I know you would not have come in here on a purely destructive mission.

Even now, no one can say whether we are past the purely destructive phase of this calamity.

Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

This doesn't mean, I hasten to insist, that natural selection is a purely destructive process.

All this contrasts markedly with the media image of the hooligan as a purely destructive agent.

This is a purely destructive move by the Mayor.

Fire was seen as a purely destructive force and there was little understanding that it was an integral part of the ecosystem.

"Maybe it says something about human nature, that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive"

War, being purely destructive, is a product of unsanity.

"It doesn't take any skill, and it's purely destructive," Death Veggie said.