Sentence examples for erasure from inspiring English sources

Larkin's poem, written about his friend Winifred Arnott, sees the lost maiden name as a symbol of the erasure of a woman's youthful and sexually desirable self, now swallowed up in domestic duties and motherhood.

It doesn't matter if I remind them that some of my favourite songs of all time are by Fleetwood Mac, Abba and Erasure.

And yet with the rise of "erase your history" software such as X-pire! and ephemeral apps like Snapchat and Wickr, we seem preoccupied with an urge for removal and erasure – an idea now enshrined in European legislation.

Alawi describes the imminent arrival of yet more seven-star hotels even closer to the mosque than the al-Bait clocktower, as well as proposals to develop Jabal Khandama, on the hills to the east, which will likely see the erasure of the site where the prophet Muhammad was born.

The internet's erasure of geography lets people have a flutter without having to leave their living-rooms for the Bellagio's bombast or the shabbiness of the local dive (see article).

The investigative team ferretted out cheating by analysing erasure marks on test sheets.

But the stories he tells with his clean words are powerful and disturbing.The erasure of memory in "The Buried Giant" seems curiously selective; the book's ancient society is on the brink of a great transition the Saxons arriving in greater and greater numbers, the Vikings hovering across the sea and calls to mind echoes of more modern conflicts, such as Bosnia or, more recently, in Crimea.

Even this definitive erasure of the distinction between the living and non-living worlds is not, however, the most radical idea in synthetic biology.

By tweaking the amount of clumping (changing the intensity and duration of ultraviolet-light exposure, as well as the number of nanoparticles embedded within the film), the spontaneous self-erasure time of the paper can be altered from hours to weeks.

The isomerisation occurs in milliseconds, so normal writing speeds are possible.The self-erasure happens because the new isomer of azobenzene is not as stable as the old one.

There was an initial feeling of rejection – and I was slightly comforted that his first project after me [Erasure, with Andy Bell] didn't immediately go quite so well as my first project after him.