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"self-destructive" Definitions
  1. doing things to deliberately harm yourself

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Both Nadia and Alan spend much of the series doing self-destructive things, but because we're in their points-of-view, those self-destructive behaviors seem entirely fine, justified even.
But for whatever reason I didn't do anything self-destructive, really.
Woodson had a history of self-destructive behavior and psychiatric care.
We know that Pollock was self-destructive, but Krasner was not.
The sorrow drove him down a path of self-destructive behaviors.
At first, I was very self destructive and full of guilt.
But his self-destructive streak is unlike anything I've ever seen.
He also seemed to carry a self-destructive fear of success.
"There's a temper there and a self-destructive button," he said.
Trump is also plagued with a self-destructive form of selfishness.
She is both self-destructive and possessed of formidable survival skills.
It can be self-destructive; a necessary implosion to start over.
Communication — real sharing — is the best offense against self-destructive defenses.
"These self-destructive patterns, they are comforting in the moment," Steven says.
"Attacking Jeff Sessions was still a useless, self-destructive act," Carlson said.
" Even Trump's ally Newt Gingrich says that he's being "very self-destructive.
I hate people chasing the "glamorous" idea of the self-destructive artist.
Trump's wild tacking from one personality to the other is self-destructive.
But the Republican approach to health care is also self-destructive politics.
This may be the most self-destructive strategy in American political history.
Spoilsport scholars decry speed-eating as a self-destructive form of behaviour.
Otherwise the animal might behave in an antisocial or self-destructive way.
Billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, superhero … and a conceited, self-destructive, derogatory a**hole.
But he isn't the self-destructive dilettante his legend's detractors claim, either.
His self-destructive behavior demonstrates that on some level he knows this.
Many attempts to reform the system have been ineffective or self-destructive.
In the end, though, the siege mentality ends up being self-destructive.
Is there a way out of this self-destructive amplifying feedback loop?
It would be condemned as self-destructive, cowardly and almost bottomlessly cynical.
What compels someone to do such a destructive — and self-destructive — thing?
Identify the sources of these problems in our self-destructive economic system?
Rinna also went on to blame Kyle for encouraging Kim's self-destructive behavior.
Weiner emerges as a passionate politician paralyzed by his own self-destructive behavior.
What seemed like his constant self-destructive approach helped to support this thought.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still capable of engaging in self-destructive behavior.
BRITAIN: Brexit is the stupidest, most self-destructive act a country could undertake.
Then he ignores all reasonable advice and acts out in self-destructive ways.
I started out as such an out-of-control, self-destructive human being.
I became self-destructive and started falling down the dark hole of addiction.
Or is there a deeper self-destructive flare that he's not dealing with?
The Weeknd became a star with melancholy confessions about his self-destructive tendencies.
What's notable about the Trump tariffs, however, is that they're so self-destructive.
Some of those things were ugly, some were self-destructive, some were tragic.
Most self-destructive debate performance since Quayle '88 and J.B. Stockdale '92: Rubio.
The Democratic Party is suddenly lurching left in ways that may be self-destructive.
And just like that, he became the crazy, self-destructive one in their relationship.
Now, The Simpsons has always embraced the inherent hilarity of humanity's self-destructive ruts.
In Prison Architect, inmates only rebel in ways that are self-destructive and aimless.
It is completely as self-destructive as Musk is," Sonnenfeld said on "Squawk Alley.
Do you soothe yourself through meditation or artistic pursuits, or through self-destructive addictions?
It is characterized by repeating the same self-destructive behavior over and over again.
Except that Trump's daily dramas are invariably self-destructive — legislatively, politically, legally and grammatically.
This self-destructive relationship can work both ways, with dermatologic problems exacerbating mood disorders.
Yes — more than BLM 'protestors' can grasp, as evidenced by their self-destructive provocateurism.
Protecting oneself from self-destructive behaviors is an expression of self-awareness and autonomy.
Her neediness threatens his detached self-control — and fuels his own self-destructive tendencies.
Kristofferson plays a self-destructive rock star, and Streisand a younger singer named Esther.
I always liked both, but the punk scene was artsy, self-destructive and suicidal.
Even without the drugs, my mind still behaves in erratic and self-destructive ways.
The self-destructive elements of the meme are something its creators are conscious of.
That estrangement can be a gateway to binge drinking and other self-destructive behavior.
Kabir spirals into depression, fueled by alcohol, drug abuse and more self-destructive acts.
Our animal instincts are the primary reason we engage in self-destructive financial behaviors.
But, above all, the U.S. should stop its self-destructive and paralyzing partisan bickering.
He has led a consequence-free life despite enormously self-destructive behaviors over time.
Marathe had watched his brilliant sister succumb to self-destructive thoughts and starve herself.
I've always been fascinated by nuclear weapons and the self-destructive tendencies of mankind.
While we've all had self-destructive friends, this is truly a whole other level.
Working through self-destructive valleys to achieve lasting sobriety is an excruciating, maddening, constant process.
It was one of the strangest and most self-destructive political performances in recent memory.
"I distanced myself as I was getting involved with self-destructive things," she admits now.
Their failed attempts to be different lead to self-destructive affairs and a psychotic breakdown.
When in crisis mode, i'm kind of self-destructive, but I'll wind up chain-smoking.
But [unlike ] Hannah, Tyler may not be so self-destructive as he is just destructive.
A hallmark of addiction is a loss of control that results in self-destructive behaviors.
He had the very good fortune to face an extremely weak and self-destructive opponent.
"I became self-destructive, which brings on disruption to others in your life," Edmonds says.
Nonetheless, there's a way to factually separate the enemies from her own self-destructive actions.
And suicide — inherently the most self-destructive impulse one can act upon — is, indeed, preventable.
The only thing that made this self-destructive cycle stop was the threat of college.
When they can't meet that need, they cope with alcohol and other self-destructive behavior.
Now we can go enjoy our Mexican Cokes and ginger ales in self-destructive peace.
" And "if we're so keen to be alive, to survive, why the self-destructive behavior?
When he violates such customs, Mr. Trump is at his most impulsive and self-destructive.
Both girls would turn to self-destructive behaviors to cope with their rapidly disintegrating world.
The life he describes is not just materially deprived but culturally isolated and self-destructive.
My entire career has been about accessing the messy, insecure, self-destructive parts of myself.
Their failed attempts to be different lead to self-destructive affairs and a psychotic breakdown.
This tragedy will not be reversed until its victims end their self-destructive voting preferences.
I'm fond of Mordecai Richler's protagonists, who tend to be sardonic, somewhat self-destructive boozers.
The question is: Why does someone choose such a self-destructive path to get it?
Purism simply isn't in the business of participating in or making convenient your self-destructive behavior.
Space exploration is our opportunity to transcend the self-destructive, provincial mindset nurtured by planetary living.
The constant doubt of others might have been a springboard for him sometimes being self-destructive.
"It's impossible to be self-destructive," she continues, turning away as her point becomes more general.
She also went on to blame Kim's sister Kyle Richards for encouraging Kim's self-destructive behavior.
Cooper plays Jackson Maine, a self-destructive, alcoholic country rock star who has seen better days.
However, beginning with his teen years, we find a person who indulged in self-destructive behavior.
Is Facebook a community, like all communities, in which self-destructive and suicidal behavior takes place?
Don't think love is doing things you shouldn't do – drugs, alcohol, or any self-destructive behavior.
Especially since having Dolly clearly hasn't actually changed any of the therapist's more self-destructive tendencies.
Liberals who write about poverty sometimes ignore self-destructive behaviors, while conservatives sometimes see nothing else.
If he does, it would be the most catastrophic and self-destructive mistake in presidential history.
This gives the movie an extra frisson, adding to its portrait of a self-destructive woman.
The first episode contains a few quick depictions of suicide (and plenty of self-destructive behavior).
All of the available explanations for Mr. Manafort's self-destructive path seem highly implausible, at best.
It will let us overcome self-destructive behavior, without having to change a lot of laws.
Left to simmer, it leads to an explosion of self-destructive behavior and violence against women.
In O'Neil's narrative the men's self-destructive behaviors seem to precipitate the catastrophe that befalls them.
This encounter with Nat comes off as her latest flirtation with her most self-destructive thoughts.
She is far more complicated, her devotion to Tannhäuser almost pathological and her behavior self-destructive.
She is far more complicated, her devotion to Tannhäuser almost pathological and her behavior self-destructive.
During this period Adia went through what she calls her wild years, a self-destructive tear.
It also mirrors what Mr. Garratt sings about: love battling against itself, damaged by self-destructive impulses.
TFW: When you and your girlfriends are trying to find commonalities in self-destructive behavioral tendencies. 6.
But so much of what flows from this White House are leaks of a self-destructive nature.
"  Their conclusion: "Despite its growing popularity, competitive speed eating is a potentially self-destructive form of behavior.
The bulimic woman is also shown dancing in a swimsuit, seemingly cured of her self-destructive insecurities.
And it's true that much of Bamford's comedy has incorporated her struggle with her self-destructive brain.
But as seen through Martin Scorsese's camera, Leo DiCaprio's self-destructive rampage couldn't help but be glamorous.
The true thing about distrust, in politics and in life generally, is that it is self-destructive.
Suicide 'crisis' in the US So what explains the higher rate of self-destructive thoughts and actions?
As Trump flails in every self-destructive fashion conceivable, the odds increasingly point to a Clinton victory.
For me the video's about escape but from your own self-destructive behavioral patterns though, not society.
Shutting out responsible, value-adding partners through self-destructive steel tariffs is not the way to go.
This is also a time to cast spells to help you cease self-destructive habits of spending.
I can't be the only one playing these games who exhibits self-destructive hoarding behavior, can I?
The GM males mate with wild females and pass on the self-destructive gene to their offspring.
She's a grown-up, fascinated by personas, gender roles, connections, obligations, self-destructive behavior and looming mortality.
Seldom has an administration operated in such a transparently dishonest, determinedly self-destructive and spectacularly inept fashion.
He would be concerned as a psychologist that Smollett would do something so self-destructive and bizarre.
Openly laughing at him will drive him nuts and prod him into self-destructive actions and statements.
He pointed out that fat-shaming only harms fat people and triggers depression and self-destructive behavior.
It teaches travelers to take dangerous roads, knowing that others will rescue them from self-destructive behaviors.
Not only is she refusing to forage and eat, she begins to engage in overtly self-destructive behaviors.
The ice cream and walk help to clear my mind of that negative self-destructive train of thought.
Now China worries that bankrupt Venezuela, which hews doggedly to self-destructive populism, may not repay its debts.
But I can't give Christian the Fishy, because by his own analysis his two votes are self-destructive.
They were the self-destructive, blonder, and less extreme Nancy & Sid Vicious of the Los Angeles club scene.
"I think this partly explains the self-destructive moves we have been seeing from the CSU," he said.
In court, Koch admitted to his crimes and said his actions were "self-destructive," according to the Gazette.
Then, she purged, and just like that, a self-destructive cycle of bulimia began in Sydney Fitzgibbons' life.
As the series progresses—each episode is only 30 minutes—Fleabag's self-destructive behaviour is given psychological grounds.
As stressed out as we Californians are, we won't be doing anything that self-destructive this election year.
" 🎆🎆 "For those of us that want this administration to succeed, this is incredibly self-destructive behavior.
Ms. Jolie Pitt and Mr. Pitt have separately discussed struggling with self-destructive behavior in their younger years.
To Tuchman, folly begins with the most fundamental of things: an outsize and self-destructive will to power.
Like anyone, she fears monotony, but this hardly seems to account for such extreme, almost self-destructive restlessness.
It's that particular behavior, habit or mind-set that is self-destructive but that we're completely blind to.
With "Sharp Objects," in which she plays a self-destructive journalist, the five-time Oscar nominee keeps evolving.
Obama threw at it the full range of US military might, under a perhaps self-destructive time limit.
Other works perform a playful, self-destructive repetition that has a courageous (if daft) Sisyphean feeling about it.
"The End of Love" is a gorgeously song with some of the most terrible lyrics about self-destructive behavior.
Having to put on the beige heels, form-fitting dresses and pearls started to make me feel self-destructive.
Most of the time I do the important thing right away, unless I'm feeling particularly self-destructive that day.
Scorpio has a tendency for obsessive or self-destructive actions, but these scorpions are constantly trying to self-improve.
The GM males mate with wild females and pass on the self-destructive gene to (some of) their offspring.
Since I got back from California I feel like he's been a little bit self-destructive in some ways.
Trump as the Manchurian (or perhaps Chappaqua) Candidate probably imposes too much rationality on his politically self-destructive rhetoric.
The goal was to not only impersonate Burton but to distill the self-destructive genius down to his essence.
While she had superpowers, she'd given up a costumed life to be a hard-drinking, self-destructive private investigator.
I don't think that view comes from nothing, but it can be pretty self-destructive once it sets in.
It all feels contrived to exploit Shannon's self-destructive pattern of turning to food to deal with her emotions.
It's a movie willing to see improv, and its artisans, as the mad, self-destructive beautiful souls they are.
Journalism is the suit that removes me from the self-destructive mania that comes from giving into the bullshit.
His death exorcises the self-destructive impulses of primitive society—both man and ape—ensuring independence for his people.
It's for this reason that some GIFs persist, long past relevance and the internet's self-destructive short-term memory.
There are casual confessions of self-destructive, out-of-control behavior by Iggy Pop and his band, the Stooges.
The self-destructive effects may have something to do with the way the assholes themselves take heat from society.
The self-destructive populism of Trump and the suicidal divorce of Brexit are all but absent from the region.
His charismatic arrogance burrows into her insecurities, while his self-destructive tendencies threaten to destroy her along with him.
It can be particularly helpful if, post-breakup, you've found yourself engaging in extreme behaviors or becoming self-destructive.
Her lyrics chronicle sadness, doubts, self-destructive urges, frail physical and mental health and a constant reckoning with faith.
Lucy's years of uncomplaining, unfulfilling monogamy do not prepare us for her drop into actively self-destructive sex addiction.
His closest brother, Joseph, overcame a horrific childhood accident and became a prominent sociologist, but Chester was self-destructive.
In addition, the effort to finally straighten out our misdirected and self-destructive international tax rules is welcome news.
This gambit will only stop Trump if he is provoked into self-destructive action and his departure is hastened.
It could be argued that Ms. Riley is too healthy and secure-seeming to embody the self-destructive Effie.
"He's a highly self-destructive individual who makes routine calls begging for his job back," Hicks said to Politico.
Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and Adam (Adam Driver), once self-destructive magnets for trouble, have embraced sobriety, and each other.
Forbes theorized that The Tethered represent, "a self-destructive tendency," we all possess that could be considered our darker sides.
Young people imbibed important, at times self-destructive and irresponsible, lessons from the adults around them this past election season.
"The combination of John Lennon and Harry Nilsson created a nuclear self-destructive device," friend Jimmy Webb remarked decades later.
