And Maud's, face brightened; for destructiveness is one of the earliest traits of childhood, and ripping was Maud's delight. From Wordnik.com. [An Old-Fashioned Girl] Reference
All this destructiveness is a way of having fun. From Wordnik.com. [Anglican Church of Canada is hawking the silverware « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
This kind of destructiveness is a false passage into a world of pseudo-communication. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade Psychiatrist's Story]
In her character, what phrenologists call "destructiveness," in the comprehensive sense of the word, was superlatively developed. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia — Complete] Reference
"destructiveness" to upset one's mental equilibrium. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Astronomer] Reference
'destructiveness' and 'capacity to generate negativity within the Executive'. From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
But ours has something else they fear: destructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Memory of Mars] Reference
But the Administration's destructiveness doesn't stop here. From Wordnik.com. [Fact And Comment] Reference
The destructiveness of squirrels and wild mice, pages 296-297. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
The GOP's self-destructiveness is now rivaling the president's. From Wordnik.com. [Shutting Up About Sex] Reference
Others, I have observed, when irritated, pass the hand over destructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Give a brief account of its destructiveness in the orchards of Essex and Kent. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Seldom has the frightful destructiveness of war been more strikingly illustrated. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
Its very destructiveness should tend to shorten the duration of this terrible war. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914] Reference
The progress of science has much increased the potential destructiveness of warfare. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
Moreover, but little was known of the range and destructiveness of anti-aircraft guns. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
This is the essential principle of the system, giving it its power and destructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South] Reference
The pictures 'vibrant colors gold, black, crimson dramatize the destructiveness of fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Medium of Memory] Reference
Might lay down at night sound en wake up in de mornin en find us all in destructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2] Reference
Armed conflict in the industrial age reached new heights of lethality and destructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Bacevich: The End of (Military) History? The United States, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War] Reference
I'm trying to find the societal destructiveness in those words and I am just not seeing it. From Wordnik.com. [Is Jennifer Aniston really destructive to our society?] Reference
But is their combination of ambition and self-destructiveness the only road to the pantheon?. From Wordnik.com. [Tortured Souls] Reference
Of the tremendous inconsistency and destructiveness which such miracles imply, they take no heed. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Rachel is enraged: she's all too familiar with her sister's attention-hogging self-destructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wedding Guest From Hell] Reference
But today, the rocks travel at thousands of feet per second and are awesome in their destructiveness and accuracy. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Blame The Fighter Jocks] Reference
A better show would find a way for her to confront her self-destructiveness without resorting to divine intervention. From Wordnik.com. [Damsels in Distress] Reference
Withal, throughout these years of destructiveness his mind was working toward the formation of a new order of things. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference
These and other experts have come forward with astounding statements regarding the destructiveness of birds to insects. From Wordnik.com. [The Bird Study Book] Reference
They see us carrying our destructiveness into space, fighting each other there, infecting other races with our hostility. From Wordnik.com. [The Memory of Mars] Reference
Nothing can be clearer or more frank and comprehensive in its destructiveness than the revolutionary anarchism of Bakunin. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
But Phil was also harried by demons, swinging from manic exuberance to the destructiveness generated by clinical depression. From Wordnik.com. [The Kay We Loved] Reference
Aside from their sheer destructiveness, Monday's suicide bombings also contained some ominous messages for the U.S. military. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Days In Baghdad] Reference
The prevalent impression concerning the relative destructiveness of cannon and musketry is another instance of popular error. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Lemann shows with searing specificity how Hopkins and her family have repeatedly been laid low by fits of self-destructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [A Tragedy With No Ending] Reference
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