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
His capacity for self-restraint is becoming a thinner veneer over fundamental destructiveness.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2024
Yet the theme persists, from the singular destructiveness of the kaiju to the way that people onscreen watch their rampages through televisions and the Internet, observers of the existential changes upending the world.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023
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
The prospect of a general and permanent lowering of environmental resistance becomes grimly and increasingly real with each passing year as the number, variety, and destructiveness of insecticides grows.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
