Sentence examples for prove destructive from inspiring English sources

But the fame would prove destructive.

His traumatic past has left a crack in his personality that will ultimately prove destructive.

"The deep unflinching knowledge of anything will in the end prove destructive," Sontag says, summing up Bergman's idea.

They invested billions in an industry knowing it would prove destructive to the air, water, climate, and health of Albertans?

Her oppositional view of "the system" as an enemy rather than a mode of collective defense suggests a sort of countertransference, an identification with the desires of her patient, whose desires — due to his illness — may well prove destructive.

Besides this, when the intending of one thing, and pretending of another, was by me a thousand times foretold to prove destructive unto Scotland, and that the cause of God could not produce Diabolical effects : Your holiness, amongst the Zelots of the Nation, did give way to beleeve the truth of both.

However, for patients, these swings have often proved destructive and limiting.

Individual players operating by the rules of the jungle come to realize that this is proving destructive to all.

Although, in fact, fervid nationalism often proved destructive, Mazzini advocated a united Europe of free peoples, in which national singularities would be transcended in a pan-European harmony.

It's not all bad; the action evokes a sad and touching portrait perhaps a self-portrait of an elderly man in self-portrait ofnces, whose bankelderlys flare up with a force that ultimanely proves destructine (or perhapstaticn't).

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for leadership studies at the Yale School of Management, says Warren is right that so-called short-termism has proved destructive for the country's biggest public companies.