Sentence examples for an oblivion of from inspiring English sources

In the case of his own archetypal hero, the hero's end seems merely the mirror image of his career, an oblivion of resignation or death that follows an oblivion of violence.

"I consigned them to an oblivion of my choosing," is the feeling mourners hope for, he said.

Mr. Lebrecht can turn a nice phrase at times, as when he speaks of Mahler's plunging "into an oblivion of work".

There's nothing humorous about guys who destroy lives and slip off into an oblivion of wealth while leaving the status quo in tatters.

But in each relationship too much or too little has been said or done for so long that the partners blunder along in an oblivion of mute and tortured dissatisfaction, each marriage a game of blindman's buff in which the partners occasionally long for each other but grope about, arms outstretched, eyes unseeing.

Then you could pass into an oblivion of your own body as St .Paul did, when he said, 'Whether in the body I cannot tell, or out of the body I cannot tell; God knows it' (2 Cor. 12 2).

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That is the sound of oblivion, an oblivion you are staring directly into.

With a 34-20 loss to the Ravens, the Jets plunged to a three-game collapse and into the oblivion of a shattered season.

With a 34-20 loss to the Baltimore Ravens that was a microcosm of all that had gone wrong in the previous 15 games, the Jets plunged to a three-game collapse and into the oblivion of a shattered season.

Had the Ripper's crimes been solved soon after they occurred, he would have faded into the oblivion of a police blotter, a forgotten court case involving the brutal killings of five East End prostitutes.