annihilating

“The Doctor received a very unfriendly, and the godson, who stood as if turned to stone, a very annihilating glance.”

“The thought of time, to me at least, is a very overpowering and often a very annihilating one for energy: Time rushing on, unbroken, irresistible, hurrying the worlds and the ages into being, and out of it, and making our 'noisy years seem moments in the being of the eternal Silence.'”