Exactly the kind of performative, self-destructive stunt that any healthy adult who feels fully adequate and loved would do!
But, like the mob that mindlessly celebrates its team's victory by looting its own hometown, they are self-destructive hooligans.
The book will also delve into Tortorella's battles with addiction and self-destructive behavior, something they have long talked about.
He drinks too much and worries even more, as one habit feeds into the other in a self-destructive cycle.
The women had a similar story, but in general the women were much more self-destructive with drugs and alcohol.
Of course, it would be reductive to say every night out resembling the above is wholly hedonistic, self-destructive behavior.
If I were Sebastian, I would donate the "fail"-revenues to worthy causes, just to avoid introducing self-destructive incentives.
Many pundits are beginning to regard Clinton as the favorite in this election, if Trump persists in self-destructive behavior.
Her childhood experience, she said "created a firestorm within me" that led to years of self-destructive behavior, she said.
Then again, many other free-to-play apps also indulge that kind of self-destructive behavior, so Niantic isn't alone.
Some will have an even harder time adjusting to college life, perhaps plunging into severe depression or self-destructive thoughts.
She thinks it is not only naïve to live as if justice were an attainable ideal; it is self-destructive.
There's a stereotype that Scorpios are self-destructive...and it's a sad misconception of the sign of rebirth and transformation!
"After watching this, I refuse to overthink things to the point where I'm self-destructive," said the newly appointed Sergeant.
The director contrasted Houston with Amy Winehouse, another self-destructive singer who was the subject of a high-profile documentary.
Haejin Park: To remember back, I was thinking about self destructive habits that are natural but feeling guilty when done.
About once a week, someone dies in front of a train — by accident, by assault or on self-destructive purpose.
"Bury a Friend," with a pulsing, nervous undercurrent and sampled screams, veers between mourning, lashing out and self-destructive thoughts.
Read more " _____ Damon Linker in The Week: "Don't get me wrong: I think America's gun fetish is incredibly self-destructive.
Ending the AIDS epidemic means addressing sexual violence, and getting survivors the help they need to avoid self-destructive behaviors.
Cameron Douglas can't pinpoint just one thing that led him down the dark and self-destructive path of drug addiction.
But when applied to a witness in a criminal case involving his presidency, these tactics could be enormously self-destructive.
But she also still gets in trouble at school, still causes her parents frustration, still makes impulsive, self-destructive decisions.
New York had scored 34 points in each of its last three games, but was self-destructive throughout on Sunday.
Manipulative and deceptive, Trump is renowned for his lies and for a commitment to them that seems profoundly self-destructive.
Meanwhile, the lyrics see humanity from afar and it's not pretty: biologically predetermined, deeply superstitious and greedily self-destructive. 1.
The casual, unapologetic and ultimately self-destructive violence of white supremacy is the true and enduring horror of American life.
But now, he finally feels that he's reached a plateau, free from his past insecurities, self-destructive tendencies, and indulgences.
Sadly, in the end, it proved to be a self-destructive exercise as much as it was bizarre and futile.
Even the most curious person of escape will not want to be a part of that unless they were self-destructive.
Ms. Collette's character, Jean, is a formerly fun-loving woman who embraced the bottle as a self-destructive revenge against fate.
"It's a self-destructive nuclear option," said Robert Tipp, chief investment strategist and head of global bonds for PGIM Fixed Income.
But, the return of TV's most self-destructive equine is really the cherry on top of a very bingeable TV sundae.
They show some of the Democratic nominee's closest aides grumbling about her "terrible" instincts and her self-destructive obsession with secrecy.
"I would engage in self-destructive behavior, because I felt the rug had been pulled out from under me," he said.
I've talked to my partner about my struggles and she reassures me, but soon I'm back in my self-destructive spiral.
Connie's brusque attitude and sugar addiction attempt to push her in the direction of a Lethal Weapon-esque self-destructive cop.
In addition to adopting healthy habits, avoiding detrimental habits—like negative thoughts, unproductive behavior, and self-destructive emotions—is also essential.
The only way Girlboss is able to start reversing Sophia's most self-destructive tendencies is to go right to the source.
It sparked a trade war in the early days of the Great Depression, and has become shorthand for self-destructive protectionism.
Like Beckett, this is a series of rants and musings of a self-destructive, neurotic, irritable and very amusing city dweller.
" He wrote on Facebook: "The President who promised 'America First' has taken a self-destructive step that puts our nation last.
Its epicenter was the Black Hole, Ness' Fullerton apartment that became ground zero for all of the scene's self destructive behavior.
After undergoing therapy, Van Ness said he later connected his early trauma to self-destructive behaviors he had later in life.
Or will we learn nothing and continue on our self-destructive path, allowing politics and personal agendas to overpower the possibilities?
It&aposs linked with impulsivity and risky behavior, like reckless driving, gambling, drug and alcohol use, and other self-destructive behaviors.
The very next day, Trump walked out and gave one of the craziest, most self-destructive press conferences in political history.
Gambling is a disease, not a moral issue, but it often causes its sufferers to do unethical and self-destructive things.
As therapy would later reveal, the abuse he experienced as a young child planted the seed for other self-destructive behaviors.
Self-soothing can also cross the line into self-destructive behavior when done in excess, and can even lead to addiction.
He described it as an accord that briefly "built trust," and described Mr. Trump's efforts to dismantle it as self-destructive.
If the outcome truly was mutual assured destruction, then it would take an act of self-destructive madness to press the button.
With that success has come a lot of self-destructive behavior, and I think a lot of people can relate to that.
What you end up with when you create these democratic deficits is backlash that can be very ugly or very self-destructive.
"Miranda saw Hamilton's relentlessness, brilliance, linguistic dexterity, and self-destructive stubbornness through his own idiosyncratic lens," wrote The New Yorker in 2015.
One high-ranking GOP official conceded that some top Republicans begin each day fearing what new self-destructive sideshow Trump could create.
If you have a tendency toward self-destructive behavior, now is the time to reach out to someone who can help you.
"It appears this group isn't seeking help but rather turning to self-destructive means of dealing with their despair," Professor Phillips said.
This is a culture so despondent and at such a loss for what to do that it has become increasingly self-destructive.
His success in obtaining the crown depended on a fatal conjunction of diverse but equally self-destructive responses from those around him.
Nobody I know believed that Trump would pivot in the opposite direction, becoming even more irresponsible and self-destructive after the conventions.
But the Methblr community also promotes self-destructive sex involving loads of methamphetamines, making their subculture seem similar to pro-ana blogs.
Breakups—and the self-destructive things we might do to deal with them—tend to make us feel more unloveable than ever.
Her 1976 remake of A Star Is Born casts her as Esther Hoffman, the ingénue to Kris Kristofferson's self-destructive rock god.
There are a lot of things Donald Trump does stand for which are neither politically self-destructive nor focused upon personal vendettas.
At the moment, thanks to Donald J. Trump's self-destructive tendencies and both states' growing populations of professionals and nonwhites, it's possible.
Guilt about a righteous but unlawful killing hangs over Sarah Jane, driving both her self-destructive behavior and her acts of atonement.
But Mr. Allman helped write it and his story was in it, facing down a lifelong self-destructive streak he had survived.
For the next week, his staff deployed a series of creative tricks to protect its boss from his most self-destructive impulses.
Greg, played by the Broadway star Santino Fontana, is particularly appealing: he's melancholic, self-destructive, witty, and decent, with flashes of anger.
But the leader of the center-left opposition in the Israeli Parliament faulted Hamas for what he called its self-destructive actions.
While these structural factors are surely the main story, however, I think we have to acknowledge the role of self-destructive politics.
And by making this self-destructive character a confessional newspaper columnist, Stone cannily explored the limits and lure of 21st-century voyeurism.
But Mr. Daly finds something universal in Forrest: his denial, his workaholism, his stubbornness, his inability to break his self-destructive patterns.
But what if all of my self-sabotaging and self-destructive behaviors, regardless of what form they took, had the same pathology?
All of these relationships are elegantly sketched in by writer Jason Richman, and Dex's self-destructive streak powers almost all of them.
I would rather see Mr. Trump appear publicly as the "bloviator in chief," a self-destructive role that he seems to relish.
It would be indulging one of his self-destructive impulses, and she's not going to let him commit career suicide by journalist.
"I believe that all good things taken to an extreme can be self-destructive and that everything must evolve or die," Dalio writes.
I agree that you need to put an end to your "self-destructive spiral" before it damages your relationship, but please don't despair.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Sia had a sometimes brilliant but increasingly self-destructive run as a singer-songwriter speaking for herself.
He would probably counter American protectionism with the sort of self-destructive economic nationalism to which Mexico has disastrously resorted in the past.
They tend to engage in reckless, self-destructive behavior, sometimes questioning whether it is worth trying to save a flawed humanity at all.
But in Peppiatt's rendering, the deaths of Peter Lacy and George Dyer, Bacon's lovers, evidenced Bacon's penchant for self-destructive people, not cruelty.
"What you're likely to see is more self-destructive behaviors — more cutting, more suicidality, particularly the longer their detention goes on," she said.
"Psychedelic sacred plant spirit journeying is inherently about breaking through deep programming and self-destructive narratives," she explained to Broadly over the phone.
The personality traits associated with this include narcissism, lacking empathy, grandiosity, being impulsive, being a thrill seeker, fearing commitment and being self-destructive.
That he knows Republicans were wrong to put their faith in a creature who is by his nature both destructive and self-destructive.
The most recent examples of Trump's self-destructive speeches have involved his willful distortion of the London mayor's response to recent terror attacks.
The indicators of despair were anything "that manifests itself in feelings of sadness, thoughts of defeat, and self-destructive behaviors," Gaydosh tells me.
John Darnielle is no stranger to near-operatic narratives, weaving tales of self-destructive couples and his own childhood into album-length stories.
The fatalism and self-destructive fantasies that our culture once expressed in teen dystopias have begun to come out in teen suicide narratives.
There's a primal sense of glee that comes with doing something self-destructive, but low-stakes, and finding others who do the same.
The former was evident is his response to Saudi Arabia; the latter is on self-destructive display in his reaction to everything Russia.
Clinton is like Richard Nixon, who had a penchant for self-destructive acts that he was either oblivious to or blamed others for.
The American Psychiatric Association warns that attempts to change one's sexual orientation can lead to 'anxiety, depression, and self-destructive behavior,' including suicide.
It also meant that most retirement savers must now rely on an amateur - themselves - who is prone to many self-destructive behavioral biases.
The answer lies with the identity and allegiance of executives directly responsible for gulling the company into the immoral and self-destructive policy.
It's easy to imagine them as cells mutated into self-destructive monsters, but they are mostly just behaving as undifferentiated, immature cells do.
Chronic boredom is dangerous, linked with impulsivity and risky behavior, like reckless driving, gambling, drug and alcohol use, and other self-destructive behaviors.
Researchers have found that such children often bounce around among relatives, suffer in school and display self-destructive behaviors, such as cutting themselves.
But as she ages, the protagonist never evolves, continuing to narrate her self-destructive life in the same curmudgeonly voice, devoid of insight.
The writer, creator and star, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, plays a grieving, self-destructive owner of a failing guinea pig-themed cafe in London.
If I had a self-destructive young adult in my life, someone in real pain, this is probably the book I'd get her.
He adored her, and yet all his formidable power could not save the self-destructive singer, after years of drug use, from herself.
For the sake of democracy and freedom of inquiry in Hungary, Mr. Ader should not sign this dangerously self-destructive legislation into law.
There's no tonal instability in Roger Michell's taut staging of "Consent," a highly intelligent analysis of intelligent people behaving with self-destructive stupidity.
The antidote to rage and despair, with climate change the catalyst, is not individual self-destructive protest, but collective engagement in political action.
Many families see such legal action as the only way to interrupt the self-destructive cycle in which their loved ones are caught.
Feature From "Idiocracy" to "Silicon Valley," the writer and director has established himself as America's foremost chronicler of its own self-destructive tendencies.
An attempt to hold on to power by breaking with party tradition on leadership transition would be politically risky and potentially self-destructive.
But for all of Trump's self-destructive ways, there is little evidence that Democrats have found the right counterpunch to knock him out.
But I also don't underestimate that elite's capacity to retain a hold on power when their critics are self-marginalizing or self-destructive.
By and large, we tend to recognize the underlying xenophobia today, and that the policies it produced were wrong, bigoted, and self-destructive.
The performers' artlessness showed how we fail to see these basic problems and self-destructive tendencies, no matter how obvious or plainly stated.
But Ms. Kinsman and others in the industry said that restaurant work posed unique pressures that could contribute to self-destructive behavior, including suicide.
That experience didn't ruin my taste for Monopoly and its ability to tease out the self-destructive, greedy, unrestrained capitalist inside all of us.
Nature doesn't do anything by accident, and there's likely a very good reason for this odd, seemingly self-destructive behavior among brown widow males.
We engage in self-destructive behaviors or take refuge in avoidance as a way to get off the treadmill of our to-do list.
"Social media can be really self destructive for young girls in terms of living up to idolized body types and specific looks," she says.
She marries him, but while he's away in the Marines, her old self-destructive habits lure her back to the drinking and the drugs.
Women are also more likely to use self-destructive drug habits to create a sense of personal autonomy they otherwise find difficult to grasp.
And like with all of us, when you're on the move, it's those self-destructive tendencies that can potentially sabotage the whole damn thing.
Grace has spoken about how gender dysphoria led to self-destructive behaviors, and the difficulty of transitioning in both her public and private life.
Spicer would be doing a service to the president by resigning — if the president draws the right conclusions and changes his self-destructive behavior.
"The President who promised 'America First' has taken a self-destructive step that puts our nation last," said former secretary of state John Kerry.
This might be the ideal way to drive him, once and for all, into a self-destructive rage that will destroy his presidential aspirations.
It's also a wonky vehicle for discussions about everything from toxic masculinity and sexism to alcoholism and self-destructive demons: a philosophical stoner's dream.
August 29 Sabo initially dismissed Trump as a "Democrat," whose "self-destructive" behavior on the trail is going to guarantee Clinton the White House.
When teens take antidepressants, parents and doctors need to watch for signs of increased anxiety, agitation, aggression, impulsivity, insomnia, irritability or self-destructive behavior.
Maura's children are noisy and self-destructive enough that their personalities can overshadow hers, their propensity to openly embrace chaos masking her subtler flaws.
Pressure from conservative commentators over border wall funding last December led Trump to renege on congressional Republicans and force a self-destructive government shutdown.
While Donald Trump's message may be dark in the interest of fear-mongering, his success is proof enough of the nation's self-destructive currents.
Her Smell seems at times bent on deconstructing the mythology of the rockstar, the self-destructive genius whose romance and inspiration lies in havoc.
Those norms exist not only to protect the political parties from each other but also to protect them from their own self-destructive impulses.
What has really taken them over are seductive, self-destructive Nietzschean concepts of embracing pain and flirting with death as pathways to higher truths.
