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• s  destructive to the spirit or soul
  soul-destroying labor

• The increasing vogue of higher degrees, obtained by soul-destroying research, blunts and narrows the teacher and keeps red-blooded young men away from the teacher-business.
• Out of the French army's soul-destroying trial by fire in Algeria there has so far emerged one superlatively good combat commander, a 42-year-old ex-bank clerk from Toul named .
• It's as if life in Romania is so soul-destroying that Gabi doesn't want to bring another soul into it.

News & Articles

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• “How to Make Money Selling Drugs”: The war America keeps on losing
  A slick documentary with a jokey premise argues that the "war on drugs" has been a soul-destroying disaster        
  June 26, 2013 - Salon.com

Quotes

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• John Terry in Sportinglife.com
  Terry said: "This time last season Arsenal were eight points ahead of us. We were winning every week but so were they and, in the end, it became soul-destroying because we just could not close the gap. They slowly killed us off but this time it is...