1 It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
2 You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words.
3 The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour.
4 War, it will be seen, accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way.
5 The hunting-down and destruction of books had been done with the same thoroughness in the prole quarters as everywhere else.
6 Between the verb and the noun form, when they were of the same root, there was never any variation, this rule of itself involving the destruction of many archaic forms.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 7 At present, when few human beings even have enough to eat, this problem is obviously not urgent, and it might not have become so, even if no artificial processes of destruction had been at work.
8 In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished.
9 The largest section of the Records Department, far larger than the one on which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction.
10 When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.