Sentence examples for violent breakdown from inspiring English sources

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The stresses endured by this hard-working man seemed sufficient to account for his violent breakdown.

He had a violent breakdown that November that landed him at the Harvard infirmary, sedated for three days.

He also predicts that mass immigration from poor countries is incompatible with the welfare state too many newcomers will bankrupt it.Some outsiders look at America's great multi-ethnic experiment and see a society teetering on the brink of violent breakdown.

And then there was one they could not agree on: "Falling Down," the 1993 film starring Michael Douglas as a downsized defense-industry engineer who has a violent breakdown in Los Angeles.

As one story line pays off – in a climax of passion or a violent breakdown – others must steadily build, in a cycle that will go on until the whole show ends, all passion spent, the last handbell rung.

The late great French theorist René Girard cites Ulysses's address in his Theater of Envy as "a meditation on the violent breakdown of human society in general, the undoing of the cultural order" – yet he didn't find much to suit his purposes in the history plays.

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My parents divorced when I was 3, not long after my father suffered a violent psychotic breakdown.

We were already excited about Queen Of Earth, a thriller in which Elisabeth Moss plays a woman succumbing to a violent emotional breakdown, but now we've seen the 70s horror-tinged trailer and we're really excited.

It has had problems involving the denial of care to National Guardsmen and with "separate violent mental breakdowns" on the part of three returning veterans attached to the base; one incident devolved into a fatal shootout in Salt Lake City.

But three blights on black America have proved persistent: violent crime, family breakdown and a failure by black children to fulfil their academic potential.Crime doesn't pay"If you were black," said the cabdriver, "I wouldn't take you there.

"People who don't know these sports very well think their fans must be these kind of crazed, people-on-the-verge-of-a-breakdown, violent kind of thing," he said.

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