How To Use Self-destruct In A Sentence

At one point a couple of years ago, he says, he thought about ending it all, going out after one last amazing, self-destructive bender.
What are the possibilities and risks of according spirituality some therapeutic value for those on the edge of the abyss of self-destruction?
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.
When it comes to playing debased, self-destructive women, Leigh is the best actress in Hollywood.
The technique uses a magnetic field which causes old, faulty or infected cells to cluster together and self-destruct. The Sun

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If it gets old it just self-destructs and renews.
The second is the reckless, destructive and self-destructive way we humans manage the planet. Times, Sunday Times
We hit the self-destruct button. The Sun
What if the very ‘fact’ of progress is ultimately self-destructive?
Shakespeare has established that Mercutio is a rather dirty-minded young rogue, cynical about love and sex, and inclined to find ways to ridicule and embarrass everyone he deals with, including his best friends, when he thinks they're being foolish or self-destructive or pursuing pleasures that don't include Mercutio. Did Viola, Rosalind, and Portia wax?
It drives him to self-destructive behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Before then, we are inclined to believe only hip jazz musicians and self-destructive beat poets did dope.
Food obsession falls under the form of self-sabotage I call compulsive self-sabotage, the hardest kind of self-destruction to shake. The Truth About Beauty
Leading while feeling stagnant and sluggish are sure ways to self-destruct in ministry. Christianity Today
When they exposed cancer cells to these phytonutrients, the cells self-destructed technically, such self-destruction is called apoptosis. The Fiber35 Diet
Winning the election required no concrete proposals, as his opponent's campaign self-destructed when candidate George Allen used a scatalogical term ( "macaca") to refer to a reporter with Arabic facial features. James Webb's Macaca, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
One sibling's hard-partying, self-destructive lifestyle makes the other despair, but the pair are making too much money to cut each other off completely.
A significant subpopulation of participants in the study showed a strong disposition to engage in antisocial behavior, including irrational and self-destructive violence.
The same problem has also surfaced in England, where it has been said that the notion is finally self-destructing, since all decisions must be reconciled in attempting harmonious statements of law.
They are 'self-people': self-possessed, self-preoccupied, self-loving — and ultimately, self-destructive. Times, Sunday Times
If her stepfather goes on helping her out he is colluding in her self-destructive behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
- or, like the mastodon 's huge tusks: a heavy, useless and ultimately self-destructive burden? THE DICE MAN
This type of jam will also supply the supernutrient ellagic acid, shown to cause cancer cells to self-destruct. Times, Sunday Times
According to the rules that drive this particular fetish, anything short of self-destruction is just going through the motions.
The immune system of sensitive people interprets these parts of ovalbumin to be a threat, and mounts a massive and self-destructive defense that can take the form of fatal shock. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Sometimes this belief is buried and unacknowledged, perhaps showing itself in self-destructive ways. Growing Through Loss and Grief
Many students overlook the fact that self-destructive behaviors such as overindulgence in alcohol or caffeine, drug abuse, and ignoring signs of fatigue are manifestations of self-violence. American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated
He serves as her obligatory romantic interest, the guy who saves her from self-destruction.
A maverick, a man described as a self-destructive genius, who battled heroin addiction, endured turbulent relationships with his band members but whose fast living saw his candle burn out so young at just 44. The Australian | News
He is rebellious, aggressive and at times self-destructive.
He had a reckless, self-destructive streak.
Although it made great copy for the newspapers, it suggested the Rocket was in bad-tempered mode - and some felt he might be about to self-destruct.
The world's top golfers all pressed the self-destruct button as they completed a third round delayed by the threat of thunderstorms. The Sun
The tape explained that it would self-destruct in 40 seconds.
The time will soon come; grief and famine have already sapped the foundations of my being; a very short time, and I shall have passed away; unstained by the crime of self-destruction, unstung by the memory of degradation, my spirit will throw aside the miserable coil, and find such recompense as fortitude and resignation may deserve. The Last Man
It enables users to send picture and video messages that self-destruct within ten seconds, adding special effects and filters. Times, Sunday Times
Collision He's making me out to be some sort of thick, brainless loony on a self-destruct road to ruin.
This wayward thinking has led us down the “more is better” path of self-absorption and, for some, self-destruction. Lighten Up
Bodies speak their distress in physical ill health, mental distress, and self-destructive behaviour.
