soul-killing

One of the things I found soul-killing about the tradition I was raised in was the insistence that Christian faith was about unswerving belief that could not accommodate questions or disagreement.

Greg Garrett: This, That, And The Other Jesus Greg Garrett 2011

One of the things I found soul-killing about the tradition I was raised in was the insistence that Christian faith was about unswerving belief that could not accommodate questions or disagreement.

Greg Garrett: This, That, And The Other Jesus Greg Garrett 2011

But when, at one point, he makes a soul-killing choice to follow the Bureau's plan, the shambling, old-man gait with which he ends the scene says what he can't bear to speak aloud.

Dance's starring role in 'The Adjustment Bureau' 2011

Tackling taboo after soul-killing taboo, NSP leaves no sex stone unturned in its battle to rid us of our fears and frustrations.

WATCH: 'Sex Training' With Ninja Sex Party Carol Hartsell 2011

Though their tales are worlds and centuries apart, two films grapple with soul-killing pain and financial privation.

'Precious' is raw and painful but poignant 2009

You take the constant waffling, the incessant desire for drama, the need by your quarterback to flip the script whenever it suits him, and the soul-killing picks at the worst possible times because at his best, there may never have been a quarterback with Favre's sheer skill.

Dealing with the devil Doug Farrar 2010

When he speaks on the debt negotiations, he is not only extremely boring, with airy and bromidic language—really they are soul-killing, his talking points—but he never seems to be playing it straight.

Out of the Way, Please, Mr. President Peggy Noonan 2011

Mark - I wish I could believe you (and I will watch again) but the soul-killing moment at the end only works because Teddy knows what he is and chooses lobotomy anyway.

Movie Review: Shutter Island » Scene-Stealers 2010

His brother, Scott, awakens from a pot-addled adolescence to a soul-killing job, a regrettable marriage, and a vinyl-sided tract house in the suburbs.

The Condition by Jennifer Haigh: Book summary 2010

Tackling taboo after soul-killing taboo, NSP leaves no sex stone unturned in its battle to rid us of our fears and frustrations.

WATCH: 'Sex Training' With Ninja Sex Party Carol Hartsell 2011