And who can allow this kind of psychic self-annihilation?. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Witzeman: Becoming One with God: Do We Make It Harder Than It Is?] Reference
Japanese culture is presented as one of self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [A Haunting Woman] Reference
The very idea of global self-annihilation is unbearable to think about. From Wordnik.com. [Kofi Annan's Parting Remarks on Our Nuclear Future -- or Lack Thereof] Reference
Humanity is connected now like never before, and possesses the technology of self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Koehler: The War To Promote Terror] Reference
And self-annihilation might seem prestigious to vulnerable, misguided glory-seeking youngsters. From Wordnik.com. [Lt. Col. Ed Ledford: What Effect Did the Taliban Attacks Have? None. Really, None.] Reference
But the bigger picture, as Campbell points out, is that life involves a self-annihilation and a rebirth. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Witzeman: Becoming One with God: Do We Make It Harder Than It Is?] Reference
This coincidence of forms of enlightenment as self-annihilation ripples through all the works in this volume. From Wordnik.com. [Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism] Reference
His work was gripped with the fever of self-annihilation, the funniness made it seem like he had it under control. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Game: Lee Henderson Interview] Reference
Romanticism of forms of suffering created by the self and of the freedom from suffering found in self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism] Reference
Man unites himself with the Clearing through his self-annihilation, through the ecstatic immersion into the Clearing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Violation of the act by which it exists would be self-annihilation; and that which is itself nothing can create nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Contract] Reference
Blake consistently presents "self-annihilation" an ethical imperative that permits a fundamental re-visioning of nature. From Wordnik.com. [Blake, Heidegger, Buddhism, and Deep Ecology: A Fourfold Perspective on Humanity's Relationship to Nature] Reference
It is in the light of this possibility of self-annihilation that we suddently find ourselves most vulnerable and wanting. From Wordnik.com. [Giant Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
The most in the sense that I reveal the utter irrationality and humiliating self-annihilation of my obsessive love affair. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy] Reference
Throughout history and across cultures, few impulses have been as persistent and resourceful as the drive toward self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Without End] Reference
It is difficult to say whether all these permutations represented some new height of egocentricity or an attempt at self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [Darling Me] Reference
Sometimes I wonder whether I have, if not a death drive, then at least an impulse toward some of the milder forms of self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
It was not an ordinary time for Cambodians to remember; it marked a time when ideology took a collision course toward self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [Vorak Ny: Confronting the Past] Reference
And suddenly, the veil, formed by his own devotion to Aranyání and his own self-annihilation, that hid from him the truth, was lifted from his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Bubbles of the Foam] Reference
Not being able to stand aloneness, man denies his separateness, and not being able to stand meaninglessness, he finds a paradoxical meaning in self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [On Masochism] Reference
Who could have predicted such a foolish response from an otherwise rational and competent (albeit morally challenged) class that appears to be hell-bent on self-annihilation?. From Wordnik.com. [We're a Nation of Lemmings] Reference
He pushed his scepticism to the verge of self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11] Reference
This condition the Sufis characterise as self-annihilation (Fana). From Wordnik.com. [Mystics and Saints of Islam] Reference
He denounced caste; he preached poverty, asceticism, self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermits] Reference
You and I will however not see this as we speed toward self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [News24 Top Stories] Reference
In both cases there is the thirst for self-annihilation, melancholy, dissatisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [A Reckless Character And Other Stories] Reference
That which externally seemed will and immovableness was willingness and self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — First Series] Reference
It was a sly rhetorical turn of phrase, tantamount to inciting his sons to self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [Hoopler - middleeast.org] Reference
Moreover, not one line, not a single word in the Scriptures inculcates such self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe] Reference
This is the mandatory mode of being demanded of corporate hires -- self-annihilation by habitual amiability. From Wordnik.com. [Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news] Reference
As for me who pretended to nothing, I thought all succeeded well, inasmuch as all tended to self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Madame Guyon] Reference
Browning's passion is of utter self-sacrifice, self-annihilation, self-vindicated by its irresistible intensity. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
All this because he wished to atone to the point of self-annihilation, that the tears might be sweetened of his angel. From Wordnik.com. [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference
Europe as being more passive and more self-centred: they are supposed to desire self-annihilation and to have no thought for others. From Wordnik.com. [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1] Reference
The feet of Raoul were over the edge of the cliff, bathed in that void which is peopled by vertigo, and provokes to self-annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [The Man in the Iron Mask] Reference
Gothic architecture impresses the beholder with a sense of self-annihilation; he becomes, as it were, a part of the work contemplated. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference
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