Full of self-loathing, she became self-destructive and promiscuous.
I see a strong push across the planet toward several self-destructive avenues: racism, jingoism, religious fanaticism and monopolism are all roads to separation and alienation. Archive 2005-06-01
Always clowning around, teasing girls, and getting into scraps with others, he's heading for self-destruction.
This tape will self-destruct in 30 seconds.
He emerged from his fast a changed man, free of asthma, rheumatism, and self-destructive thoughts, and he embarked on a new career as a lecturer, touting the restorative power of fasting.
His mother on discovering this note pinned to her chair gave way to very natural alarm and rushed upstairs to her darling, with whom she remonstrated in terms deservedly severe, pointing out the folly and wickedness of self-destruction and urging that such thoughts were unfit for one of his tender years, for he was then barely thirteen. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
This excerpt covers the two most important, lack of time and self-destructive group behaviour.
Their unreasoning hostility and violence is merely a psychological projection of our own self-destructive impulses.
They've been chosen as subjects because they whirl around in a chaos of self-destruction. Times, Sunday Times
In this age group, nonclassic symptoms such as aggression or risk-taking/self-destructive behaviors may be as common as anhedonia, sleep disturbance, fatigue or concentration problems.
His protagonists, with few exceptions, are driven to self-destruction or weakened to the point of being destroyed.
Working at a hostel, one gets used to bold comments about violence and self-destruction from the homeless. STUART: A Life Backwards
Enough already with this wilful self-destruction by our supposedly virtuous childhood icons. The Sun
Auber's Manon Lescaut reworks Prévost's novel about the nymphet who hurtles to self-destruction when love comes into conflict with her yearning for the high life, which can only be purchased with her body.
This will self-destruct in five seconds. The Sun
He stopped scouring the floor and looked up at me, ‘Amazingly, cleaning helps me get my mind off of being self-destructive.’
It suits an artist of immense gifts way better than self-destruction.
When I say that the U.S. financial sector is currently self-destructing, I say this with earnestness.
His behaviour was seriously self-destructive and risks bringing down his whole family with him. The Sun
For critics for whom 'reason' is always partisan and coercive, such an aspiration must seem perversely self-destructive.
They've been chosen as subjects because they whirl around in a chaos of self-destruction. Times, Sunday Times
They understand where she is coming from but also have made the transition into wanting to stop their self-destructive behaviour and so are positive role models. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Yet when the logic self-destructed in practice, conservatives were remarkably content, since they had delivered the boodle to the right clients.
In effect, pursuing the American Dream leads to his self-destruction.
It's an unblinking portrayal of a self-destructing relationship, and one which anchors much of the second half of the album.
Then, without warning, you've got the world's number one goalkeeper in self-destruct mode, the England captain glancing an own goal home and a seemingly impregnable lead overturned.
Do you find consolation in prayer and aspiration, and holy self-destruction here, at the twelfth station?
The machine will self-destruct if you tamper with it
When your opponent is self-destructing, keep your mouth shut.
Moreover, he says, it looks as if African nationalism is bent on the same self-destructive trajectory as its predecessor.
Can it avoid self-destruction caused by the strong ideological differences among its moderate and its more radical factions?
Full of self-loathing, she became self-destructive and promiscuous.
No acting career has self-destructed quite as quickly as did this former golden girl's.
If the missile loses the laser beam or if no guidance signals are received after a predetermined period of time during missile flight the missile switches to self-destruct mode.
We should learn how to be more “self-controlled” and be able to see the Goods and Bad, so as to avoid more chaos and self-destruction Global Voices in English » Jackie Chan: Chinese need control
London deserves a base that will self-destruct in ten minutes. Times, Sunday Times
It was playground pettiness, grotesquely selfish folly that was not only self-destructive but bound to do serious damage to the interests of his team.
Throughout the poem, the mother constantly attempts to quell and quiet Jim's desire, reading that desire as potentially self-destructive.
Irresistible forces seemed to compel Gates's rivals, driving them toward self-destruction.
Right from the opening games of the opening set, he looked almost self-destructive the way he let chances pass him by. The Sun
Why an out-of-power party would choose to unilaterally self-destruct is beyond me. Top GOP strategist calls for Steele to step down
Even before he stepped on the self-indulgent, self-destructive merry-go-round of birds and booze, bankruptcy and jail.
