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This responsibility, in turn, helps them identify the impulsiveness and self-destructiveness behind behaviors previously used.

A dizzy self-destructiveness has swept through France.' Replace France with Pakistan.

He is tearing the mask off late-stage capitalism's greed and self-destructiveness. And he is doing so not because he wants to reform or overthrow turbo-charged capitalism but because he wants to remove the last, largely cosmetic constraints on the system so that he and his friends can plunder with greater abandon - and destroy the planet more quickly.

An individual at a peak of self-destructiveness receives help, calms down, or commits suicide.

Self-destructiveness, maybe.' Walking away from the pop star lifestyle of excessive recreational drug taking, he turned to God, who also helped with a whole heap of guilt he'd been suffering from the rather outrageous decision he made to tell those around him that he was HIV positive when, in fact, he wasn't.

Is there no end to the self-destructiveness of so many leaders in the American Jewish community?

The ultimate self-destructiveness of most modern epistemologies is scandalous--Rorty & Co.

In the 1920s, Mussolini convinced many foreign observers that he had devised the optimal way to organise society, one that overcame the anarchy and self-destructiveness inherent in traditional liberalism.

In the 1920s, Mussolini convinced many foreign observers that he had devised the optimal way to organize society, one that overcame the anarchy and self-destructiveness inherent in traditional liberalism.

The deeper dynamic concerns our own self-destructiveness, what Merton called the "death-wish" within American culture.

We're not talking here about everyday self-destructiveness, like smoking or eating too much or taunting trigger-happy French riot police in Lille.

And this drive to self-knowledge, for woman, is more than a search for identity: it is part of her refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.