soul-destroying Betydning & definition

Eksempler på soul-destroying

• Men—good honest trustworthy men—are leaving the railways every week in large numbers, all because of this soul-destroying system of remote control.

• What is the more soul-destroying—being a hen in a battery complex or being a worker on a car production line?

• Nothing is more soul-destroying than that, and probably the hen would choose to be in a pen rather than on such a production line.

• I detest unemployment, which is soul-destroying and wasteful.

• No matter how criminal a man may be, can he possibly merit such soul-destroying punishment?

• Unemployment is bad enough at any time, but it must be soul-destroying for anyone to begin his adult life living on the dole.

• We realise that unemployment is a human tragedy and a social evil and that it is soul-destroying and creates resentment.

• They knew that it would be an unpopular and a soul-destroying business.