I'm just relieved that the Republican dynasty is self-destructing after 30 years .... we'll see this November if the witch is really Ding Dong Dead! Barbour: Obama, Congress 'the most liberal' ever
When it realised that you had listened to this music enough times, the tape self-destructed.
From that point, it took maybe 36 hours for me to return to a full-blown self-destructive pack-a-day habit. Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Smoking
And self-destructive behavior carried out in secret generally goes unnoticed. Trauma and Recovery
And they were in similar self-destruct mode again. The Sun
If the self-destructive urge to have one more pointless leadership change were not enough there are now influential voices calling for the disbanding of the party.
The missile flew for several minutes but an internal defect led to a self-destruct.
I could then resume my life of genteel professorial poverty and quiet self-destruction. DOUBTING THOMAS
An obsessive, odd person apparently self-destructed. Obama sends condolences to Jackson's family, says Gibbs
The bulk of the first half of the film concerns Jack Magnus's introduction to drugs and his downward spiral into self-destructive addiction.
Even with their pulsating white hot Bush-loathing bonding them together like crayons left on a stove over Thanksgiving Day, the hair trigger self-destructo possibilities are endless. Will Durst: Kvetching and Convening
Even if I had achieved some of the worldly fruits of living, they would self-destruct at some point.
This went on to cause no end of grief for her Mum and a downward spiral of self-destruction for this confused young teen.
This acquisition will self-destruct in five seconds. Times, Sunday Times
Obama, with his characteristic tone of bridge-building and moderation, may hope the gods will smile on him and the Republican Party will self-destruct while he holds the reasonable high ground. Robert Kuttner: From Depression to Public Inspiration
However, when it comes to self-destruction any car combined with a hard-core muscle car mentality will eventually lead to a dead end.
ARSENAL are finding new ways of hitting the self-destruct button and throwing matches down the drain. The Sun
: Belgium's self-destructive politics the Belgium I know is a laid-back, relaxed place with a well-developed sense of humour about itself. Belgium as seen by Charlemagne
I wonder if you wouldn't find a self-destruct timer inside the beastly things if you knew where to look.
his insistence was pure self-destruction
PARK CITY, Utah - If you watch "Californication," you know that Hank Moody is the definition of self-destructive. ABC News: Top Stories
They are hardly likely to sit back and watch as the game to which they are guardians self-destructs.
With a wry self-deprecating humour that stops her from coming across as self-aggrandising, GIlbert roots the trope of the tortured artist in this, asks if maybe this is a cause for all those suicides and self-destructions. Genius in a Bottle
In the last half-hour of the movie the plot rapidly self-destructs.
Lighting up showed defiance, depression, anti-social or self-destructive behaviour, humour and, in at least one case, great irony.
Hearing Chip admit he’s fuelling Colin’s ego for an inevitable self-destruct is great and makes me pull even more for that team. TV Round-Up « Michael in Nashville
The technique uses a magnetic field which causes old, faulty or infected cells to cluster together and self-destruct. The Sun
Was there ever any point where Hicks seemed self-destructive?
The real issue is how you can stop this self-destructive behaviour. The Sun
And with the players in full self-destruct mode, who knows what can happen in the final weeks of the season. The Sun
This makes them 'sputter' with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction. The Vast Left-Wing Media Conspiracy
It might even explain the insomniac tendencies - that tends only to happen when I'm on a path of self-destruction.
Standard Romulan procedure would have been to decommission emplaced weapons by self-destruction, Worf went on. Star Trek The Next Generation®
If it does, the third album - which will be delayed three years while the band self-destructs - will feature a gatefold cover, lyrics printed on the sleeve, and perhaps custom art on the record label.
The refusal of the latter to give him their consistent support was due as much to his self-destructive hedonism as to his political opportunism. The Times Literary Supplement
To do that, he says, scientists must understand how a cell self-destructs, which means understanding how mitochondria send out signals that kill cells as well as energize them.
In a scene of utter and complete stupidity, totally unrealistic and outside the honesty and accuracy previously depicted, the movie just self-destructs.
An investigation is underway after a missile self-destructed shortly after it was launched.
They want to send photos with a sepia tint or messages that self-destruct, but not all in one place. Times, Sunday Times
And of course they both pressed the self-destruct button when it all became too much. The Sun
When reporters interview me about press controversies, I'm frank to the point of self-destruction.
An investigation is underway after a missile self-destructed shortly after it was launched.