"I dug myself such a hole and made myself look so bad," he said, referring to years of self-destructive and sometimes violent behavior.
The five-part series follows the descent of the title character, from his traumatic childhood to his self-destructive adulthood, and his eventual recovery.
As a survivor of abuse as a child, she has a huge "shame" button, and has coped with an array of self-destructive behaviors.
But despite his self-destructive tendencies, he says he stayed off heroin and has ultimately been able to moderate his use of other drugs.
While I'd like to see Ruth get a love interest, I'm not sure it should be the self-destructive boss who's twice her age.
The problem is that this philosophy is based on an error about human beings and it leads to self-destructive behavior in all cases.
Girls and women in abusive relationships often suffer from low self-esteem and can fall into a self-destructive pattern of attracting more exploitation.
Mr. McConnell called Mr. Trump's comments "extremely self-defeating and self-destructive" because of their potential to sway judges to rule against Mr. Trump.
He seeks to recapture that fame while also navigating his web of equally narcissistic self-destructive friends and frenemies, humans and anthropomorphized animals alike.
There are relationships Sam tanks because she's self-destructive, and there are relationships that tank because most of the men she meets are awful.
There comes a time in most people's lives when a distinction has to be made between a benign habit and a self-destructive behavior.
As Gretchen and Jimmy spun around in their own self-destructive circles, Edgar sat just outside, clenching his fists, white-knuckling it through his days.
His presence infuses the images, their atmosphere poisoned by a toxic masculinity that is not merely self-destructive but threatens to take us all down.
Several of these war veterans killed themselves, were court-martialed, or engaged in other self-destructive behaviors due to the military's ineffective mental health policies.
Others may feel inspired to acknowledge and act on that deep-seated hunger for change in less self-destructive ways than the characters on screen.
Now, Disick and Richie's romance is still going strong a year later, which is surprising because Disick has a long history of self-destructive behavior.
Originally an outlet for Ray's unhappiness and tendencies towards self-destructive behavior, Teen Suicide was a deeply personal project never intended to reach an audience.
Team Clinton has been so sure of Trump's erratic and self-destructive behavior that it ceded the electoral stage to him a long time ago.
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's tax controversy and his self-destructive lack of discipline threaten to drain the Republican nominee of something he can't afford: time.
"I believe that all good things taken to an extreme can be self-destructive and that everything must evolve or die," he writes on LinkedIn.
The main idea behind the song is witnessing self-destructive behaviour in someone you love, that ultimately affects the people they care about the most.
In its profile of the exemplary self-destructive, working-class white guy circa 2016, the only box the movie left unchecked was a painkiller addiction.
Every Republican wants this President to succeed, and are desperately trying to assist him, but he can't help but indulge his own self-destructive habits.
Wednesday's announcement of new tariffs on steel and aluminum exports from Canada, Mexico, and the European Union is the latest bizarre and self-destructive move.
Liberals too often are reluctant to acknowledge that struggling, despairing people sometimes compound their misfortune by self-medicating or engaging in irresponsible, self-destructive behavior.
For those generations that cannot claim any personal experience with the destructive and self-destructive nature of revolutionary politics, moderation is neither inspiring nor justified.
Living in a van and in the shell of a house three months out of the year with no power, being totally self-destructive alcoholics.
Another is that Thérèse — a woman whose moral intensity seems to evolve before our eyes into potentially self-destructive passion — is played by Juliette Gréco.
When their antics are deemed entertaining, they're egged on and encouraged; when they turn self-destructive, they're chided for not taking better care of themselves.
In particular van Gogh's life has fed a narrative about art as a self-destructive undertaking, exemplified by his famous self-mutilation and subsequent suicide.
Her Smell seems at times bent on deconstructing the mythology of the rock star, the self-destructive genius whose romance and inspiration lies in havoc.
The Horsin' Around star was contemplating suicide after a long drug binge left his former, self-destructive co-star Sarah Lynn dead in his arms.
But in many others, sometimes on the same albums, he portrayed the gangster life as a desperate, self-destructive existence of fear and sudden death.
Long-term PTSD can lead to depression, anxiety, or developing phobias, as well as acting in a self-destructive manner through alcohol or drug abuse.
To the Editor: As a therapist I know that a crucial step in not repeating a self-destructive act is to acknowledge and grieve it.
Let's hope that this agreement is the beginning of other efforts to move towards a government that works, rather then one that is self-destructive.
"Fleabag" The first season of "Fleabag", which aired in 2016, followed an unnamed potty-mouthed, promiscuous and self-destructive young woman navigating life in London.
Irritable behavior, angry outbursts, and reckless or self-destructive behavior are hallmarks of PTSD, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which catalogues psychiatric illnesses.
Released last year, Fairy Dust stars Lo (as herself) and Lina Esco, founder of the Free the Nipple Movement, as her self-destructive alter-ego.
I've struggled with anxiety and depression, and throughout my teenage years I self harmed and had bulimia, so I had a lot of self-destructive habits.
"I feel obliged to at least do the best I can and not do anything really stupidly self-destructive if I can avoid it," he said.
Paula is doing the exact same thing that you and I do on a daily basis, she's just doing it in this really self-destructive manner.
Leading medical and mental health professional organizations denounce conversion therapy, noting that it poses significant risks to LGBTQ people, including depression, anxiety and self-destructive behavior.
It was born out of a funny kind of preoccupation I started to have, that everybody is self-destructive, which is a strange thing to notice.
The result is a real-time, lived experience of yourself relating to another person who can help you replace self-destructive patterns with more beneficial ones.
"Shutting down the government would be a self-destructive act, not to mention an act of political malpractice," Republican Representative Charlie Dent said in an interview.
They sell everything from "A is for Autism, F is for friend" to "Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors," along with therapeutic aids and accessories.
But to do so, you need to develop self-awareness about the self-destructive thoughts, behaviors, and feelings that prevent you from reaching your full potential.
Now, some of the United States' most unsparing critics are being weakened or sidelined by a combination of term limits, unpopularity and self-destructive economic policies.
"Faced with the fast pace of growing up today, some students are clearly distressed, engaging in binge drinking and other self-destructive behaviors," the authors wrote.
Garland's newest film is a heady mind-trip that explores humanity's self-destructive impulses, but it's also a walking tour of the gorgeous and the grotesque.
I was on a self-destructive path and for some reason I decided to break up with him rather than burn the bridge and move on.
"Ripping up the climate agreement that was reached in Paris would be reckless, counterproductive, self-destructive," Kerry told MSNBC's Chris Hayes during a Wednesday night interview.
The chronicling of Detroit rock and Iggy's self-destructive personality are the film's main focuses, with an abundance of supposedly candid interviews with the band's frontman.
It was the same feeling I get whenever I grab that final drink at last call, when I'm truly indulging some self-destructive and compulsive tendencies.
Norman Maine (Fredric March), a self-destructive movie star whose career is on the wane, gives her the break she needs; also they fall in love.
Indeed, if Trump continues to make self-destructive comments and Republicans respond by endorsing Johnson, Johnson could wind up as the de facto Republican standard-bearer.
"If you continue this self destructive path you will lose all your ardent supporters and the goodwill from diehard $tsla longs like me," the user tweeted.
And what a group — an assortment of eccentric, tragic and highly amusing women trying to free themselves from their obsessive, self-destructive pursuit of awful men.
And we should marshal professional support for teenagers who rely on self-destructive tactics, such as abusing substances or harming themselves, to cope with emotional discomfort.
At 71, Mr. Trump seems unlikely to discard a lifetime of operating habits and learn to stick to a plan and temper his self-destructive instincts.
Hillsborough came to symbolize what the government portrayed as self-destructive behavior that needed to be curbed through cultural and behavioral change rather than state assistance.
There's no way to change what happened, and "dwelling can be self-destructive, preventing you from enjoying the present and planning for the future," Morin wrote.
A military unit is like a living being, and a senior leader coming out as transgender in the wrong way could become a self-destructive virus.
And after that was the poetic ways of being self-destructive, the drinking too much, the self-sabotage, quitting jobs, getting fired, smoking, and doing coke.
No matter how many times the men of Sterling Cooper (Draper Pryce) tried, the series always sent them back to the self-destructive routines they knew best.
Pop is one of the most difficult, drug- and sex-addicted, out-of-control, angry, irrational, self-destructive musicians ever — and he's lived to tell about it.
Wild: Cheryl goes to therapy As Cheryl speaks to a counselor, we see a blunt, unapologetically self-destructive side of Witherspoon that we rarely encounter on-screen.
The conventional presumptions about sex work as a sinister, self-destructive profession just didn't match with what Tyrnauer was seeing in the men who'd worked alongside Bowers.
When he learns she already has a boyfriend, he does what any teenager would do: he gets self-destructive and parties with a bunch of other teenagers.
Pence was seen as defending Trump more staunchly during his self-destructive campaign moments than Christie, who faded in importance during the campaign, sources told NBC News.
They argue that Israel is headed on a self-destructive course, expanding settlements in the West Bank and choking off the possibility for a two-state solution.
Xinhua's description of democracy's self-destructive tendencies echoes that of a book published in 1991 called "America Against America" by a professor at Fudan University, Wang Huning.
That's the symbolism the subgenre is playing with: the alternately comforting and horrifying idea that maybe our most self-destructive or inexplicable actions are someone else's fault.
When he's confronted by a strong, assertive woman outside the mating arena, his synapses tend to short-circuit, leading him to odd and often self-destructive behavior.
Whether it's his history of bankrupting businesses or his tendency toward self-destructive outbursts, Trump is riddled with flaws that weigh heavily in the minds of voters.
In the past, this was self-destructive (drinking and sex) but overtime, I've learned to redirect the hunger that comes with rapid-fire thinking toward constructive ends.
The player is propelled by the same sort of inborn, anxious compulsion that feeds so many of the self-destructive behaviors that prevent people from letting go.
Sasha is the consummate literary sad woman, the superlative embodiment of an alluring silhouette: a woman contoured and whittled by her suffering, self-destructive and utterly destroyed.
And conservatives too often want to stop the conversation there, without acknowledging our society's irresponsible, self-destructive refusal to help children who are otherwise programmed for failure.
By December, he had triggered a self-destructive shutdown of the federal government in a failed bid to secure funding for a wall on the southern border.
C., antisocial nerd with a self-destructive streak) and Pink Guy (a sex-positive Lycra-clad alien with the same predilection for destruction, only he rapped, too).
But we can guess that John Boehner and Paul Ryan would have loved to be free of the irrational and self-destructive demands of ideologues like Reps.
Changes in prescription drug use -- beginning or ending antidepressants, for example, changing ADHD drugs or just changing doses -- may place children at risk for self-destructive behavior.
Charlie (Jonathan Gordon), living in a world of Champagne and tuxedo nights, must choose between his older international-pianist lover and his self-destructive, hedonist best friend.
To its credit, if the app senses critical issues, like a mental health crisis or self-destructive behaviors, it will point towards local treatment centers and therapists.
Disillusionment in the wake of the Summer of Love and the cocaine disco haze of the 70s fueled backlash in the form of self-destructive teenage anarchy.
It is when Mr. Trump is alone with his thoughts, and untethered from his campaign staff, that he has seemed to commit his most self-destructive acts.
The one thing Rebecca has learned for certain throughout CXG's run is that hanging your happiness on a partner's validation is a futile and self-destructive gesture.
Even well-meaning help is sometimes rejected, for we humans have an astonishing capacity for self-destructive behavior — just as society does, with policies like mass incarceration.
BOB COLACELLO We were doing cocaine not to be self-destructive but to stay up later and dance some more and hopefully meet someone to take home.
The implication of Drudge's tweet is that resisting evacuation isn't a bad, self-destructive move but a brave way for "deplorables" to stand up for the government.
It may be Mr. Margulies's point that people simply don't change, that chemistry is indeed fate, and we're determined to keep repeating the old, self-destructive patterns.
"You remind me of my past/That's why I know that this won't last," admits Julia Michaels, the songwriter who specializes in the self-destructive pop bummer.
In fact, Mr. Trump would be better positioned to accomplish these things if he observed rather than overran norms, which would curb his most self-destructive impulses.
What we try to do is to focus on asking the right questions, often about the unacknowledged internal conflicts that keep people locked in self-destructive cycles.
Mr. Robot scans more powerfully as a metaphor for self-destructive impulses when Elliot is battling him in real-time, even when the execution gets objectively nutty.
Many rivals have struggled to spar with Trump in debates and on Twitter but have found it difficult, demeaning and self-destructive to sink to his level.
On his list of newfound priorities is helping addicts before they go down the same dark, self-destructive road that defined Cameron's life for nearly two decades.
Various Trump defenders pursue the ludicrous strategy of blaming Clinton for colluding with Russia and the self-destructive tactic of launching escalated attacks against the free press.
Tony Stark needs to be at his most self-destructive, he needs to fail, and persevere in order for the rest of the Infinity Saga to land.
Instead, turn it over to someone a little less personally invested, a little less prone to outbursts, a little less, shall we say, loopy and self-destructive.
"The definition we have right now of tolerance in the German political landscape is self-deprecating to a degree that it's actually self-destructive," Mr. Wälder said.
There are rumors of the existence of a brother in the house, one Branwell, who shares his name with the most self-destructive of the Brontë siblings.
But the family's lives are thrown into turmoil after Tyler suffers a debilitating injury and a shocking revelation, and his anger starts manifesting in self-destructive ways.
But because of the president's self-destructive trade war against China, factories in Michigan are empty of activity and silos in Iowa are full of unsold soybeans.
" Weiss said he has decided to try to "break free from the self destructive patterns of behavior and drug abuse that have landed me at rock bottom.
JULIEN BAKER "Turn Out the Lights" (Matador) Julien Baker's first album testified to trauma and self-destructive tendencies in pristine, barely adorned ballads that could be shattering.
Meanwhile the girls themselves were all, to varying degrees, antiheroic: as self-destructive and narcissistic in their way as the embattled patriarchs familiar from other HBO productions.
Combine Trump's inexperience with a lifelong tendency to indulge in self-destructive behavior (see his many business bankruptcies) and you start to understand how the tweet storm began.
Dr. Ele Carpenter, leader of the Nuclear Culture Research Group, has become a key figure in the interdisciplinary discussion of, and artistic response to, mankind's self-destructive tendencies.
Still, Nadia must save a suicidally depressed Alan from his most dangerous thoughts, and Alan has to keep a self-destructive Nadia from getting hit by a cab.
His self-destructive behavior was a cause for concern for the rest of the roommates, especially since Harley was close to eight months pregnant with the couple's daughter.
Those close to the couple claim their union enabled self-destructive tendencies ("We were all bad into drugs" Lomas has revealed), while others whispered allegations of physical abuse.
Your book is obviously about the past, but it has just as much to say about the present, about why human beings are so strange and self-destructive.
Wisconsin exit polls gave further evidence, as if any were needed, that Trump's self-destructive behavior in the two weeks leading up to the vote cost him dearly.
