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

How do these organizations reflect this belief and reveal its destructiveness?

From Salon • May 26, 2025

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

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