The use of such icons to signify apocalyptic ruination is nothing new of course. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction] Reference
So many times we hear of the sons and daughters of wealthy, prominent parents going off the deep end, losing their lives in ruination. From Wordnik.com. [Fx Mint | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
The road to ruination is coming people. From Wordnik.com. [GOP rips Senate health care timeline] Reference
The ruination is fantastic! the barbther. From Wordnik.com. [Jenny Sanford on her husband: 'The ball is in his court'] Reference
The ruination is unfathomable. From Wordnik.com. [Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine] Reference
Ranny had found out that his bicycle, though it diminished his traveling expenses and kept him fit, was simply "ruination" to his clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Combined Maze] Reference
And really six months of non-practice would be ruination. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
And there's more people say she'll be the cause of my ruination. From Wordnik.com. [Bonny Blue-Eyed Nancy] Reference
Like most major wars, this had left ruination in everyone's camp. From Wordnik.com. [True Names]
You've even forgotten that you never did accomplish my ruination. From Wordnik.com. [The English Witch]
This to me tells the whole story of the ruination of our society. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2007] Reference
No, what worried me was the ruination of this grand adventure I'd planned. From Wordnik.com. [full moon anniversarializing] Reference
We do not want merely to lay waste, to bring about ruination, devastation. From Wordnik.com. [INTERVIEW WITH MAYIBUYE ON THE CURRENT SITUATION IN SOUTH AFRICA AND SOUTHERN AFRICA IN GENERAL, 1984(1)] Reference
Hard to say if it's just a change or all out ruination. if that's even a word. From Wordnik.com. [dragonwench Diary Entry] Reference
Should two words be the ruination of this man's whole life of doing good things?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2007] Reference
A man may be bald-headed, and it's genteel; but to be barefooted, it's ruination. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
It would have spelled the ruination of most uprisings before they were well begun. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
The obstacle that stood between you and Copplesthone, and me and ruination, wath removed. From Wordnik.com. [The Crooked House] Reference
What did surprise him was that she was staring not at the ruination of Skopentzana but at him. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
The financial ruination we have faced is another consequence which no one else has considered. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2002] Reference
At least the Labour Party states clearly how it intends to complete its ruination of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
"It would mean ruination to most of us to pull out and leave it to these wolves," said the judge. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
He is not one of those fickle hearers whose demands for some new thing are the ruination of literary art. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
These he literally led back from ruination from ledges of despair, lethal addictions and Great War nightmares. From Wordnik.com. ['The Great Oom'] Reference
No pickets protesting the ruination of the environment, education, the skyline of Oxford, and things in general. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
And they said it would be the ruination of America, it would deepen the recession, it would explode the deficit. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President At Dnc Luncheon] Reference
The sort of ruination of the middle and working classes in which the City engaged in the Eighties and engages today?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Simon Cowell, purveyor of brainless TV, may well accomplish what Osama bin Laden could not - the ruination of America. From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
On any number of occasions, some generation has witnessed the ruination of everything they and their ancestors had built. From Wordnik.com. [The God Debate] Reference
You seen how only clerking in them was nearly your ruination -- the little gambling-room-in-the-back kind that you pick out. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
The aim of the Act is to bring about the economic ruination of our people with the object of facilitating their repatriation. From Wordnik.com. [PAPER ON THE GROUP AREAS ACT AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE INDIAN PEOPLE OF NATAL] Reference
Ah kin help yo all ward off evil and jinx; ah kin help yo all git a job; ah kin help yo all ovah come the ruination uv yo home. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4] Reference
He raised both eyebrows in an expression that could surely freeze grapes on the vine and cause ruination of the harvest for a whole year. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Dangerous]
Whoever takes over the ruination the Republicans have created will ultimately take the blame, the stink for not making it all work again. From Wordnik.com. [Robert L. Borosage: McCain and Obama: What to Do About Wall Street's Addiction to Risk] Reference
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