The success of their first album, and the self-destructive hedonism that followed, wrought a second release intense enough to stand up to something as tortuous as puberty.
Try a smartphone app like Offtime, Moment, and Space (this one claims to learn your emotional triggers and collect data to catch you in a self-destructive act ).
But perhaps a more poignant thread focuses on toxic aspects of success and self-destructive behavior by comedians who "made it," many of whom have died too young.
But feeling like the only way to claim my independence is by determining my own destiny, even if that means being self-destructive, is something I still understand.
Our full coverage of the Games is here, including the self-destructive battle for the 26 Olympics and a meditation on the sometimes mystifying theatrics in synchronized swimming.
The self-destructive tensions between the Arab states have handed Iran opportunity after opportunity for spoiler operations, and Iran has inevitably taken advantage of every one of them.
The incident was dangerous and earned Bosnich considerable opprobrium, and rather summed him up in that, even at his best, he could be reckless, self-destructive and rash.
He seemed for years to be a stereotype of the jazz musician as self-destructive hedonist, arrested and imprisoned on narcotics charges and crimes related to drug use.
What is different this time is that Mr. Trump, mired in self-destructive controversies and record-low approval ratings, needs Mr. Kelly more than Mr. Kelly needs him.
Perhaps technologically advanced societies do flicker on and off like fireflies, but it's not a sign that they're self-destructive; it's just a sign that they got cable.
Plus, she talks about why ballerinas&apos intensive training requires them to be world-class athletes — not the self-destructive, troubled artists you often see in Hollywood movies.
The main point is not to hound self-destructive losers so much as to identify people who need addiction services, according to Jim Maney, the council's executive director.
That suggests a self-destructive bidding war has ended, and will force the Premier League to look to new bidders and international rights to make up the difference.
As for those without a fixed part in the new scheme of things, they're the same old kvetchers of yore, doomed to circular philosophizing and self-destructive drinking.
Denying care based on addiction, a medical illness that manifests in behavior that is often self-destructive, violates the most basic tenets of physician ethics (beneficence, autonomy, justice).
The BBC/Amazon series follows a self-destructive, sex-obsessed young woman, known only as the titular Fleabag, as she deals with grief, loneliness, and faith in London.
Elon Musk's "self-destructive" behavior is a major concern for Tesla shareholders, and perhaps the board should put the CEO on a short medical leave, CNBC's said Tuesday.
"I've done bad things in my life — I've gone down the same old roads that a lot of people do, being self-destructive with bad behavior," he said.
Since formally claiming the Republican nomination last month, Trump has committed a series of potentially self-destructive blunders, dominating the news cycle with a succession of negative headlines.
Eventually, your brain becomes what Michael Pollan has aptly called an "uncertainty-reducing machine," obsessed with securing the ego and locked in uncontrollable loops that reinforce self-destructive habits.
The Sun will oppose Pluto on July 9, or 20, if you're on the East Coast, again bringing up tension—watch for paranoia, control issues, and self-destructive behavior.
It deals with honest introspection and its painful consequences—the opening of the floodgates to the traumas that led us down this self-destructive path, and the subsequent fallout.
As self-destructive as Trump's public statements have been, they are made all the worse by his consistent alienation of those he has asked to serve in his government.
Obviously, a viral video is the way to kick off their ploy, so they make an escalating series of dares to celebrities to do self-destructive and gross stuff.
Sadness is still the show's dominant theme, but giving more time to other characters lets creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg examine flavors of the emotion beyond BoJack's self-destructive depression.
But Democrats, racial minorities, gays and lesbians, or conservative "Never Trumpers" who decide to continue to demonize Trump like these protesters are making a big and self-destructive mistake.
This season, with her horrifying Pennywise the Clown haircut (the result of Piscatella brutally pulling out her hair), Red's best, and most self destructive, qualities are on full display.
If you're brave, you can reach 7.5 mph, just fast enough to elicit swerves and expletives when you're barreling down the bike lane like a self-destructive Paul Blart.
Through therapy, I realized that I wasn't uniquely depraved or stupid: Though refusing to see my own self-destructive shit for many years was pretty dumb, it wasn't special.
Signal, another widely used messenger application, recently had a bug in its system, in which messages didn't actually delete when users opted in for the self-destructive messages feature.
Of course, there are good and bad forms of anxiety — the kind that warns you about legitimate dangers and the kind that spirals into dark and self-destructive thoughts.
So Sanders and Clinton are arguing about soda taxes — Clinton for, as a way to raise money for good stuff while discouraging self-destructive behavior, Sanders against, because regressive.
And they've become an issue in US politics as then-candidate and now-President Donald Trump has held up Europe's acceptance of Syria's refugees as dangerous and self-destructive.
But when Javier bungles a job, Letty is forced to face the consequences of being in a relationship with a killer, as well as her own self-destructive habits.
"After her appointment as secretary of state, she sought to hire Sidney Blumenthal, one of the longtime loyalists who fed her most paranoid and self-destructive tendencies," Chait wrote.
Czerczak realized that the hatred at the gang's core was ultimately self-destructive, and he has long since turned his back on the gang and its neo-fascist politics.
Once we learn that this is Issa's unconscious move toward finally leaving We Got Y'all, ignoring her work duties appears less self-destructive than it initially seems to be.
Headstrong and willful even at the best of times, she becomes self-destructive at others: After her love affair with an artist turns sour, she tries to kill herself.
She was first noticed as a writer and producer on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," leading a controversial season that sent its demon-staking heroine into a self-destructive spiral.
"What critics said: "Zendaya is reinvented as the self-destructive, self-loathing Rue, in what is a truly astonishing, mesmerising performance, upending every expectation of what she could do.
He responded as a weak man, at the bottom of a self-destructive spiral, and with an addict's self-serving delusion that the communications were all just Internet fantasy.
But it is a lot harder to comprehend why his tweets and statements, rather than simply making his points, are consistently delivered in a tone that is self-destructive.
After tying Gary Hall, Jr. for that 50-meter gold in Sydney, he retired early and followed a self-destructive path that included a suicide attempt, homelessness, and drugs.
Two hundred years later — the book is set in the 1970s — Johnson's drug-addled characters discover an equal but opposite sublimity in submission to the self-destructive dictates of anomie.
"It's a daily challenge to work with some patients that can be self-destructive," the surgeon from Houston Obesity Surgery, who performs all of the procedures on My 600-lb.
What Oxitec's scientists have done is modify A. aegypti mosquitoes so that they contain a self-destructive gene — these mosquitoes will eventually die unless they receive antibiotics in a lab.
THE French have an expression, l'appel du vide ("the call of the void"), to refer to the compulsive urge to do something self-destructive, such as leap off a cliff.
Despite almost abusive neglect by his parents—the dazzling but self-destructive Conservative politician Lord Randolph and his beautiful, rich American wife—Churchill saw in himself the possibility of greatness.
But dig through the goop of blood and gore, and what you ultimately end up with is the story of a relationship so closely entwined that it becomes self-destructive.
Everything Madame Gandhi is singing about here, about giving yourself an emotional makeover and letting go of self-destructive behaviors, is seriously helping to set my intentions for next week.
Won Yoo-chul, floor leader for the ruling Saenuri party, on Monday said South Korea should adopt "peaceful" nuclear weapons and missiles against North Korea's "fearful and self-destructive" ones.
And his self-destructive behavior was reaffirmed minutes later during the daily White House briefing, when much of the questioning centered on the multiple crises spun by Trump's own statements.
The fact that senior administration officials have been trying to block Mr. Trump's uninformed policy impulses, and mute his self-destructive anger and narcissism, has been reported hundreds of times.
The outline of a strategy seems clear: Mexico must communicate to the United States just how valuable their relationship is, and how self-destructive it could be to undermine it.
Given all this, why would they start out with such a tepid and self-destructive proposal as the one laid out by the administration and the congressional leadership last week?
That's typical of Chekhov, for whom understanding the worst of that aggravating and self-destructive collective known as humankind did not exclude embracing it, enjoying it and even loving it.
But if we look at the Republican primary last night for Minnesota's Second District, it highlights just how self-destructive the GOP has been when left to its own devices.
"  Newt Gingrich, typically a Trump defender, lamented the nominee's "self-destructive" actions, while surrogate Ben Carson attempted to paper over the controversy by calling Trump "pro-unity within the party.
Morrissey's innovation was to bring punk's bluntness to his lyrics, to strip away pop reassurance and admit to emotions that could be bleak, abject, petty, angry, contentious or self-destructive.
But Branwell also has the misfortune of being merely reasonably bright with a self-destructive streak, while his sisters are all brilliant and have deeply committed work ethics to boot.
Approaching my door, clutching several bags of groceries, I'd fumbled with the keys, lost hold of the bags and started a self-destructive rant as apples rolled down the driveway.
In a clip from the '70s, she walks along the beach near her Malibu home, succinctly analyzing the self-destructive arrogance of the era's male-dominated rock-n-roll culture.
The Knapps and many of the kids on the bus—and millions of Americans across the country—made terrible, self-destructive choices about using drugs or dropping out of school.
President Donald Trump is calling the U.S. tax code "self-destructive" and says he'll work with Congress on a plan to simplify it and "dramatically" reduce income taxes for Americans.
On the contrary, they seemed to be so unaware of their self-destructive tendencies that they saw no need to curb them or put more adults in the inner circle.
The characters' sex lives were not remotely "safe"; they were porn-haunted and self-destructive, a mess of S.T.D. fears and dubiously consensual incidents and sudden marriages and stupid infidelities.
Instead, the monologue is now delivered to us by Mr. Robot, Elliot's more outwardly self-destructive alter ego, who has become a weird caretaker of Elliot in the final season.
Last year, the company made news when it proposed a Florida-based trial of a self-destructive mosquito—designed to stop the spread of Zika virus in native Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
But governments allow their citizens the freedom to do many potentially self-destructive things: to go bungee-jumping, to ride motorcycles, to own guns, to drink alcohol and to smoke cigarettes.
But if the Netflix check was inked while the pair were still fully on the Disney payroll, it may count as one of the most self-destructive development deals in history.
What makes the play so sneakily resonant is how Mr. Askins exposes the base impulses, the sexual, self-destructive, potentially violent ones, that just about everyone harbors to some small degree.
And we can want to kick off what psychologists call "stimulus-response behaviors," and the dopamine they can shoot through our bodies, whether or not what we're doing is self-destructive.
On the other hand, something as cartoonishly horrible, self-destructive, and downright dumb as saying Snapchat is "only for rich people" is, I'd like to think, a little hard to believe?
" Asked last night if he thinks Paul has grown out of this self-destructive cycle, all Neistat would say was "I believe now that he understands the consequences of his actions.
BOSTON — Marcus Smart is many things, including the father of every "Marcus Smart Play"—thrilling, borderline-spiritual events that can be self-destructive and immeasurably beneficial at the exact same time.
It's hard to believe Trump could be so self-destructive as to do this, especially considering the serious legal implications his tweets are already having on other issues facing his administration.
Trump began his latest venture into the bizarre and self-destructive by insulting a Gold Star mother and Gold Star father of an Iraq war hero who happened to be Muslim.
But throughout the majority of its new season, Black Mirror finds hope in the proposition that, despite the odds and our own self-destructive impulses, there's some fight in us still.
And yet, they are poised for massive gains in the 2018, thanks to the fact that the president is an incompetent idiot who keeps doing self-destructive and possibly criminal things.
But the sniping frustrates some Democrats allied with neither camp, who see it as self-destructive and pointless — even as they also agree there is plenty of blame to go around.
"Our new members promised to get results on the issues their constituents care about — not to delay these efforts while they are dragged into a self-destructive leadership battle," he adds.
It seems wildly self-destructive not to prepare for debates that will shape not only his future, and the future of his brand, but also the future of his alleged party.
" As our reviewer, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, wrote, the novel swells "with wisdom about the self-destructive longing for paternal approval and the devastating consequences of clinging to rotten models of masculinity.
Voters in Florida have the chance to approve a cutting-edge study in mosquito-borne disease prevention: a trial of genetically modified mosquitoes that contain genes that make them self-destructive.
Health professionals reject the practice Leading medical and mental health professional organizations have denounced conversion therapy, noting it poses significant risks to LGBTQ people, including depression, anxiety and self-destructive behavior.
John A. Farrell, a Nixon biographer, said most other presidents managed to contain or disguise their paranoid elements, but it drove Johnson and Nixon to extremes that were ultimately self-destructive.
"And yet he compulsively responded to this teenage stranger too, under his own name as always, with his self-destructive behavior..." The defense maintains that Weiner is not a sexual predator.
For Mr. Weiner, the disclosure of his tawdry communications with the girl was another in a long list of self-destructive acts that largely destroyed his marriage and his political career.
There is something strangely satisfying about seeing men take out their rage in ways that are largely off-limits to women, all while demonstrating the self-destructive nature of their violence.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge&aposs tragicomedy "Fleabag," which follows a self-destructive, sex-obsessed young woman dealing with grief, loneliness, and faith in London, was one of the biggest shows of 2019.
At an East Coast college where he has come to teach he encounters Fiona, an anxious and self-destructive senior who is given to testing her limits and those of others.
What if reason is not the driving force of human history and, just as often, we act irrationally, out of resentment, anger, spite, frustration, envy, even out of self-destructive impulse?
Newton's allure makes her robot host one of the most relatable and multidimensional characters in the show and saved Westworld from growing as self-aware and self-destructive as its characters.
The more we get to know Don Draper — the man, the constructed myth, the self-destructive legend — the less surprising it is that he returns again and again to an Old Fashioned.
" The intrigue: Via The Washington Post, "The lawsuit could amplify calls for Tesla to install a high-ranking executive or co-captain who could keep Musk's more self-destructive instincts in check.
And even though his self-destructive experiment pays off, it also unhinges Nirmali and her desires, culminating into a shock ending that reimagines filmmaking in ways that invite — and deserve — rapt interpretations.
Gayheart, 20183, recently opened up about the accident on The Only One in the Room podcast, saying she considered taking her own life in the aftermath by way of "self-destructive" habits.
Earlier this month, the Taliban told Trump in an open letter that the military situation in Afghanistan was "far worse than you realize", and sending in more troops would be self-destructive.
After a wildly productive junior year, Marnell spends her senior year spiraling into ever more self-destructive behavior and is finally expelled six weeks before her graduation in 2001, five months pregnant.
But you can't edit the wars out, first of all because they're still being waged, and second of all because self-destructive masculinity is the stock-in-trade of all armed conflict.
While his older work centered on carnal party themes, ranging from seductive to self-destructive, Malibu focuses on the complex realities of his past, and the pleasure he takes in the present.
Noah Cyrus and Lil Xan are the latest of many celebrities whose relationships we've been able to track in excruciating, TMI-filled, self-destructive detail, thanks to their oversharing on social media.
To this end, the Family First Prevention Service Act passed this year prioritizes keeping children in stable homes by providing help for families struggling with drug addiction or other self-destructive behaviors.
