Sentence examples for against oblivion from inspiring English sources

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He looks a man embattled, helmeted in his own skull, alone against oblivion.

He was writing against oblivion in the midst of a people fixated on reinvention.

In the climactic moments of the final episode, "Against Oblivion," the orchestra breaks into wrenching fury and slashing dissonance.

Forgive me if I suggest that this isn't the most felicitous way to do battle against oblivion.

All the world's heartbeats stretching out until the last syllable of recorded time: that should stand against oblivion.

Obama sits against sky-blue oblivion, the triangular shape of the dress turning her into a mountain.

Then again, Wisconsin doesn't exactly inspire dynastic memories of U.C.L.A., while a young Florida team faced first-round oblivion against Butler.

"If Europe is to be saved from infinite misery and, indeed, from final doom, there must be this act of faith in the European family and this act of oblivion against all the crimes and follies of the past, and the free peoples of Europe must rise to the height of these resolves of the soul and of the instinct of the spirit of man," Churchill said.

During the first portion of his career he refused roles that he felt cast dwarves in a clichéd manner and, like his character in Living in Oblivion, railed against stereotyping.

Boswell never conquered his ample faculty of self-deception, not least when it came to matters of the heart and libido, nor his overwhelming fear of God – or, perhaps more accurately, of death: what Boswell sought from religion was not so much a guide to living but a form of reassurance against the possibility of oblivion.