being destroyed by hackers," she said.