In essence, addiction occurs when these brain systems are focused on the wrong objects: a drug or self-destructive behavior like excessive gambling instead of a new sexual partner or a baby.
"He responded as a weak man, at the bottom of a self-destructive spiral, and with an addict's self-serving delusion that the communications were all just Internet fantasy," the defense wrote.
The first challenge, though, is to get emotionally damaged veterans to acknowledge their hidden agony and seek professional help instead of trying to suppress it, often by engaging in self-destructive behaviors.
However, it is self-destructive and damaging to America for the president to constantly attack, criticize, berate or undermine the work of legal or congressional authorities investigating the Russian crimes against democracy.
The ways the games sometimes don't feel right, or the little micro-managerial tasks you fall into the habit of performing in order to keep your soldiers from doing something self-destructive.
As she lies on the mattress nude for days at a time, that first week gradually expanding to nearly a month, what becomes apparent is that this woman is completely self-destructive.
Because Trump is Trump, I think it's more reasonable to see this behavior as of a piece with all his other irrational-seeming, self-destructive behavior on questions unrelated to l'affaire Russe.
I just have absolute faith in Donald Trump that if Trump fatigue starts to set in, he will do something so self-destructive and crazy that he will grab back our attention.
The film — fictional, yet so true — tackles the enduring myth of the artistic genius as a tortured, self-destructive, solitary outlaw; at the same time, it recognizes, painfully, the capriciousness of success.
Paul Scully, Collingswood, N.J. RE: MIKE JUDGE Willy Staley profiled Mike Judge, the creator of "Idiocracy" and co-creator of "Silicon Valley," as America's foremost chronicler of its own self-destructive tendencies.
So, well into their 0003s, they undertook two new volumes that clarified some psychological mysteries, dealt more charitably with O'Neill's parents and judged O'Neill's drinking and other self-destructive excesses more harshly.
To better understand what exactly happened here — not just why the revamped company failed, but what set it down its comically self-destructive path — it's best to start with Helios and Matheson.
CNN obtained a 2016 report from the Florida Department of Children and Families that said Cruz engaged in self-destructive behavior and began cutting his arms after a breakup with a girlfriend.
"'Things Change' details a more self-destructive time in my life in Montreal, coming to terms with being the one in the relationship that had a harder time letting go," explains Grandson.
The Jake LaMotta in that film (played by Robert De Niro) is a deeply flawed human being with a self-destructive streak but some legitimate fighting talent and a resolute stubbornness under fire.
But given Trump's penchant for launching into a self-destructive rage every time an act of rebellion embarrasses him, it could also inspire the White House into an ill-advised act of revenge.
"I was having a terrible moment with my husband in our relationship, and I was extremely hurt by him and extremely angry at him, and so I was feeling self-destructive," she expresses.
They seem to have a total lack of self-reflection, which, for most of the show, keeps them self-centered and naively self-destructive; they are children living in a world of adults.
If we're unlucky, the Trump exploit is just the first example of how modern media has evolved into a self-destructive monster, able only to make its own problems worse through endless repetition.
This asymmetry is at the heart of why the Trump administration can afford to be self-destructive in its tariff regime while China cannot indulge in similar costs to score trade negotiation points.
It's jarring to witness boldly self-destructive antiheroines make a mess of their lives, even as the more absurd and delusional aspects of their stories soften the blow of spending time with them.
While online communities can also serve as a vital support system for anyone engaged in self-destructive behaviors, the wrong kind of peer support can backfire, reinforcing the behaviors or even popularizing them.
We don't properly understand the nature of the problem, so the self-destructive impulse, instead of being inner-directed, as it is in Japan, Europe, any of the older cultures, becomes outer-directed.
It stands to be a major breakthrough—the first time a gene drive had been achieved in mammals—and New Zealand is one of the places the self-destructive mice might be deployed.
According to Reason, Parker's card was reinstated in 1953, but he died in 1955—partly from conditions related to stress and self-destructive tendencies built up during his two years without a card.
Big Little Lies capped off a controversial second season with a self-destructive finale that ripped apart the tenuous bonds of the "Monterey Five," so the city has dubbed its conspiratorial suburban moms.
Their constant reinforcement only feeds their boss' hubris, prompting him to do self-destructive things like seek a "60 Minutes" interview and leak an assessment of conditions contrary to the White House's wishes.
Dr. Eve advises against making an appointment at your local addiction clinic, urging self-destructive sexters to seek out a good healthcare provider who can help work through issues without piling on shame.
If some turn to an easy and self-destructive alternative, be it conservative politics or opioid painkillers, it isn't because they lack the intelligence or strength of character to improve their own lot.
That night, Guy was feeling desperate, and he decided to perform "The Things That I Used to Do," a hit by one of his idols, an eccentric, self-destructive musician named Guitar Slim.
If this sounds familiar, that's because it is: Last season, Molly had a similar realization with regards to her parents' marriage, though her response was much more drastic and self-destructive than Lawrence's.
Foreshadowing aside, the film spends 174 minutes fawning over the protagonist, and handling his misogyny, violent behaviour and self-destructive acts like an indulgent parent allowing their toddler to wreak havoc in public.
But it will only be able to do so, and mend its currently tattered, siloed and self-destructive state, if all sides agree to lay down their arms and work, with passion, together.
The woman — her name is Clara Salvemini — is the glamorous, good-hearted, and mysteriously self-destructive daughter of a Pugliese construction baron, but her biographical details are the least important thing about her.
In other words, they are men who see their own lives as wasted, and who then set out to lay waste to the lives of others around them in a self-destructive conflagration.
What we've seen in just this one Trump scandal -- and there are many more -- suggests that the President is incapable of fulfilling his duties and may even be driven by self-destructive impulses.
Van Ness also opens up in his memoir about having been abused by an older boy at a young age, which "planted the seed for other self-destructive behaviors," according to the Times.
If young men don't get healthy approval from a father or father figure, they will chase it in a number of unhealthy and self-destructive ways that destroy them and the people around them.
She will look to see whether or not there is a mental illness at play, for instance, or whether the person has suffered from abuse or self-destructive behavior like drug or alcohol addiction.
" After detailing her attempts to put a stop to self-destructive behavior, she continues: "For the first time, I forced myself to admit that I had a problem — indeed, that I was a problem.
Suicide stories are dangerous in a way dystopian stories are not, because they invite their audience to identify with someone who is suicidal, and to vicariously experience that person's suffering and self-destructive impulses.
Her exasperated sighs, panicked energy, and crazed stares into her recreations when the end product doesn't meet her expectations make up the self-destructive passion that everyone's felt at least once in their lives. 
And the presence of a smuggler named Don West (Bones' Ignacio Serricchio) signals that the screening process is far from perfect, and that humanity's self-destructive nature isn't limited to the poor and uneducated.
I thought that's what people in recovery did; I thought if I looked at porn then I was gonna go down this terrible path and be self-destructive all over again and lose control.
The President's fury was first sparked when he was challenged by reporters on his handling of Charlottesville, evidence of how Trump's extreme sensitivity to personal slights sometimes leads him into politically self-destructive behavior.
The girl reflects the self-destructive nature of separatist efforts and the need to resist the narrative of "securing a motherland" from the oppressor so as to avoid unwittingly becoming the oppressor one abhors.
It explicitly signposted Quentin and Eliot's story as one of romantic love, one where they would kiss and express their love for each other and it wouldn't be a weird self-destructive one-off.
But Mackenzie's film has much more to say about the outlaw urge, and what it means to be a criminal for a cause, or to make positive choices that take selfish, self-destructive forms.
Essay The first time I read Jean Rhys's "Good Morning, Midnight," I was 353 and deeply committed to a life of volcanic feeling: doomed love affairs, binge drinking and other tentatively self-destructive hobbies.
Many fans admired Lee for his brash fearlessness (he's now a candidate for governor of Vermont), but the man we meet in this film isn't particularly likable or charming, just annoying and self-destructive.
Trump is far too incendiary in his manner of speaking, throwing around dangerous and self-destructive taunts about "Second Amendment people" taking out Hillary, or President Obama and Hillary being the founders of ISIS.
Having either the world's most punitively misconceived microeconomic policies or the world's most mindlessly self-destructive macroeconomic policies would be bad enough, but having both of them at the same time is just killer.
Joe Cardamone was the driving force and face of The Icarus Line, one of Los Angeles's most reviled and revered bands of the last 20 years and also one of its most self-destructive.
Where Mr. McGahn privately referred to Mr. Trump as "King Kong" and sought to curb some of his potentially self-destructive impulses, Mr. Cipollone has been described as more temperamentally agreeable to the president.
It is a moment of perfect symbolism: a man without a conviction for a country without a direction, a man of self-destructive tendencies for a country in the vise of a crippling decision.
The book's resulting fixation on substance abuse among the working poor might turn off progressive readers who would note that wealthier people are seldom put under a microscope for the same self-destructive behaviors.
It is curious that a movie set against a backdrop of black resistance and rebellion — however inchoate and self-destructive its expression may have been — should become a tale of black helplessness and passivity.
They become more prone to self-destructive ("Hurting myself isn't a big deal, since I don't count anyway") and antisocial behaviors ("I might be doing something bad, but at least I've got your attention").
In the TV series, we observe the mortifying life of a self-destructive 30-something incapable of adult self-reliance -- the title is a nickname which hints at the depths of her self-loathing.
This budding friendship would take a self-destructive turn during the Pussy Cats days—by which point Nilsson had also adopted Ringo as a drinking buddy and musical collaborator—but we'll get to that later.
But if I think about it more, it's just an obsessive loop I keep playing in my mind that I can't get caught up in because it's totally self-destructive and not helpful moving forward.
Although medical professionals have long viewed over- and undereating as separate issues, the former rooted in a lack of willpower and the latter in a self-destructive need for control, Satter sees them as related.
Their piece is actually named after a 1988 book by psychologist Joy Davidson who, at the time, was seen to have "liberated" women from self-destructive behaviors catalyzed by the gendered conditioning of homebound life.
It's still a battle for me to stay out of self-destructive behaviors and music is a way to approach this aspect of my body, psyche and history with positiveness, that's a choice I make.
In fact, you could edit the war out of several of these stories and be left with fairly seamless tales of self-destructive masculinity in the tradition of Andre Dubus, Tobias Wolff, and David Gates.
I'm fortunate enough to have managed to forge a successful career as an artist since my homeless days, but being isolated and self-destructive for so long is not an easy thing to get over.
" Gingrich has been a strong supporter of Trump but has also criticized him in recent days, calling some of his behavior "self-destructive" and saying he needs to "grow into the size of the job.
She is beyond the manic pixie dream girl archetype; she's a truly unwell woman, one who barely succeeds in hiding her self-destructive interior behind blown-out hair, leather jackets, and a light Buddhism practice.
At every turn on Thursday night, he avoided turning a colorful and remarkable biography — populated by a volcanic father, a self-destructive brother, his own dizzying career highs and mortifying lows — into vivid, poignant storytelling.
Sure, self-destructive behaviors are a strand of poverty (of every complexion), but blacks are cleareyed about this: 86 percent of blacks say that family breakup is a reason for difficulties of African-Americans today.
Before puzzling why any institution would do something so self-destructive and attributing the cause to irrationality or worse, we should consider perhaps that the system is now working just as many people would prefer.
Rosselli is at her most insecure and self-destructive and, for the first time, readers may feel that they are reading something private, and that a key is needed to contextualize what is being read.
Many spaceflight advocates think the Overview Effect offers a powerful antidote to these self-destructive behaviors because it starkly exposes our precarious cosmic position, and so inspires great respect for our planet and its inhabitants.
Or here's another creative idea: A British company called Oxitec has genetically modified A. aegypti mosquitoes so that they contain a self-destructive gene — these mosquitoes will die unless they receive antibiotics in a lab.
" Brian Walsh, a former adviser to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said that Mr. Trump's attacks on his own party were "shortsighted and self-destructive," but that "unfortunately, he shows no sign of letting up.
He has exhibited, in the last year or so, a self-destructive streak that has included a conviction for drunken-driving and a fight outside a Manchester nightclub that left him with damaged ankle ligaments.
"It's gotten to the point where I've had to point blank ask them if there's anything they think I'm doing that's self-destructive or worth examining, and I get nothing out of it," Kaye said.
Breaking down the history of trauma in the family and turning a moment of recklessness into an analytical conversation seems to push Joanie, however slowly, into a place to think about her self-destructive tendencies.
Those who are puzzled by this self-destructive act should understand that the past suggests that Trump was so committed to selling his alternative theory of 2016, and defeating Biden, that he had no choice.
Trump may not ultimately be removed from office, but the moment captured Trumpian defiance, and his sometimes self-destructive behavior, in its purest form and in one of the most perilous moments of his presidency.
If you witness self-destructive behavior within your family, within your peer group or through the media, you may be at greater risk for suicidal behavior yourself, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
" In recent years, leading scientific and medical groups have disputed the notion that sexual orientation can be altered, and the American Psychiatric Association has argued that conversion therapy can cause "depression, anxiety and self-destructive behavior.
The symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder include uncontrolled memories of a traumatic event, anxiety and panic—"hyperarousal" is the technical term—depression, avoiding anything that's a reminder of the event, self-destructive behavior, and more.
His aggressive response to federal agents raiding his personal attorney's office and his comments to reporters not ruling out firing special counsel Robert Mueller, they fear, indicate Trump's willingness to go down a self-destructive path.
Reince reportedly told Whipple that he, First Lady Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and communications director Hope Hicks have all tried to put a stop to the president's self-destructive Twitter habits to no avail.
While each film share similarities, Streisand and Kristofferson's version based its roots on the 1937 version — with Kristofferson playing the self-destructive musician John Norman Howard, who falls in love with aspiring singer Esther Hoffman (Streisand).
Plenty of gamers hear "gaming disorder" and turn up their noses or get defensive of their hobby, but they likely haven't experienced the kind of self-destructive dependence on gaming that I and others have experienced.
They can wait for him when he enters his offices at Trump Tower, lock the door behind him, sit him down and explain why they are worried that his media addiction is making him self-destructive.
To Wilding and others in her field, the impulse to do better may start out as healthy and goal-oriented, but the dynamics of the internet can turn it into something counterproductive, if not self-destructive.
Pimco's formal response to Mr Gross's complaint puts him on notice that it plans to expose embarrassing details about what it calls his "self-destructive" final months at the company he helped build over 37 years.
As FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver notes: The potential for House Republicans to do electorally self-destructive things as they compete to see who's the MAGA-iest potential Speaker in the land seems like an underplayed story.
These growing GOP attacks against the FBI are politically self-destructive and legally disastrous, because they suggest to reasonable people that they have no confidence that Trump and other Trump associates will be cleared by investigators.
And so, of course, the Yankees cannot help but be emblematic of everything that characterizes us as a nation and as an idea: a thing gargantuan and heedless, invincible and yet bizarrely fragile and self-destructive.
