destructiveness

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destructive
It might have been useful in this theological text to be honest about the ways in which religion might be destructive to human wellbeing.
Instead, let us redouble our efforts and be prepared to sail this new, complex, perverse, destructive, fascinating, cherished river whose name is still pediatric cardiology!
Evidently, bollworm pressure has the most notable impact on insecticide use, which underlines the high destructive capacity of this pest.
Overconfidence becomes very large for very destructive events!
At the same time, he also displayed characteristic political cunning, knowing just how far he could go without provoking a destructive counter-reaction.
Idealizing the positive defensive and protective aspects of warriorhood may also involve a denial of the destructive, senseless realities of modern warfare.
Although there would be sufficient hardships and dangers and problems to give spice to life, there would be no utterly destructive and apparently vindictive evil.
Governments and ruling parties which pretended to be warm and friendly turned out to be ruthless and destructive.
The mucocutaneous and mucosal forms cause severe destructive lesions of mucous membranes of the oral, nasal and pharyngeal tract.
In doing so, they were not merely creating a foil for the destructive forces of change identified with the urban working classes.
All sorts of wrong ways of doing things and destructive acts were exposed and criticized, and ideological problems were clarified.
Destructive it may be; passive it is not; effective at drawing state resources into an area it certainly is.
It was during their tenure that the regime institutionalized the destructive clannism that exploded into violence during the civil war.
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