destructiveness

How To Use destructiveness In A Sentence

• Having browsed through this book, you've probably realized that despite the noise, stink, stupidity and self-destructiveness of Planet Earth, it's not a bad place to vacation.
• The pictures, dramatically arrayed on the walls according to their distance from Hiroshima's Ground Zero, show landscapes of burned-over rubble, concrete and steel buildings reduced to etiolated skeletons, and close-ups of flash burns and other interesting evidence of the awesome destructiveness of the bomb. Tragedy and Comedy of Life
• Uncle Davy must have had the organ of "destructiveness" pretty fully developed, for fowls, as well as "animils" and "sarpunts," were "smashed up" by him, as may be gathered from Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
• His rebel army was dispersed, and Panamá City and Portobelo were saved, but because of the destructiveness of the rebellion the Darién was forever lost to Spain. The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Dari
• The "mild" cases showed a group of symptoms which might be termed contra-environmental, viz. allopsychic delusions, sicchasia (refusal of food), resistiveness, violence, destructiveness. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
• It is said that the organ of carving upon wood is prominently developed on all English skulls; and the sagacious Mr. Combe has placed this organ at the back of the head, in juxtaposition to that of destructiveness, which is equally large among our countrymen, as is notably evinced upon all railings, seats, temples, and other things-belonging to other people. Paul Clifford — Complete
• This riveting drama speaks to our souls with its incessant probes into the importance of human choice and the degradations brought on by self-destructiveness.
• In her character, what phrenologists call "destructiveness," in the comprehensive sense of the word, was superlatively developed. Lucretia — Volume 02
• destructiveness" to upset one's mental equilibrium. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
• Extreme caution or prudence, the soundest organic health, large hope and comparison and fondness for women and children, large alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality, with a perfect sense of the oneness of nature, and the propriety of the same spirit applied to human affairs -- these are called up of the float of the brain of the world to be parts of the greatest poet from his birth. Poems By Walt Whitman