And few people had more ability to blunt the president's potentially self-destructive impulses than Hope Hicks, his communications director, who has been one of his closest advisers since the earliest days of his 2016 campaign.
Dariush Mehrjui's "The Cow" (1969), an austere yet deeply empathetic case study in the brutalizing effects of a tragic loss, is an obvious precursor to Farhadi's stories about the self-destructive behavior of men in extremis.
The Giants' owners, John Mara and Steve Tisch, who should not escape blame for Tuesday's fiasco, should be asking themselves whether the handling of Manning is the last clumsy, self-destructive act for McAdoo and Reese.
Dearborn includes elements of both studies in her capacious volume, but she ends with another portrait of the artist as a victim of both his self-destructive urges and a genetic fate he could not prevent.
His ex-wife, played by Liv Tyler in a callback to her Armageddon days, always told him he had a self-destructive streak, and, despite a shockingly low resting heart rate, he struggles with his rage.
Starring Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson, the HBO adaptation "Sharp Objects" gracefully shows the inner turmoil of a self-destructive character that has gone through immense trauma, while keeping viewers intrigued with the ongoing murder investigation.
Whether you are feeling bad because you think your peers are doing better than you, or you are building yourself up based on their failures, both are unproductive and have the potential to be self-destructive.
"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 83% (season 1)What critics said: "Zendaya is reinvented as the self-destructive, self-loathing Rue, in what is a truly astonishing, mesmerising performance, upending every expectation of what she could do.
And I think that expansionist mentality is very self-destructive, especially given the kind of precarious relationship we now have to the ecosystem here on Earth, because it allows us to imagine that Earth is disposable.
Experiments by Professor Shafir at Princeton and others have documented how poverty itself leads people to make self-destructive decisions, perhaps by forcing them to focus attention on satisfying immediate needs to the exclusion of other considerations.
Video of Trump's inauguration cuts directly to footage of Vladimir Putin, Americans voting, robed KKK members, and police attacking Black Lives Matter protesters, as CSM muses on the illusion of free will and humanity's self-destructive nature.
It's a question of whether the House and the Senate and the executive branch can get together and make Americans feel safer and have a fiscal and monetary policy that isn't self-destructive, which currently it is.
I asked Mukunda why Trump's unique business background has ill-equipped him for this job, and why his self-destructive behavior makes sense when you consider how Trump has operated in the private sector his entire career.
Wayne and I shared that common affliction plaguing single men with limited prospects and self-destructive tendencies: we regarded our pasts with such love and loss that every day forward was a butter knife to the gut.
Availability: In some theaters Nominated for: Animated Short This 143-minute, Kickstarter-backed autobiographical short film from Canadian graphic artist Robert Valley portrays his 25-year friendship with a self-destructive but charismatic figure known as Techno.
At this point the insights he has provided us into his psyche should leave no doubt that he will lead us down a dark and self-destructive road if we are foolish enough to elect him president.
As it happens, the world economy — of which the US is the leading beneficiary (despite President Trump's self-destructive trade wars) — relies on an uninterrupted flow of oil from the Persian Gulf to keep energy prices low.
We see Rick stifling his heartbreak to help a self-destructive Michonne get out, as the sword-wielding warrior chops down zombie after zombie in her attempt to salvage the gazebo Carl loved as a hangout spot.
Therapists both within and outside the Department of Veterans Affairs increasingly recognize moral injury as the reason so many returning vets are self-destructive and are not helped, or only partly helped, by established treatments for PTSD.
When anchor Jon Karl noted that the administration has "self-destructive" tendencies that overshadow its accomplishments, Christie said he does not expect Trump to change his behavior or rhetoric regardless of what's happening with the White House.
Emails presented in court Wednesday showed Raniere's obsession with knowing every detail of Daniela's interaction with Myers, and his insistence she atone in outrageous and self-destructive ways for the "ethical breach" of being interested in him.
What I didn't realize at the time was that these common pursuits were triggering a darker rebellious part of myself that would eventually make itself known in starkly self-destructive terms, following years of suppression and neglect.
Callie, a principled rape survivor with a self-destructive streak, and Mariana, a bubbly shape-shifter, were two of the richest characters on "The Fosters," played by two of the strongest actresses, Maia Mitchell and Cierra Ramirez.
"Weakening a law that works, that Italians are respecting and is doing some good to children and to the health system is a self-destructive strategy," said Roberto Burioni, a virologist at San Raffaele University in Milan.
He was painted as much dirtier, though, and he and Hillary responded by adopting an assumption that the press would target them no matter what, and so a self-destructive secrecy, self-righteousness, and fatalism took hold.
Gawker might have been foolhardy, reckless and ultimately self-destructive, but it was also courageous, and with the ascent of frequent Gawker target Donald Trump to the presidency, courage in media is needed now more than ever.
It is said that the Buddha taught metta as an antidote to fear, which appealed to me as a newly single woman struggling to unpack a lifetime of toxic internalized messages and knee-jerk self-destructive behaviors.
Kushner, who has come under widespread criticism for failing to tame his father-in-law's most self-destructive impulses and for taking on too many responsibilities, has told people that he's content being out of the spotlight.
While each of the films shares similarities, Streisand and Kristofferson's version based its roots on the 1937 version, with Kristofferson playing the self-destructive musician John Norman Howard, who falls in love with aspiring singer Esther Hoffman (Streisand).
We are less likely to take things personally, make assumptions, and internalize the comments or behavior of others, which reduces the need to act out in negative or self-destructive behaviors and decreases symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Both parts of this story fit perfectly together: Maggie works to heal some of the trauma that she's endured over the years and help her new friends, while their adversary is caught in his own self-destructive mindset.
Ackerman McQueen argues that the NRA isn't the victim of extortion or double-billing, but of a law firm that's taking the gun group on a "self-destructive path" — referencing the NRA's efforts to sue New York State.
Practically every generation since the advent of cinema has had their own version of the fateful tale of the rise of a talented young female star at the expense of her has-been,self-destructive male lover's career.
The first season established the wretchedness of its lovers: Jimmy the one-hit-wonder writer and Gretchen the frustrated music publicist, two unstoppable self-destructive assholes who are comfortable only when they wage war against stability and relationships.
So I was really psyched to find someone like Gloria who is all these things that we usually don't allow people to be, which is totally sweet and self-absorbed, and very, very caring, but also self-destructive.
Mickey and Gus both have less self-destructive options in their lives, and the series' most daring and resonant route might be to acknowledge that love isn't in the cards for every couple who test the waters together.
Right from the outset, Eve rejects the notion of "sexting addiction," telling me that the addiction model is an unhelpful way to understand people who, like Weiner, seem helpless in the face of their self-destructive sexual compulsions.
Lets be clear about one thing: The charge from Trump that there is a criminal deep state in America conspiring against him is one of the most false and self-destructive charges ever leveled by an American president.
Off screen, the documentary -- directed by Morgan Neville -- captures Welles' self-destructive streak and desperation, which included alienating ardent admirer Bogdonavich by going on "The Tonight Show" and bad-mouthing him, in a manner that strained their relationship.
In high school, he became state wrestling champion at 22 pounds—there's a picture of him atop a wrestling podium a few platforms above Jon Jones, who is arguably the most talented (and self-destructive) MMA fighter ever.
Tillman (or Tillman-as-Misty, whatever) isn't diagnosing society's follies and humanity's missteps over seven-minute stretches anymore, because the hotel stays and Adderall abuses and self-destructive impulses piled up too high for him to see out.
While the more literary Gilles acts out by dissing his self-important French teacher and taking to the woods to declaim Allen Ginsberg's "Wichita Vortex Sutra," Christine, whose troubled home life is made evident, appears willfully self-destructive.
Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misspelled the name of a Swiss scholar who said the court's decision to abandon a possible Afghanistan war-crimes investigation was self-destructive to its own authority.
There's even a Gmail plug-in that is supposed to help us quit this apparently self-destructive habit by policing our emails for signs of excessive contrition, underlining anything of an overly apologetic nature in angry red wiggles.
Told from the perspective of his 12-year-old son, this is a gorgeously tight tale swelling with wisdom about the self-destructive longing for paternal approval and the devastating consequences of clinging to rotten models of masculinity.
Report: Cruz cut himself after breakup, had 'hate signs' on backpack CNN obtained a 2016 report from the Florida Department of Children and Families that said Cruz engaged in self-destructive behavior after a breakup with a girlfriend.
" Over in the Trump-friendly confines of Fox News, Tucker Carlson said the president's humiliation of the attorney general was "a useless, self-destructive act," and Mr. Carlson implored Mr. Trump: "For God's sake, lay off Jeff Sessions.
Firms including McDonald's, Ikea and Perrier are creating their own versions of Banksy's self-destructive stunt, where a built-in device shredded his "Girl With Balloon" painting, just after it was sold for £1.04 million ($1.4 million) at auction.
"Those on the left who gave us Dodd-Frank believe in the principle that human nature is self-destructive and that people - except themselves, of course - are fundamentally ignorant," Hensarling will say, demonstrating the political charge of his plan.
Republicans have been deterred from dismantling that office for now, but their inclination to go back to the good old days of the mid-2000s, and to tolerate much more insidious corruption from Trump himself, is pathologically self-destructive.
A whole range of loony, self-destructive views and practices have thrived in the party since his win last September because his supporters, his advisers and the man himself have created an environment in which they can do so.
Former Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryTrump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button #FreeAustinTice trending on anniversary of kidnapping in Syria MORE also slammed the decision, calling it "self-destructive" to America's interests.
The rest of the movie is about what he said, what it means and how big a price in pain Felson must pay — in lost love, in responsibility for a suicide, in self-destructive acts — to figure it out.
But given how consistently this series chooses, again and again, to let Sherlock off the hook for both his perpetual selfishness and his self-destructive behavior, it would be a huge relief to see him actually face real consequences.
Camille, a wayward, self-destructive newspaper reporter in St. Louis, gets an assignment that she's particularly close to: the murder of one young girl and the disappearance of another in Wind Gap, the small town Camille fled years ago.
Actually, the album reworks ideas that Ms. Aguilera has brandished at least since her 2002 album, "Stripped": that women can be combative, sexy, compassionate, imperfect, sometimes self-doubting, sometimes victimized, sometimes even self-destructive, but still strong and worthy.
Amy Elmore is a successful 10-year cover model, author of Brave and mental health advocate who helps women find their voice and express their inner truth so that they can be free from self- destructive behaviors and thoughts.
While some of the artworks in this exhibition are exciting and valuable, they don't necessarily offer a full sense of the "renewed creative thinking" the curators argue we need to get us out of our current (self-)destructive trajectory.
In the most recent season of another Netflix favorite, "BoJack Horseman," the titular self-destructive TV star (voiced by Will Arnett) must begin to make amends for the untold number of people he has hurt — most of them women.
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Her assault and exploitation at the hands of season 1 villain Kilgrave left her struggling with addiction, depression, PTSD, and self-destructive behaviors, but she has a deep capacity for both sympathy and rage that, together, guide her to justice.
Both films are about the creation of a pop star, which requires some mythologizing and sacrifice of personal identity, and both showcase the high cost of fame, particularly the loss of privacy and the self-destructive tendencies that frequently accompany stardom.
Perhaps someone had stolen it, but logistically, it was far more likely it had been allowed to drain out of the tank, in a self-destructive gesture by desperate people angered that La Loma had water and they did not.
KURTZ: You know, I wrote a lot about the self-destructive leaks in my book, "Media Madness" and I do think the president has every right to feel betrayed by people who are in his payroll or in his orbit, Kristin.
But should the government be acting more aggressively to stop these obviously self-destructive people or should it be concentrating on doing what it can to help the millions of people who are trying to be personally responsible and stay alive?
Trump is having "one of the most chaotic, turbulent and unpopular presidencies that we have seen," and that's mostly imputable to his public conduct, which has been "totally self-destructive," and sometimes even put him in legal jeopardy, Zelizer said.
Greg Sargent of the Washington Post places the firing of FBI Director James Comey in the context of Trump's obsession with his inaugural crowd size, his obsession with imaginary voter fraud, and other self-destructive outbursts, where it fits seamlessly.
In the video, Cummings notes that this stand-up material will be "raw, less polished," and "more self-destructive" than her past performances, citing how life handed her a series of hard lessons around the time of her 30th birthday.
Not that he inspired me to enlist; to the contrary, I thought war might purge some of the Linehan from my blood — specifically, the lack of confidence and the self-destructive tendencies that had hobbled me since I was young.
This collective celebration of a new beginning is as it should be: Ruth came to GLOW alienated, sexually self-destructive, and utterly broke at the beginning of the first season, and found not only professional sustenance, but also a lifeline—friends.
In 1932, when Franklin Roosevelt and the New Dealers swept into office, they believed that radical structural reforms needed to be made in the capitalist system if it was to be saved from its own deep-seated and self-destructive flaws.
His knack for creating controversy out of thin air (this week's edition: the Star of David Twitter post) and his inclination toward self-destructive comments did not instill confidence in a political culture that values on-message discipline in its candidates.
Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk is best known for his novels about marginalized social outcasts with self-destructive tendencies, being a steadfast champion of his beloved Portland, and frequently making people faint or puke during public readings of his work.
"If past history is any guide, the president will only bask in praise for so long before he demonstrates his self-destructive tendency to undo it all in the form of an avoidable controversy or an offensive tweet," he said.
Mr. Priebus said he and other aides — including Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter; Jared Kushner, his son-in-law; and Hope Hicks, his communications director — regularly tried to convince Mr. Trump that his random, often incendiary Twitter messages were self-destructive.
In the warped logic of this spy tale, Trump has convinced himself that such perceptions make other people doubt his legitimacy, a belief that causes him to act in self destructive ways that also undermine the US political system itself.
One of my favorite current series is Rachel Bloom's musical comedy, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," on the CW, which does a wonderfully empathetic job exploring what it feels like to be a female chaos magnet, self-destructive and longing for love.
Mickey (Gillian Jacobs), a self-help radio show producer with self-destructive tendencies, and Gus (Paul Rust, another of the show's creators, along with his wife, Lesley Arfin), a dweeby aspiring screenwriter and tutor for a child star, connect cute.
The fact that Chozick interacted so rarely with Clinton over nearly 10 years of covering her for The Wall Street Journal and then The New York Times is perhaps the most damning evidence of Clinton's self-destructive relationship with the press.
Like the book, Hulu's latest limited series follows Miles "Pudge" Halter (Charlie Plummer), a boarding school student whose life takes an exciting and then devastating turn when the mysterious, self-destructive Alaska Young (Kristine Froseth) pulls him into her orbit.
Sharon is there on what she calls the "Poor Appalachian Kid scholarship"; Mel, the blazing class talent with the rock-star personality (and self-destructive tastes to go with it), has emerged from a precarious "full-on trash" Florida upbringing.
