destructiveness
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The play is often seen as a moralizing critique of the pernicious destructiveness of capitalism, the soul-destroying “rat race” that Willy Loman so resoundingly loses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Magnitude is far from a complete measure of a specific quake’s destructiveness.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
Ms Pollack, the Cornell president, said in a statement on Sunday: "The virulence and destructiveness of antisemitism is real and deeply impacting our Jewish students, faculty and staff, as well as the entire Cornell community."
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2023
And so the question was: When we have the capacity for both of these things, what has pulled so much of so-called civilization toward destructiveness?
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023
Eventually, all three students would quarrel fiercely, unleashing a cycle of envy and destructiveness that would blaze through the discipline of genetics.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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