crushing

As crushing as coming home can be, it can produce these virtuous, alluring thoughts.

In the aftermath of the 2007-08 writers’ strike, roles for the blooming actor became harder to come by — a situation that was made more dire by the nation’s crushing financial crisis.

Ms Chapman, the Green MSP for North East Scotland who will start as rector at the university in August, said if the job losses went ahead they would be a "crushing blow" to the campus.

It wasn’t until “Rose’s Turn” that I realized — with the force of a crushing epiphany — that all of this was intentional.

Not sure why she’s so concerned about what happened to Tanya, who was a neurotic mess, heartlessly crushing her dreams of owning a business.