It is a self-serving and, in the end, self-destructive approach, and one that is bound in time to alienate many in the evangelical ranks, especially the younger devout, many of whom seem to be turning away from Trump.
More bouts of self-destructive tweeting, unpredictable behavior and lashing out from a President who lacks a Washington network, gravitates to safe spaces at his resorts every weekend he can and often seems to spend hours live tweeting Fox News.
While the self-destructive Toby pursues fame and endless sex, the nurturing Eric makes friends with the older man upstairs, Walter Poole (Hilton again), the physically frail, unexpectedly heroic partner of the strapping billionaire businessman Henry Wilcox (John Benjamin Hickey).
Burns weaves a coherent story from disparate parts, using iconic characters like Hank Williams, the self-destructive "Hillbilly Shakespeare," and Johnny Cash, the "Man in Black" who managed to be both a traditionalist and counter-culture icon, as narrative anchors.
Two years later, as Britain's exit from the bloc, or Brexit, looks increasingly messy and self-destructive, there is a growing sense, even in the populist corners of the continent, that if this is what leaving looks like, no, thank you.
The biographer is unflinching in describing Nixon's amorality during Watergate, his self-destructive tendencies, his vile foreign record (not only the bombing campaign in Laos and Cambodia but his ineffectual response to the genocide in what was then East Pakistan).
Throughout the show's first two seasons, Jimmy and Gretchen reluctantly fell into their own acidic version of a romantic comedy, becoming more and more drawn to each other even through his worst self-destructive instincts and the revelation of her clinical depression.
There isn't any sort of depth to the game itself, but a big part of the conceit is "adventure"—which is always a bit self-destructive because the thrill of going somewhere and maybe finding something new implies a little risk-taking.
Tracks like "Inside the Mattress" and "Wicked" find our hero Nayvadius Cash in his finest form: an intoxicating blend of syrupy bass and lyrics that are raw, self-destructive, desperate, careless, sick, hopeless—unwilling to compromise reckless decision making or even recognize pain.
In the grand scheme of things, it's a lot less harmful than many other self-destructive things that people living on the edge often do, like running up credit card debt, exceeding their bank overdraft limit or taking out loans from payday lenders.
There isn't any sort of depth to the game itself, but a big part of the conceit is "adventure"—which is always a bit self-destructive because the thrill of going somewhere and maybe finding something new implies a little risk-taking.
The loyalty expressed by Eric, Ivanka and Donald Jr. has placed them among the President's most trusted advisers, and it should qualify them to give him a perspective that might help him stop the self-destructive cycle that has paralyzed his administration.
It is incredible, and politically self-destructive, that after the fiasco of the first TrumpCare plan, Republicans are doubling down on policies of cruelty and ideology as the GOP right meets with the GOP far right to brew a new TrumpCare on steroids.
Given Becky's stringy blonde hair and penchant for self-destructive behavior—and, well, the long shadow of the era in which the character purportedly rises to alt-rock fame—critics have all but assumed she is a stand-in for Courtney Love.
Rick's narcissistic assholery was the show's calling card, and the idea of a self-destructive genius whose ultimate assessment of the universe is that nothing matters and everything sucks propelled him to destroy everyone who even attempted to get close to him.
I have been to many rodeos in national politics, and literally every single major player in politics that I know expected Trump to "pivot" after the conventions to appear to take more responsible positions and say fewer irresponsible and self-destructive things.
As a result, for the past several years, the party's base — spurred by media outlets and commentators mentioned in the previous section — has repeatedly managed to pull the House GOP into waging doomed, self-destructive fights that weren't sought by its leaders.
When he tells Ally that her butt song is embarrassing, that's not necessarily Jackson speaking hard truths — that's Jackson getting sloppily drunk and telling his wife that she's ugly and embarrassing, because he wants to hurt her, because he's a self-destructive alcoholic.
Others in the greater progressive and liberal communities complained of a self-destructive bent in the left wing, essentially imparting the message that if the black protesters would only behave, the white people who front the Democratic Party would take care of them.
INTERNATIONAL Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about the International Criminal Court's decision to abandon an Afghanistan war-crimes investigation misspelled the surname of a Swiss scholar who said the court's decision was self-destructive to its own authority.
In the season premiere, Vincent (played by James Franco) inches toward his estranged wife Andrea, whom he left in Season 1, while his twin brother Frankie (also played Franco) continues to display his self destructive streak despite being married and having children.
The story of a washed-up, self-destructive Hollywood actor surrounded by an equally flawed circle of friends, its acclaim is all the more impressive given that it's a cartoon in which half the characters (including the eponymous lead) are anthropomorphized animals.
Furious, impulsive texts with reporters at odd hours, frequent accidental phone calls, and increasingly self-destructive appearances on television, angering top Republicans and sometimes even Trump himself: that's the Giuliani of today, and the Giuliani that Allen is letting onto the airwaves.
He followed the roar of the crowd to dark, violent places, becoming ever more crazed and isolated and self-destructive, egged on by the egotist and erstwhile White House strategist Steve Bannon but really led by his own puerile and insatiable ego.
As BoJack, the self-destructive celebrity horse voiced by Will Arnett, negotiated the dark corners of Hollywoo and his own psyche, a steady stream of peripheral visual gags — puns, pop culture references, the occasional cocaine-addled lemur — made his various descents more palatable.
Axe, as it happens, sponsored the Promundo study, which concluded that men who registered narrow, clichéd instructions about manhood were more likely to act out in self-destructive ways, such as substance abuse, and in outwardly destructive ones, such as online bullying.
The intense desire of Democrats to win the election is so strong that it makes no sense, and is self-destructive to the cause, for Sanders to repeatedly label himself a socialist, which will lose some votes for him as a nominee.
Despite hundreds of Iranian citizens having been killed and thousands arrested in another round of protests in late 2019, Iranians today are displaying unthinkable courage in the face of brutality, calling out their government for its lies, corruption, self-destructive zeal and oppression.
At the end of "Shutter Island," we learn that the protagonist (Leonardo DiCaprio) has been replaying a self-destructive fantasy in his mind: He invented an alternate identity to repress his memory of killing his wife (Michelle Williams) after she drowned their children.
"Pear Cider and Cigarettes," the longest, richest and saddest of the films, also uses voice-over narration to tell a painful personal story about the life and death of Techno Stypes, a self-destructive childhood friend of Robert Valley, who directed the film.
Airing significant, substantive contrasts is, as always, important—but candidates would do well to remember that the contrast that matters most is the one between Democrats' hopeful, inclusive agenda and the divisive, self-destructive, special interest-driven record of the Trump administration.
After the previous Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron resigned following the UK's referendum vote to leave the European Union in 2016, May took over after a leadership race that she won by default when all of her opponents were voted down or self destructive.
Kelly said at the Sea Island Summit, a political conference hosted by Washington Examiner, that he told Trump that he would be impeached if he did not choose a chief of staff with the strength to blunt some of the president's more self-destructive impulses.
At one poignant moment in the season, Bojack miserably declares "I remember everything, I'm sober now," which speaks to how losing his self-destructive coping mechanisms have forced him to acknowledge the scope of the chaos he's created over the course of the show.
Although she is vulnerable and needy in her own way, Rosemary, an evangelical Christian who had some unspecified personal involvement with addictive behaviors, knows better than to be taken in by Kevin, whose self-destructive gambling and substance abuse flow from his blinding narcissism.
We are justly proud that immigrants continue to want bring their dreams to this country — and that refugees have been able to escape homelands ravaged by the carnage of war, consumed by race hatred, and mired in self-destructive ignorance to rebuild their lives here.
One of my main reasons for writing the book was to understand my relationship to sex, to trace how I'd gotten to this point in my addiction, because I had been partaking in a lot of self-destructive behavior and I wanted to stop.
By contrast, the politically self-destructive fiasco of the GOP move to "repeal and replace" ObamaCare is nothing more than a cover story for crony capitalist greed that will hurt consumers and is revealed to voters by every new variation of GOP healthcare legislation.
Jenifer Wolf Williams, a mental health professional who is among thousands of other professionals offering free services to help once-separated families, told ABC that children could become more prone to engaging in self-destructive behavior later in their lives if not treated properly.
On a recent evening, a table of six, half of whom were dripping with sweat from a self-destructive contest to see who could eat the most kua kling, waited fifteen minutes for their drinks, only to discover that the harried waiter had forgotten.
The talk of forcing Mr. Trump from the ticket presumes something many Republicans are so far not willing to concede: That he is a lost cause whose self-destructive tendencies will make it impossible for him to beat Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee.
The smaller, reality TV side of Trump insists on self-destructive tweets, fights unworthy of the President of the United States, and smothering his own positive messages with noisy irrelevancies, which give the liberal media an excuse to avoid covering the important, good news.
O. Scott) ★ 'Born to Be Blue' (No rating, 1:38) In this moody biographical fantasia, Ethan Hawke gives what is arguably his deepest performance, playing the self-destructive jazz trumpeter and singer Chet Baker, who died in 1988 following years of heroin addiction.
None of this has stopped the government from undertaking a huge, self-destructive purge, with around 10,000 people arrested, 100,000 people dismissed, and the seizure of assets of more than $4 billion, numbers that worry not just human rights activists but foreign investors as well.
He'd fallen in love with an electric Nicole Taylor script called "Wild Rose," a fish-out-of-water story about a self-destructive Glaswegian country singer and single mom whose only dream in life is to sing Patsy Cline ballads at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.
Donald J. Trump's intensifying battle with his own party is tearing open the nation's political map, pulling Republicans across the country into a self-destructive feud that could imperil dozens of lawmakers in Congress and potentially throw conservative-leaning states into Hillary Clinton's column.
The director Alex Ross Perry may not have intended to make a point about sexual politics with his latest, "Her Smell," about a punk singer (a fantastic Elisabeth Moss), but even so-called self-destructive women get a lot of help on their way down.
Mr. Kushner's achievements have not only been paltry, but he is directly implicated in some of the president's most destructive — and self-destructive — decisions, as well as in some of the most serious accusations of self-dealing that have been made against the administration.
Far more compelling might have been a more forthright examination of what it means to be a self-destructive mess who, nonetheless, does a heroic thing, because you've entirely given up on the idea of being anything other than a martyr to the cause.
Rendered effectively mute on the subject of her own suffering, Juliet slides into an escalating series of self-destructive extracurriculars, culminating in two suicide attempts, after which she is diagnosed as bipolar, heavily medicated and shipped off to a boarding school for troubled teenagers.
Ricky Ryrie (Wendy Moniz) and her husband John (Trevor St. John) barely seem to talk to one another, while their young daughter Biscuit (Oona Laurence) appears to be indulging in self-destructive behavior and their adolescent son Paul (Jeremy Shinder) has closed himself off.
Many in the White House said they still held on to the hope, however slim, that the new White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, could impose order on the disarray even as Mr. Trump hopscotches from one self-destructive episode to the next.
There is a sense that blood is in the water, that Trump's erratic, self-destructive behavior, aversion to honesty and authoritarian desire for absolute control may in some way, at some point, lead to his undoing and that the pace of that undoing is quickening.
No man—or horse—is an island, and one of the series' greatest strengths is its deeply realistic depiction of how a friend group grapples with each member's respective self-destructive and self-defeating tendencies, all while doing their best to help each other.
"Roger has a long track record of self-destructive behavior, and he is more often than not his own worst enemy," said Morgan Pehme, the journalist and filmmaker who helped write and direct the Netflix documentary "Get Me Roger Stone," which was released last year.
By this time, she wants to be called Christa — like Nico was a costume she was made to wear, like she had moved past the self-destructive phase depicted in Susanne Ofteringer's Nico Icon (1995), like the days of Warhol and Vogue were long over.
Buffalo Fans Turned Dumb Football Into a Community Art Project Gamedays at Ralph Wilson Stadium are the most pure representation of the don't-give-a-fuck self-destructive essence of NFL fandom, and they were better—or at least better documented—this year than ever before.
This self-destructive behavior was on full display this week as professional journalists strayed far from their neutral voice in reporting on — and simultaneously condemning — Trump's statement on why he chose to maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia despite its role in murdering the journalist Khashoggi.
Until they learned to seek out and heal the hurt child within, he said, most adults stumbled through life, expressing their pain through self-destructive behavior and entering into unhappy love relationships with similarly damaged partners, each hoping to find in the other a loving, approving parent.
She's a warm conversationalist but also a moody one, suspicious of cant, with an almost self-destructive refusal to defer to the diplomatically empty idioms of the media-trained television executive—she'd rather tell a story that makes her look bad, if it's true or funny.
As sure as she discovers her palate with her first oyster, as reliably as a junior somm learns to say, without wincing, "Champagne is the fulcrum of the terroir debate," Tess develops a self-destructive appetite for too much sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll.
Peggilee Wupperman, a psychologist at the City University of New York who studies self-destructive behavior, told me in an interview that a decent percentage of people on the site probably already had at least some features of BDD before visiting Lookism for the first time.
Seemingly well-chosen follow-up parts — among them the suicidal first wife of Lon Chaney (James Cagney) in "Man of a Thousand Faces" (22004) and the self-destructive daughter of John Barrymore (Errol Flynn) in "Too Much Too Soon" (21956) — did little to advance her career.
The simple, numbing pleasures of chopping goblins in half and taking their loot threaten to take over Finn's life, forcing him to rely on his friendship with Jake to snap out of it — an experience that will be familiar to anyone with similarly self-destructive coping mechanisms.
And as you go through the show it becomes clear how important it is to have him present, right now: not just because 2017 is the bicentenary of his birth but because he is a model of resistance in a rived, self-destructive, demagogic political moment.
Unlike his predecessor, Donald F. McGahn II, who privately referred to Mr. Trump as "King Kong" and sought to curb some of his potentially self-destructive impulses, Mr. Cipollone is known to stay behind the scenes and has been described as more temperamentally agreeable to Mr. Trump.
The singer-songwriter, who gave us gems like "Lust for Life," had so many wildly self-destructive moments onstage — slashing his chest with glass, throwing himself into the audience, stripping, vomiting on cue — that he has made even the wildest C.E.O.s look like sleepy Florida retirees.
He was closing in on age 27, which made comparisons to self-destructive 27 Club stars like Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison inevitable, particularly given that he was at the height of his virtuosity and quickly becoming the most famous rapper in the world.
The album's closing track "I Feel So Wrong" is a stand-out, defining the experience of Williamson deciding to move toward a healthy lifestyle—of dragging money out of a cash machine to buy more gear but looking at the moon and feeling wrong, self destructive, sick.
On the one hand, to be enjoying playing, writing, and listening to the point of euphoria could actually signal the beginning of a manic episode—not a day of extreme happiness, but a complex pattern of reckless and self-destructive behavior, spurred on by the occasional God-delusion.
And if the message that your culture gives to you is that you have no chance, you have no hope, why work hard because even if you work hard you're not going to get ahead, I think that's very self-destructive to kids who grew up like I did.