They've been chosen as subjects because they whirl around in a chaos of self-destruction. Times, Sunday Times
To retreat into a fossilized Irish past that no longer fits Irish reality is self-destructive.
January 3rd, 2009 at 6: 36 pm there is something to be said for there being significant financial ramifications for high health care cost behavior (e.g. smoking, obesity) to reimburse the government for your self-destructive behavior the rest of us are going to have to pay for. Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Smoking
Is it possible to capture a reader with the tale of two unappealing, selfish and self-destructive characters?
One lesson in particular that we have internalized is that the turn to radicalism in the late 1960s, while perhaps understandable given the implacability of powerholders and their continued resistance to change, nonetheless was a self-destructive tangent from which many on the left have yet to return. March « 2008 « Bill Ayers
I don't take any pleasure in America's self-destruction, currently being helped along by Democrats. Matt Taibbi reports from Wonderland, his favorite beat
But upon reacting with the drug, the enzyme inadvertently triggers the release and activation of the bactericide triclosan, concealed within NB2001, causing the bacteria to self-destruct.
I'd gone to Australia for the final act, thrown myself into the requisite lusty self-destruction, the absence of care.
Paul Schrader has made a career out of exploring the darker side of the human psyche, of exposing obsessive characters who seem hell-bent on self-destruction.
She flawlessly depicts a girl on the edge whose rebellion, in overdrive, is fueling self-destructive behavior.
I have to be careful not to throw the self-destruct switch when I get in a mood like this, wallowing in a pit of self-pity.
Indeed, since taking the advice to "attune their sensitivities better to the fine-grain of everyday life" and make books safe for reading "five or ten minutes at a clip, non-commitally" is the most idiotic and self-destructive thing publishers could do, they no doubt will do it, with great dispatch. Writing and Publishing
It starred Russell Crowe as a young skinhead on a path of self-destruction, though his ideals blind him to the damage he is doing to himself.
By then our four European clubs should, barring any self-destructive bunglings, still be in their respective competitions.
In the last half-hour of the movie the plot rapidly self-destructs.
While he's crucial to the survival of the paper, his self-destructive tendencies and his cynicism destroy him.
Leading while feeling stagnant and sluggish are sure ways to self-destruct in ministry. Christianity Today
A young man and would-be dancer who comes to New York from small-town Ohio and is bewildered by the city's intensity and fakery, and rediscovers his passion in a tragic act of self-destruction.
This behavior was downright self-destructive, but that was his choice. Understanding Cancer
At work, I am confronted with students engaged in every form of self-destruction, from frittering away their time on footling hedonism, to literal self-laceration and suicide attempts.
In the process he drove himself to exhaustion, and began a tragic descent into paranoia and self-destruction.
Passion's dialectical opposite, self-destruction, runs rampant during these years of his life.
But here is proof she has pressed the self-destruct button. The Sun
Yeah, but the Tafts seem to have self-destructed quite wonderfully. Matthew Yglesias » The Bush Family Stamping on a Human Face Forever
Self-destructive treason and the haunting discourse of amphibology reduce the play to the strutting and fretting of a poor player upon the stage of political battle, ultimately, in its amphibolic circularity, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.
This portrait of self-destruction is told through the contrast of two singing sisters, one famous and one notorious.
English employs reflexive derivation idiosyncratically, as in "self-destruct"; Romance languages do the same with the Greek-derived prefix auto -. Page 2
I love her but her self-destructive behaviour is destroying me. The Sun
If there is even a suspicion of truth in tributes which have, to the last eulogist, declared the sublime, apple-tumescing appeal of a plump, lustful, self-destructive alcoholic, whose excesses make top femme fatale Angelina Jolie look like a much tattooed Milly-Molly-Mandy, you have to wonder if blanched, gristly diet victims along Renée Zellweger's lines really represent any kind of shared ideal. The strange case of Liz Taylor as a 'real woman' role model | Catherine Bennett
As with many great artists, Pollock was an undiagnosed manic-depressive whose life was characterized by periods of self-destructive binges followed by giddy bouts of joy and creativity.
Suggest she talk with an understanding counsellor about why she's into this self-destructive behaviour. The Sun
Indeed, its dramatic argument is that such a personality either abstracts itself out of existence or falls into contradiction and self-destructs.
He'd self-destructed with an alcohol problem, he explained, and had turned out a number of turkeys while on the sauce.
