self-annihilation

In Brandon's case, a conflicted search for pleasure and self-annihilation may be leading him toward the latter because, for reasons unspecified though implied, he can't open himself to the former.

'Shame': Tracking The Travails of Lost Souls

This is the behavior of someone with a subliminal desire for total self-annihilation.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anthony Weiner and Why Powerful Men Self-Destruct

It is a stubborn thing resisting the call to self-annihilation, deadening pain, and compromising with what is simply wrong.

Lonni Collins Pratt: The Sacred Power Of Hope

Those who weather the storm sometimes emerge as people of talent and creativity; the birth of creativity can come from the risk of intense self-annihilation.

History of a Suicide

Is there a connection between an unexamined life and the pull of self-annihilation?

History of a Suicide

I became a voracious reader of the literature on the act of self-annihilation.

History of a Suicide

It is in the light of this possibility of self-annihilation that we suddently find ourselves most vulnerable and wanting.

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The most in the sense that I reveal the utter irrationality and humiliating self-annihilation of my obsessive love affair.

A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy

And this is the sense in which denial is constitutive of the company, a built-in feature that cannot be acknowledged by any of the major players because self-annihilation would be the result.

Phone hacking row shows News Corp is no ordinary news company

The reason we are not being asked on Colbert etc. is that in Crossing Zero we question the very nature of the use of force itself and its failure to accomplish anything, a question that a career military man cannot indulge in publicly in any event without risking self-annihilation.

Michael Hughes: Reagan-Era Defense Official Proposes Failed Vietnam Strategy for Afghanistan