The desire to do good, to champion the cause of love can become so potent a power in itself that it obliterates the ends. |
We have to stop the diabolic and vicious cycle that obliterates the lives of our children. |
For Barthes, the catastrophe is unavoidable because time obliterates the punctum, or small space, registered in the photograph. |
In it he almost obliterates the sky in a frenzy of thick white paint and the sea in a swirling foreground of creamy, hot-chocolate gloop. |
She wears a cubical frame on her shoulders, and it casts a thick black line of shadow that almost obliterates her eyes. |
The blood pressure cuff is inflated by hand to a level that obliterates the arterial pressure or pulse. |