The ultra-minimal return to Instagram is one of a few safeguards Allen put in place around the creation of No Shame designed to stop her falling into the hole of "alcohol, and drugs, and sex, and quite self destructive stuff" that she used to cope with work previously.
While accepting the Woman of the Year award at the Peggy Albrecht Friendly House, a recovery and sober living program for women in Los Angeles, Moore revealed that she experienced patterns of self-destructive behavior early in her career and didn't find solace until she entered a recovery program.
Childhood flashbacks revealed Rebecca as a pleaser, a self-destructive A-student desperate to win back her absentee father and impress her mother (Tovah Feldshuh, who storms into town klezmer-style with a tour-de-force of Jewish-mom judgment: "You're looking healthy/And by 'healthy' I mean 'chunky'").
Unfortunately, a vocal legion of Rick and Morty fans think that the show's alcoholic, self-destructive patriarch Rick is someone worth looking up to and the show has a quality that only appeals to the most intelligent people, which means they think they're smart and everyone else is not.
But social liberalism clearly has something to do with it: the lightening of prohibitions on self-destructive behaviour leads people to make decisions which, in the long-term, can leave them either addicted to drugs or lacking the skills or self-discipline to become productive members of society.
Dal Forno's muffled vocals, the sinister synths, and heavy dub influences all come together in a sickly haze on tracks like "What You Gonna Do Now?" which mimic those self-destructive thoughts that swirl around in your head as you rot away in bed on drizzly, lost Sunday afternoons.
Jules is trans (something indicated to the audience not via monologue but through a quick shot of her injecting hormones into her thigh), and it's welcome that Euphoria doesn't tie Jules's self-destructive streak to her transness but, instead, to her devastation in the wake of her parents' divorce.
The first season was a transgressive, smutty tour de force, its self-destructive, chatty protagonist propelling us through sexual adventures, familial passive-aggression and the gradual revelation of her secret torment: the death of her best friend (Jenny Rainsford), who stepped into traffic after Fleabag slept with her boyfriend.
Parliament remains at an impasse, with under 60 days to the March 29 deadline to leave the E.U. Solidarity elsewhere: The messy and self-destructive Brexit process in Britain has made E.U. membership more popular in other member countries, even among populists, writes our chief diplomatic correspondent in Brussels.
Add this wildly self-destructive behavior to her self-injurious habits of banging her head against the wall and calling herself names when she screws up and … well, this is unpleasant, powerful stuff that speaks to the hopeless, trapped feeling that can torment new parents, particularly new single mothers.
For 40 years, I have had the honor of meeting hundreds of grassroots leaders who selflessly dedicate themselves to uplifting their low-income communities and transforming the lives of men, women and youths entrapped in addiction, predatory and self-destructive behavior, and the lifetime consequences of their past failures.
Between playing a space-traveling ex-con father in Claire Denis's 2019 film High Life to a self-destructive billionaire in David Cronenberg's 2012 Cosmopolis to a hapless petty criminal in Josh and Benny Safdie's 2017 Good Time, Pattinson has carved out one of the most eclectic careers in American cinema.
In a recent interview, Garland told The Verge that he wanted to tell a story about the way the literal, molecular process of self-destruction in organic life mirrors the psychological one in humans, in which we're always rewriting our own personalities and resisting, or failing to resist, self-destructive choices.
In the field of healthcare, while the first failed Republican attempt to "replace and repeal" turned into a politically self-destructive fiasco for the GOP, the always consistent Sanders forges ahead with his Medicare for All proposal that will bring single-payer healthcare back to the center of our national debate.
I've noticed that these thoughts tend to run in a loop—that their contents dwell on similar themes: fear of not getting something I want, fear of losing something I have, and most frequently, the fear of not being enough (coupled with self-destructive ideas about how to remedy that).
One episode might follow the diptych of Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) and the Man in Black (Ed Harris), linked in ways they don't quite understand, while the next lays out what happens as Maeve heads into Shogun World and Dolores chases her own ambitions into an ever-tightening, potentially self-destructive spiral.
As in the sentence about coffee that I just cited, he can morph from a realist opening shot ("One finishes one's coffee) to a cartoon image at the end ("like an old-fashioned baby spoon") while passing through a moment of extreme, self-destructive violence ("one hacks it with one's spoon…).
In a scathing editorial Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal sounded the alarm as well, urging the Trump administration to stop separating children and parents as it seeks to enforce a "zero tolerance" policy, and emphasizing that its adherence to this practice is a shadow hanging over the midterms: This is self-destructive politics.
" The album's self-destructive dynamic comes out on the title track — "I can't turn off what turns me on," she wails over twisted guitar — and her protagonists never stop annihilating each other for their own benefit, whether for carnal kicks, or for the mothers who "milk their young" in the song "Los Ageless.
Mickey (Gillian Jacobs), a self-help radio-show producer with self-destructive tendencies, and Gus (Paul Rust), a dweeby aspiring screenwriter and tutor for a child star, connect cute and then try to decide if they're meant to be together or apart, over and over again — until finally it dawns on them.
Here's a recipe for disaster: Take a movie star known for indulgent, self-destructive antics on and off the set, send him to rehab, turn his therapeutic writings into a score-settling screenplay centering on his relationship with his deeply troubled father, then produce the movie — with said actor playing his own dad.
Mickey (Gillian Jacobs), a self-help radio show producer with self-destructive tendencies, and Gus (Paul Rust), a dweeby aspiring screenwriter and tutor for a child star, connect cute and then try to decide if they're meant to be together or apart, over and over again — until finally it dawns on them.
But the biggest catharsis came in its insane penultimate episode, "The Most Powerful Man in the World (and His Identical Twin Brother)," which has series protagonist Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) confronting his own nihilism, his self-destructive urges, and his biggest safety outlet in one gloriously weird fantasy about setting out to destroy the world.
By then the wildland fire community -- that is, the federal agencies (such as the National Park Service and Forest Service) and some state and private institutions that were concerned with fire on landscapes -- had admitted the self-destructive folly of trying to exclude all fire from all lands and had committed to restoring "good" fire.
What makes Kraus so powerful to her devout, eccentric readership is her intelligence, emotional acuity, and willingness to be challenging on the page: "I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world," she writes in I Love Dick.
With Democrats now in control of the House—and, again, with ample evidence that the president's immigration policies are not popular with a majority of voters—they have little incentive to continue to stand behind the president as he prolongs his self-destructive government shutdown, especially now that 800,000 federal workers are missing a paycheck.
Season two's messy spin on the romantic comedy — in which Waller-Bridge's self-destructive but charming character falls in love with a priest — took a show that had been a minor cult hit in its first season and turned it into an international sensation, one that made Andrew Scott's "Hot Priest" a household name.
He seems to see the foreign policy establishment as having a worldview precisely the opposite of his own: that it is overwhelmingly focused on near-term challenges, that it is fundamentally fearful and pessimistic about American global preeminence, and that this leads the establishment to desire policies that are overreactive and ultimately self-destructive.
Whether it's churlish refusing to reiterate America's commitment to Article 5 of NATO after Trump's own staff briefed American media that he would do so, or firing FBI Director James Comey on a thin pretext that he contradicted days later in an interview with NBC News's Lester Holt, Trump has been impulsive and self-destructive.
A new biography, "Janis," by the music writer Holly George-Warren, performs a service by stripping away a lot of the noise around Joplin — cackling and bawdy, she was America's first female rock star and Haight-Ashbury's self-destructive pinup girl — and telling her story simply and well, with some of the tone and flavor of a good novel.
But there are sad tales too: the legend of the sport who hangs around too long, or the promising young fighter who chooses to fight in a strange and self-destructive way, or the old timer who pours his heart and soul into a performance but just doesn't have the chin or the grit to take the punishment anymore.
A year after my tongue-in-cheek column asking whether Trump is running as a plant to elect Hillary Clinton, I will now raise the possibility, much more seriously, that one way to explain Trump's repeatedly self-destructive behavior could be that deep down Trump does not want to win the election and is clumsily throwing the game.
Although they occasionally make me wince when I listen to them now, each song bringing with it a memory of some hilariously bad poem I uploaded to DeviantArt, bands like Jack Off Jill and Queenadreena gutted the dichotomy of being sexual and relentlessly self-destructive in a wildly misogynist world and painted the walls with it.
In some cases, TV portrayals of suicides can have positive effectsOne study of the second season of "13 Reasons Why" concluded that the show might have actually helped people empathize with those who have suicidal impulses in its portrayal of Clay, Hannah&aposs boyfriend who feels self-destructive urges but ends up being a hero of sorts.
" The individual, in the form of Yang himself, is the hero of "Paper Tigers"—the person who becomes a writer so he can be "his own law"; who rejects both the fetters of a self-destructive Asian American culture and a hegemonic white culture that demands his fealty; who is determined to express his "obdurate singularity at any cost.
Excess was the thematic link for a three-part Grammy medley: Post Malone's acoustic-guitar-strumming ballad "Stay" (recalling a lovers' quarrel while he was "too drunk to talk") followed by his singsong, self-censored boasts of overindulgence in "Rockstar" and then the Chili Peppers' 2016 song "Dark Necessities," which hints at addiction and self-destructive impulses.
To appreciate just how self-destructive this strategy is, read the third paragraph of the Times story: In an interview with The New York Times, he also contended that infidelity was "never a problem" during his three marriages, though his first ended in an ugly divorce after Mr. Trump began a relationship with the woman who became his second wife.
On Monday, China hiked tariffs in response to last week's move by the U.S. (CNBC)* China's Communist Party makes a flashy graphic to show everyone what it thinks (CNBC)* China's 'self-destructive nuclear option' in trade war: Selling US Treasury bonds (CNBC) On today's U.S. economic calendar, the government issues its April report on import and export prices at 8:30 a.m.
The performance she gives here is as meticulously conceived and layered as any in her long career, which ranges from that of a self-destructive young hedonist in the 1957 Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's "Orpheus Descending," to the runaway mother in Harris Yulin's definitive revival of Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful" for the Signature Theater Company 10 years ago.
What is happening in America when, for the sake of tribalism, people who should know better hurl these offensive, inflammatory verbal assaults -- all to stand in the good graces of President Trump, whose self-destructive and reckless conduct in Ukraine and Syria is simply indefensible, counter to American national security interests and in complete alignment with Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin's policy goals?
To watch the show was, for me, to identify with all of my romantic impulses at once: Attraction to hyper-masculinity, frustration with gendered roles of heterosexual relationships, a secret desire for marriage and stability, and the largely self-destructive need to be the girl on the side, illuminating a man's vitality for him while slowly being seeped of my own.
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Trump's advisers reportedly warned him this was a bone-headed, self-destructive act; the only holdout reportedly was son-in-law Jared KushnerJared Corey KushnerPresident tweets 'few work harder' than Ivanka, Jared PETA billboard in Baltimore calls Kushner a 'rich pest' Top immigration aide experienced 'jolt of electricity to my soul' when Trump announced campaign MORE, who thought it would shorten the investigation.
Just another dark, twisted fantasy that I can wallow in instead of facing the reality that I can be better, that I can be worthy of the love people give me, and that I can stop being the kind of self-destructive person who hops in the bed with the first woman who grinds the front tire of my bike.
Opinion This summer I went swimming, this summer I might have drowned But I held my breath and I kicked my feet and I moved my arms around This summer I swam in the ocean and I swam in a swimming pool Salt my wounds, chlorine my eyes, I'm a self-destructive fool — "The Swimming Song" I wrote those lyrics in 1974.
"The fact that he's now backing off so quickly, within a matter of weeks, indicates the insincerity in which the first statement was made," Duke University corporate governance and securities law expert James Cox told the AP."Tesla investors must realize that they have a panicky, erratic, possibly self-destructive CEO at the helm," Yale School of Management professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld told the Times.
Trump has virtually endorsed the Russian annexation of Crimea, has suggested that America should let Russia solve the Syria problem, has stated that he is not firmly committed to American and NATO defense of Europe if Russia invades, and has engaged in a bromance, exchanging mutual praise with Putin, which is one of the strangest and most self-destructive actions in the history of presidential politics.
In addition to being geopolitically and diplomatically insane, militarily self-destructive (one of the first people detained under the executive order was an Iraqi national and refugee who worked as an interpreter for the U.S. during the Iraq war), illogical (none of the countries on Trump's list were home to any of the radicalized Muslims who have killed Americans in the U.S. since Sept.
Here's how absolute power can lead a company down a self-destructive path: Shrinks cognitive bandwidth Practices such as having the same person serve as chairman and CEO, failing to give decision making power to truly independent directors, and selecting directors from the same tired pool of contenders, are all likely to increase the chances that corporate leadership will miss something important in the external environment.
But now they, too, need to reckon with a reality that has confounded every kind of Republican reformer since Barack Obama was elected: Our politics are probably too polarized, our legislative branch too gridlocked, and the conservative movement too dysfunctional and self-destructive to build a new agenda from the backbenches of Congress up, or even from the House speaker or Senate majority leader's office.
To see a woman in power, able to wield it in a destructive way, do the right thing, with all the complicated emotions around doing the right thing — not just being like, 'I am noble, I am good,' but actually having the rage and the fear and the anger and the self-destructive impulse — and still making the choice to do the right thing.
"If Trump was determined to demonstrate to the world that he is unhinged and an imminent danger to world peace, he has succeeded with this speech, and will only make it harder for him to win over the world to his self-destructive goals," said Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, a Washington-based group that criticizes the Tehran government but advocates more engagement.
As a liberal Jew who agonizes over what this endless occupation is doing — not only to the Palestinians but also the Jews, both here and in Israel — I wish I could find a movement that actually sought to help Israel realize the folly of the self-destructive path it is currently on and simultaneously advance the cause of a peaceful state for the Palestinians.
Half my Facebook feed is someone linking to a video with the headline: Watch X demolish Y. I doubt that Trump will develop a capacity for fraternity any time soon, but to be human is to hold out hope, and to believe that even a guy as old and self-destructive as Trump is still 0.001 percent open to a transformation of the heart.
MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Mike Brzezinski called the GOP a group of "self-destructive suck-ups" for their loyalty to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Thursday.
More in a series as if your pity bent to belief Abnormalities of saccades: Both women had (self-)destructive tendencies themselves—alongside of which generally comes (self-)improvement at almost all cost (if it is not good for you, it has to go)— and messy, tricky, sad pasts of their own before they first met and said to one another, breathlessly, Where have you been?
Smyth's memoir is most absorbing when it is absorbed in her own life, especially in her portrait of her father, whose alcoholism creeps deftly into the narrative, first as a benign part of the scenery (the glass of wine, refilled on repeat), then as an open secret that his daughter works desperately hard to manage, and, finally, as a destructive and self-destructive tragedy.
It'll also likely be a bit lighter in tone than BoJack, since the main character is an outspoken toucan and not an alcoholic horse with a self-destructive streak—but these are still the people who made a goofy sci-fi episode that turned out to be about a miscarriage, so Tuca & Bertie will probably find a way to break your heart at some point, too.

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