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  • The premise is great, the art is eye destroyingly bad.

    Despicable Me Movie Trailer | /Film 2009

  • Noun The distress created within an educator when a person, usually -- but not always -- a child under their supervision, confidently and perhaps innocently avers a soul-destroyingly false thing they have been taught by unscrupulous and/or ignorant-as-a-stump adults.

    One Definition of "Teachable Moment" Heo 2008

  • Dull dull dull in an impeccably middle class, cost-effective and soul-destroyingly unimpressive sort of way.

    Archive 2008-03-01 juliette 2008

  • Dull dull dull in an impeccably middle class, cost-effective and soul-destroyingly unimpressive sort of way.

    crap date alert juliette 2008

  • Noun The distress created within an educator when a person, usually -- but not always -- a child under their supervision, confidently and perhaps innocently avers a soul-destroyingly false thing they have been taught by unscrupulous and/or ignorant-as-a-stump adults.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Heo 2008

  • But over two hours standing in a cold, bleak, graffitied room with distressed and anxious people who just want to hand in a form/sign something/pick up a dead man's effects/collect lost property...and for long, long periods there is nobody at the reception desk who will help you is soul-destroyingly frustrating.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Rachel 2006

  • But over two hours standing in a cold, bleak, graffitied room with distressed and anxious people who just want to hand in a form/sign something/pick up a dead man's effects/collect lost property...and for long, long periods there is nobody at the reception desk who will help you is soul-destroyingly frustrating.

    Struggling for democracy Rachel 2006

  • Attrition has worked in the past, but it has also failed (Vietnam) or proven enormously, almost civilization-destroyingly costly (WWI).

    Letter from a Marine's father Steve Sailer 2005

  • Attrition has worked in the past, but it has also failed (Vietnam) or proven enormously, almost civilization-destroyingly costly (WWI).

    Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog Steve Sailer 2005

  • Attrition has worked in the past, but it has also failed (Vietnam) or proven enormously, almost civilization-destroyingly costly (WWI).

    Archive 2005-11-13 Steve Sailer 2005

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