Meanings of self-annihilation in English

This is the only way to avoid seething envy and certain self-annihilation.

As grandiose delusions go, global domination makes more sense than self-annihilation.

That which externally seemed will and immovableness was willingness and self-annihilation.

Moreover, not one line, not a single word in the Scriptures inculcates such self-annihilation.

The most determined career woman is suddenly assailed by a deep, dark impulse towards self-annihilation.

He denounced caste; he preached poverty, asceticism, self-annihilation.

Deference to mental superiority is not to go the length of self-annihilation-abnegationof any personal opinion.

So that the mystics are utterly wrong when they fancy that self-sacrifice can be attained by self-annihilation.

In a word, he was a man born to obey, and this self-annihilation suited his passive temperament.

As for me who pretended to nothing, I thought all succeeded well, inasmuch as all tended to self-annihilation.

Down unlit and illimitable corridors of eldritch phantasy sweeps the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to self-annihilation.

The fatal year 1875, the last of the twenty years of respite granted to the melammeds for their self-annihilation, arrived.

Sixty-five years ago, amid the first frosts of the Cold War, the world's nerves were also racked by fears of self-annihilation.

As such, I'm prone to believing that it's some sort of cry for help, whether whole-hearted effort at self-annihilation or not.

In both cases there is the thirst for self-annihilation, melancholy, dissatisfaction.... And what that springs from I will permit precisely that philosopher to decide.