Sentence examples for slow ruin from inspiring English sources

The play centers on a despotic madman who has overseen the slow ruin of his once formidable kingdom.

The instinct to memorialize one's loves is not peculiar to nonagenarian rakes; in the slow ruin of life, such memory reverses the current for a moment and silences the voice that murmurs in our narrator's ear, "No matter what you do, this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever".

Rather, it is as if the details on the page have made the slow ruin of Budapest real again — as if "the delirium of this siege,... the constant fear, the boredom, waiting on the clock, the slow erasure of affection" is still unfolding.

In practice, the zooming and refocusing are so slow, they ruin many a shot.

Pilkington stated to the GAO that, "the shootdown pilots' haste was due in part to the planned entry of two F-16s into the TAOR 10 to 15 minutes after the F-15s and that if the F-15 pilots had involved the chain of command, the pace would have slowed down, ruining the pilots' chances for a shootdown".

Many of Long Island's leaders have warned that it is heading steadily down a long, slow road to ruin.

As Paul and Mae grow invisible to the others, like ghosts, bitter and despised, the second plot uncoils: the slow, tragic, inevitable ruin of their marriage.

Yong's imperial Korea, like Laclos's pre-revolutionary France, is close to cataclysm, the decadence of the characters and their slow glide towards ruin a manifestation of wider political crisis.

These misquotes (and outright inventions) include comments about Jay Gould ("It never pays to kick a skunk"), the law ("Law? What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?"), and his steamship rivals Charles Morgan and Cornelius Garrison ("Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you".).

A bad oyster or slow service can ruin not only a meal but also, far worse, a business relationship.

After a slow voyage through ruins, the two men found themselves in a claustrophobic space under a bridge, as plague-spreading enemies dropped down from above.