soul-destroying
adjective
: causing a person to feel very unhappy or depressed
the soul-destroying confinement of city life
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It’s been said many times before, but this is and always will be a soul-destroying place to watch football.
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Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025
Later, with the nightmare surrealism of Mulholland Drive, Lynch would expose the soul-destroying nature of Hollywood.
—Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025
There is nothing worse than hopelessness, nothing more soul-destroying than pessimism, grief, and despair.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
This was a bad idea; listening to a couple of AI bots mindlessly spitting out empty observations while mimicking the tempo of human speech is a soul-destroying experience.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The film also includes near doc sequences, such as of María’s soul-destroying work in a local orange packaging factory.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 22 July 2024
Often, of course, these machines are used, and the consequences are soul-destroying for the characters.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
Those questions sound awful even by the standards of an already soul-destroying political season.
—Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2023
The horrors of Auschwitz are never shown on screen and are spoken of only as logistical problems to be managed — among other things, this is a film about the soul-destroying power of denial, compartmentalization and euphemism.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
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Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025
Later, with the nightmare surrealism of Mulholland Drive, Lynch would expose the soul-destroying nature of Hollywood.
—Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025
There is nothing worse than hopelessness, nothing more soul-destroying than pessimism, grief, and despair.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
This was a bad idea; listening to a couple of AI bots mindlessly spitting out empty observations while mimicking the tempo of human speech is a soul-destroying experience.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The film also includes near doc sequences, such as of María’s soul-destroying work in a local orange packaging factory.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 22 July 2024
Often, of course, these machines are used, and the consequences are soul-destroying for the characters.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
Those questions sound awful even by the standards of an already soul-destroying political season.
—Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2023
The horrors of Auschwitz are never shown on screen and are spoken of only as logistical problems to be managed — among other things, this is a film about the soul-destroying power of denial, compartmentalization and euphemism.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
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