Sentence examples for quite destroyed from inspiring English sources

It was an effort so enormous it quite destroyed his health.

"Obviously, the Angel is quite destroyed in the show — she is glorious and decrepit at the same time," Caldwell said.

According to Cutt, Sherwood's depictions of India were among the few available to young British readers; such children "acquired a strong conviction of the rightness of missions, which, while it inculcated sincere concern for, and a genuine kindness towards an alien people for whom Britain was responsible, quite destroyed any latent respect for Indian tradition".

Well, it's not quite destroyed but it is certainly out of office.

The cells of the past, recyled, reused, never quite destroyed, are real rather than haunting presences throughout A Possible Life.

The iron we could not quite destroy will serve destruction yet.

Played by a nonprofessional actor named George Pistereanu, whose sensitive eyes soften his impassive, bullish physical presence, Silviu is at the end of a childhood that has hardened him without quite destroying his humanity.

I begin to suspect that the great trouble and anxiety of Southern gentlemen is: How, without quite destroying the capabilities of the negro for any work at all, to prevent him from learning to take care of himself.

There are ones like security, audio guides, the garden, ticket sales and the shop: all different but similarly menial, chipping away at the soul without ever quite destroying it.

Harmison pitches it up and is quite simply destroyed back down the ground for four.

When the truth came out, it was a huge scandal; Glass's journalism career was, quite properly, destroyed.