| But this is an uncomfortable process for nearly everybody and, for some, a very costly and ruinous one. |
| Is it possible our society become so Nietzchean and socially Darwinian that motherhood is one of the most ruinous choices a woman can make? |
| She is scared of the ruinous power of the media, for visual signs carry much greater importance in the civilized world than words. |
| She was left with a dangerous house and the ruinous expense of making it habitable. |
| The dangers of teenage experimentation are somehow much less ruinous for boys. |
| For their disregard of the ruinous and destructive consequences of a hyperindustrialism without end, is itself a form of aggravated nostalgia. |
