Politics begins to permeate everything, obliterating the division between public and private, but also imbuing action and speech with exhilarating meaning.
Everything was obliterated.
Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
In a pre-emptive bid to protect its customers' data, Silent Circle said it had obliterated everything in its server.
There was no sign of a failed elevated train line, and Jerry said that most of this construction was more recent than the Brooklyn Circle; developers would have obliterated everything.
What amazed me was the aura of mystery and melancholy Bolaño created, a sort of microclimate reminiscent (as was the terse, reportorial style) of Babel and Kafka, a weather that obliterated everything outside the story.
Romualdez was on foot when the eight-metre (25ft) storm surge broke on to the pavements and houses, creating a two-storey tidal wave that obliterated everything in its path.
And then, of course, as soon as the coalition was formed (what with Greece) the degree of anxiety around the economy just obliterated everything else, including constitutional affairs, which is why the AV referendum in the spring of 2011 suddenly felt slightly out of place.
"Well if you take the view that Tony Abbott's remarks the night before the election on SBS trumped and obliterated everything his colleagues had said on this matter, then, yes, that promise, if that, if that is a promise, has not been fulfilled," he said.
After a titanic Seventh Symphony on the final evening, Cohen's first chords in Piano Concerto Number Five obliterated everything in the hall, and you knew you were hearing the real Beethoven.
