Sentence examples for tragically destructive from inspiring English sources

Seeing war as a tragically destructive form of information discovery makes Hanson think differently about peace.

But when Truffaut, the youngest of the New Wave directors, sought to reconsider French history and culture in the light of his own experience, Moreau was his heroine of free-spirited inventiveness, of freedom tout court, and of the tragically destructive (and self-destructive) passions that came with it.

The alternative, she warns, is perpetual adolescence and superficiality – a condition that will have a tragically destructive impact on both our intimate relationships and upon our democracy.

The most tragically self-destructive is that of Obama's own father, who dazzled people in Africa and America with his intelligence and eloquence but ruined other lives and finally his own with his irresponsibility.

Mr Johnson, who defeated Labour's Ken Livingstone by six points last night to become mayor, said that the number one issue facing London was the "tragically self-destructive" behaviour of some of its young children.

Rather, it stems from the destructive, tragically violent, racist, and wildly expensive war on drugs that -- on top of everything -- is ineffective.

A mix of social realism and fairy tale, the play portrays dozens of people in an imaginary urban neighborhood who are hounded -- comically, tragically, unpredictably -- by destructive social forces and their own vices.

If it does, we'll be a lot closer to answering "why" so many men commit acts of violence -- on a small and large scale, against themselves and others -- in the process of enacting a tragically truncated, distorted and destructive vision of manhood.

Tragically, many governments are planning big, destructive dams in biodiversity hotspots.

Tragically, the human race continues to prove that destructive cultural values such as prejudice and racism still dominate the majority of societies around the world, as proven by never-ending wars and social atrocities we are still experiencing with no end in sight.

The massive December 26 , 2004tsunami that devastated coastal areas along the Indian Ocean caused particularly extensive damage in northern Sumatra, where destructive waves traveled more than five kilometers inland and tragically killed well over 100,000 area residents.