self-destruction
noun
self-de·struc·tion
ˌself-di-ˈstrək-shən 
: destruction of oneself
especially
: suicide
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Vain, often drunk, desperate to get a leg up, the title character weaves in and out of humiliating scenarios, scraping by with a sense of self-inflation to match his appetite for self-destruction.
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Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
In that attempt, the Starship failed, as did SpaceX’s self-destruction system.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
One of those benefits, strangely enough, seems to be programmed self-destruction.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
Across its four previous episodes, the show has examined its protagonists’ confusion, self-destruction, and despair, creating an intimate portrait of how geographic rootlessness can yield paralyzing melancholy.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2024
What’s astonishing about this show, though — aside from the central performances, which are superb, and Guettel’s anxious, spiky, sumptuous score, which grabs hold of us and doesn’t let go — is the way its devastating chic snuggles right up to catastrophic self-destruction.
—Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
Her daughter is described in stark extremes: a once-cherubic infant who’s now a churlish adolescent bent on self-destruction.
—Naomi Huffman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2024
Brash, hilarious Roth satirizes American self-destruction, leaving Nolan, Scorsese, and Gerwig with moral and ideological blood on their hands.
—Armond White, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
To move away from feedback loops of self-destruction and violence.
—David Lipset, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
In that attempt, the Starship failed, as did SpaceX’s self-destruction system.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
One of those benefits, strangely enough, seems to be programmed self-destruction.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
Across its four previous episodes, the show has examined its protagonists’ confusion, self-destruction, and despair, creating an intimate portrait of how geographic rootlessness can yield paralyzing melancholy.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2024
What’s astonishing about this show, though — aside from the central performances, which are superb, and Guettel’s anxious, spiky, sumptuous score, which grabs hold of us and doesn’t let go — is the way its devastating chic snuggles right up to catastrophic self-destruction.
—Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
Her daughter is described in stark extremes: a once-cherubic infant who’s now a churlish adolescent bent on self-destruction.
—Naomi Huffman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2024
Brash, hilarious Roth satirizes American self-destruction, leaving Nolan, Scorsese, and Gerwig with moral and ideological blood on their hands.
—Armond White, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
To move away from feedback loops of self-destruction and violence.
—David Lipset, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
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self-destruction
noun
self-de·struc·tion
-di-ˈstrək-shən
: destruction of oneself
especially
: suicide
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