world-destroying

• “People have to care about the plot and often there is some awful scenario that could be played out e.g. virus threatening mankind, world-destroying weapon, deaths of millions.”

  Writing Thrillers: Lessons Learned From James Rollins | The Creative Penn

• “Two must read pieces this week from the world-destroying Rock, Paper Shotgun.”

  The Week in Videogame Blogging #3

• “Scarry thus concludes that “in compelling confession, the torturers compel the prisoner to record and objectify the fact that intense pain is world-destroying.””

  Discourse.net: Robert Cover on Torture

• “What does it mean to be a Christian when we drive to work each day in cars that pump out oil, to jobs where we are in charge of maximizing profit for multinational corporations, in a country that has made a pact with world-destroying forces so that we do not compromise our standard of living?”

  The Huffington Post: Jeremy John: The People's Prayer Breakfast

• “But yes, the multiverse is full of potential - if used as something more than a dumping ground for characters or a set up for world-destroying events.”

  Morrison shares details on The Multiversity | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment

• “The firm's remaining $1.6 trillion derivatives portfolio is like one of those delicate, world-destroying time bombs that James Bond used to have to disarm in the movies; the difference here is that the only people who appear to be knowledgeable enough to dismantle the bomb are the ones who built it.”

  The Huffington Post: Washington Post Editors Dismiss Teacher Layoff Crisis On Same Day Massive Teacher Layoffs Are Reported

• “It's a real pity that the notion that one can only "attract the top talent" with lavish taxpayer-funded bonuses only works in certain fields of endeavor, where they build "monuments to corporate greed" and "world-destroying time bombs.”

  The Huffington Post: Washington Post Editors Dismiss Teacher Layoff Crisis On Same Day Massive Teacher Layoffs Are Reported

• “I just hope that the idea is not to scare everyone with the Comet_Kohoutek of world-destroying plagues.”

  October 22nd, 2009

• “It was the kind of retribution one might expect to find in a far-off place like the venerable Varanasi, the Indian city most loved by the world-destroying Shiva.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Lampshade

• “Here Paul Leonard has taken that throwaway line and constructed one of the best alien cultures I've ever read around it; reminiscent a little of both the pentagonal creatures of At the Mountains of Madness (though a lot less evil) and David Brin's Alvin the Hoon, but faced with an imminent world-destroying tragedy - this is Venus of several billion years ago, still habitable though steadily deteriorating.”

  March Books 40) [In Search of Lost Time #5] The Prisoner and The Fugitive

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