soul-destroying

Example Sentences

• "War is a soul-destroying experience for soldiers: you're never the same easy-going person after you've killed."
• "The daily rat race is soul-destroying: you soon give up all aspirations and just try to survive the boredom."
• "The results of such excessive concentration and production are, sooner or later, huge, soul-destroying Trusts, immense national rivalries, and appalling bloody wars largely occasioned by the existence and ever-growing needs of such insatiable machines."
• "A spate of graffiti attacks on West Midlands Railway trains has prompted the operator to warn vandals that they are posing a risk to public health. [...] "At a time when our cleaning teams are working extremely hard in challenging conditions, it is soul-destroying for them to face this pointless additional workload just to get carriages back on the tracks."
• "Generative AI won’t be the end of employment, we are told, only “boring work” – with chatbots helpfully doing all the soul-destroying, repetitive tasks and humans merely supervising them."
• "The Harry Potter star, who has not acted in a film since 2018, says she found promotion duties ‘soul-destroying’ but is now ‘maybe the happiest and healthiest I’ve ever been’"