Sentence examples for programmed for self-destruction from inspiring English sources

And as the very twisted course of love (which may be only lust) wends its way through the small Southern river town where propriety still rules, you see how many of Williams's central themes and poetic obsessions were already in place: the call of the flesh, the role of the pariah, the fear of madness, the well-born wild girl programmed for self-destruction.

Researchers breed a strain of male Aedes with a single modified gene, which programs its offspring for self-destruction.

England's capacity for self-destruction should never be underestimated.

If Smith could match Wilson's capacity for self-destruction, he was no equal in grandiosity.

Today the dollar is hobbled not only by Washington's appetite for self-destruction.

We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction".

Pakistan's capacity for self-destruction was most apparent in the role of its captain, Shahid Afridi.

A gifted therapist helped Forrest overcome her bent for self-destruction.

No regime, whatever its rhetoric, has any desire for self-destruction.

But Schalke's "appetite for self-destruction" (Der Spiegel) proved much bigger than Bayer's.

There were youths with a capacity for self-destruction, and those who wanted to party.