nerve-destroying

Or perhaps the crippled men of Wichita, their lives devastated by the nerve-destroying chemicals suspended in a thirty-five-cent bottle of Jake.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Or perhaps the crippled men of Wichita, their lives devastated by the nerve-destroying chemicals suspended in a thirty-five-cent bottle of Jake.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Final Fortress is immense – it's exciting, relentless, nerve-destroying stuff and we genuinely can't get enough of it.

SLACKERJACK – Final Fight 2006

But now we are taught and disciplined for years and years, and thereafter we read and read for all the time some strenuous, nerve-destroying business permits.

The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

It was nerve-destroying work high up, as the camp was on a terrace that looked over the broad ribbon of blue to the flounce of surf created by the Great Barrier Reef.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

It's a nerve-destroying condition with no known cure.

CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2002 2002

Vera was only too glad to get away into the open air, glad to feel that at last this nerve-destroying mystery was coming to an end.

The Mystery of the Four Fingers

To me it does not seem a great risk, because if the rug is so bright that it is absolutely nerve-destroying and useless, and there is

Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop

He could see the lights of Longdean Grange below him; but they seemed a long way off, whilst that steady pursuit behind had something relentless and nerve-destroying about it.

The Crimson Blind

Those who had got their scholarships at the 'Varsity, or who were going up in the following year, used to take their essays to him after school and read them to him -- an unpopular and nerve-destroying practice, akin to suicide.

The Gold Bat 1928