disintegration

Examples of disintegrating

disintegrating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It is easy to feel the power of this scheme at the latter end of the twentieth century in a disintegrating society.
The spatial experience of exploring a disintegrating building is another fascination.
These judges applied this tool in order to hold together disintegrating families, a task better served by human judgment than by a test tube.
The image of the angel performs a similar contraction, collapsing into the disintegrating figure the evolutionary demise of religion and of humankind.
The old distinctions between genres of thought and practice are disintegrating, and with them their constituencies of expert practitioners and enthusiasts.
A temple which is 'radiant', he says, has tremendous impact on people, whereas one which is dilapidated reflects a community which is disintegrating.
Many observers, in fact, shared the impression that the body politic was disintegrating under the effect of civil disturbances.
The authorial voice enjoys a modernist control over the symbolic language, gelid and obscure, and a modernist distance from its disintegrating subject.
In such instances, judges and jurors were even more reluctant to use scientific evidence to threaten the integrity of an existing, albeit disintegrating, family.
In lyric breakout, the potential extraordinariness becomes actual, and the constituent words hang there, strung out in precarious balance or disintegrating in lexical and syntactic fission.
Curtis's analysis implies that, though their footholds are disintegrating, politicians remain complacent about slow change, because their vested interests can be realized, even in a changed political context.
While this may have been true in the independence struggle and immediately after, ethnic civil groups also can and do play considerable roles in undermining and disintegrating statehood.
Jumbes, meanwhile, were left to cope with a disintegrating social system which threatened their claims to authority.
In a social environment dominated by chronic poverty and disintegrating family bonds, many young males and (less visibly) young females began to group themselves into neighbourhood gangs.
Circumstances were ripe: capitalism had deprived large sections of the working class of their livelihood, the state was cutting back on support and society was disintegrating.
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