No country that has ever stood against Israel has survived ... not one ... and if Comrade Obama goes against Israel the the USA will self-destruct under the "grossest" liberalism the world has ever seen. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
For others, though, it's a dreaded nightmare of confrontation and recrimination, self-destructive despair and passive-aggressive treachery.
He could give in, give up, and become like Charlie, and at least enjoy his self-destruction. The First Virtual I Hate Robert Altman Film Festival begins with a movie about a man who hates himself
Ancient Athens emerged from tyranny for about 100 years and then self-destructed and the Roman republic was never more than an oligarchy until it too became an empire.
On this service they are erased about 30 seconds after being sent and will self-destruct after being read. Times, Sunday Times
He was the classic, self-destructive nihilist.
A series of masterpieces followed, stories of male mortification leading to self-destruction.
When Flint's creation self-destructs, he relents.
I'm just committed to extirpating self-destructive and destructive passions (in myself first of all obv).
United hit the self-destruct button by conceding two penalties. The Sun
Double poked through my crispy shell at the sadness that had fuelled an adult life full of self-destructive behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Where do you think he has learned his self-destructive behaviour? The Sun
It is when a case goes pathological that it may become well-known, as in the cyclical antievolution of the Kansas state school board, the long-term antievolution advocacy of the Tangipahoa Parish school board, or the spectacular self-destruction of the Dover Area School District. The Panda's Thumb: Wesley R. Elsberry Archives
Mr. NORTON: It came out of one of these guys telling us that he had self-destructed in a parole interview and tried to walk out of the room. Edward Norton, Hard Again As 'Stone'
It's only a matter of time before she goes and spoils it all with an act of self-destructive petulance or a complete misreading of a perfectly innocent situation.
In - evitably, almost self-destructively, she tested her mother to make sure. Honeymoon
But given our current capacity for total self-destruction, we cannot afford to wait for another global war to restore our will to make the world better again. Times, Sunday Times
The appetitive urge or craving to engage in an ultimately self-destructive behavior represents both a central feature of addiction and an important target for clinical intervention.
Bender gets hooked on electricity, and Fry and the gang worry that he's on a downward spiral toward self-destruction.
Other corporate labels distort classical definitions to the point of mutual self-destruction.
“Yeah, but the Tafts seem to have self-destructed quite wonderfully.” Matthew Yglesias » The Bush Family Stamping on a Human Face Forever
The result was exactly what I was going for - a moist, yet sturdy crumb, a flat top and it didn't self-destruct when I went to unmould it! A Whole New Meaning
Any change now would be pressing the self-destruct button. The Sun
When does the inertia of self-neglect shade into the dynamic of self-destruction?
She is eager to please her lost father, to the point of self-destruction.
The former high-flying conglomerate had spent most of the 1990s self-destructing.
Are we in what Marx described as the self-destruction of finance-dominated advanced Capitalism? The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
He wanted Jill to give up her life of alcohol and self-destruction.
Cartels may self-destruct, but will in most cases be less efficient than mergers.
This round is fuzed with the M758 Point Detonating Self-Destruct fuze, developed and produced exclusively by Alliant Techsystems.
The Romantics turned self-destruction into a literary convention, further weakening the stigma attached to the act.
Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance star as a couple whose wordless, adulterous affair descends into paranoia and self-destruction.
McIlroy, looking confident, held a four-stroke lead heading into Sunday's final round but self-destructed on the back nine. Why 2011 Was a Good Year for Golf
It could self-destruct, and it is doing little at the moment to help itself.
He mistrusted humanity's capacity to save or significantly improve itself, and was pretty certain that our civilization would self-destruct.
But after his release he hit the self-destruct button again. The Sun
Once possessed by their celebrity demons, they become solitary, anti-social, impulsive and even self-destructive.
Indeed, since taking the advice to "attune their sensitivities better to the fine-grain of everyday life" and make books safe for reading "five or ten minutes at a clip, non-commitally" is the most idiotic and self-destructive thing publishers could do, they no doubt will do it, with great dispatch. Writing and Publishing
It clearly says on it that it will self-destruct some time after you unseal the package.
Users become paranoid, incoherent and both destructive and pathetically self-destructive. Times, Sunday Times
In cancer cells, the signals to self-destruct stop working and uncontrolled growth occurs. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, a welfare-department worker might do harm even beyond providing money to fuel self-destructive behavior.
Before then, we are inclined to believe only hip jazz musicians and self-destructive beat poets did dope.

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