Sentence examples for efface her from inspiring English sources

The job turns out to be part of Mrs. Hughes's plot to cover up her son's murder of his wife; she holds Julia captive in a rural mansion and attempts to brainwash her and efface her identity.

And it is still thought that the ultimate act of love for a woman is to efface her own identity - a loving wife in a two-career marriage having every cause for anguish should her success overtake and surpass her husband's.

Now Catherine set out to efface or outdo her former rival's work.

He wonders if he can make a new life for himself, perhaps efface his catastrophic life choices.

To reductive cradles of Islamic fanaticism, images that satisfied a Western thirst, his counterpoint was portraits of civilizations whose wounds did not efface their poetry.

No, neither Kaori Nakamura (matinee) nor Noelani Pantastico (evening) can efface memories of Merrill Ashley in her prime in "Square Dance".

She later did her best to efface or outdo Diane's building work there.

And that dawning suspicion, I now conjecture, was what has made me efface the success of Alice and her dog from my memory: I was ashamed of my success then and there, stricken in medias res.

For years after Plath's death, angry women used to raid the churchyard in Heptonstall where she is buried and hack at her tombstone, trying to efface the name Hughes.

Poovey suggests that Frankenstein's multiple narratives enable Shelley to split her artistic persona: she can "express and efface herself at the same time".

And her only novel, Don't Look at Me Like That (Granta £6.99, pp187), is concerned with visibility and the various ways its heroine finds to efface herself or even vanish from view.