2010, Gayle Soucek, Marshall Field's: The Store That Helped Build Chicago, The History Press, →ISBN, page 17:
Some came to get rich on their wits and intellect, others on their strength and brawn, toiling from dawn to dusk in soul-crushing labors.
2012, Douglas A. Van Belle, A Novel Approach to Politics: Introducing Political Science through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture[1], SAGE, →ISBN:
And for an introduction to politics course, zombies represent the threat posed by a textbook that is so chock full of soul-crushing boredom that it will smother the mind and rot the flesh right off of students' faces.
2013, Kristina Lloyd, Thrill Seeker[2], Black Lace, →ISBN:
Oh, it was nothing compared to the immediate, soul-crushing loneliness I'd experienced when Baxter and I had split.
