Sentence examples for self-slaughter from inspiring English sources

Not self-slaughter in the crude sense.

(Presumably, self-slaughter would not get him back).

Whatever else it was, this was no noble self-slaughter.

Much of the novel amounts to a sort of dossier on the phenomenon of self-slaughter.

This is absurd, and it is dangerous because it creates the kind of melodramatic hysteria that leads to self-slaughter.

It turns out, as in Pirandello, to be a harrowing saga involving incest, drowning and self-slaughter.

When Porter and Vann appealed to Harkins to stop this self-defeating slaughter, he turned out to be just as dense in his way as the Saigon commanders were in theirs.

Even the individual stories are not always clearly plotted: I was never sure whether a Danish soldier's self-willed slaughter was dictated by his revulsion at the war, or his victimisation by a sadistic superior.

The sad plight of grown white men, crouching beneath their (better) selves, to slaughter the innocent during traffic stops, to push black women's faces into the dirt, to handcuff black children.

In one school paper he said other children "mocked and slaughtered my self-esteem".

Although it ends with vindication and fame, rather than with slaughter and self-knowledge, it was resolved by language, too — by inner soliloquy forcing itself out into the world, except that in this case the inner voice had the certainties and the outer one the hesitations.