Sentence examples for gradually obliterated from inspiring English sources

The intervening 150 years have gradually obliterated how separate these concerns were at the war's outset.

This much more radical ANC past is gradually obliterated from our memory.

A side gallery projects two short films in which Goldsworthy lies down on a rock in a rainstorm or snowstorm, leaving a "shadow" of dry space that, once he's moved, is gradually obliterated.

Clefts and pouches are gradually obliterated by invasion of mesenchyme to form various adult structures (Table 1).

Surface is paramount, with the gel primer preventing the ink from encroaching on the canvas; instead, it pools into a smooth wash on the surface, gradually obliterating the pen strokes.

The paradoxically sinister beauties of these Armageddons are further elaborated in the "Secret Garden" series (also 2008), in which nature takes its revenge on the planet now devoid of humans, as trees and plants invade and devour urban spaces, gradually obliterating every trace of past human existence.

The single-minded pursuit of profit is a dangerous phenomenon which can dull our sensitivities and gradually obliterate all other social and human considerations.

Then they move into businesses in which the main point is to beat the competition, in which the competitive juices take control and gradually obliterate other goals.

In "Re- (Part One)," a 2006 work inspired by a trip to Tibet, he created a complex mandala out of pieces of paper, the pattern of which was gradually scattered and obliterated by the dancers' movements.

Slope streaks fade gradually over time, with "islands of persistence," and are not obliterated by planet-encircling dust storms.

While the heartland of the empire was inundated by Phrygians, some of the Cilician and Syrian dominions retained their Hittite identity for another five centuries, evolving politically into a multitude of small independent principalities and city-states, which were gradually incorporated by Assyria until by 710 bce the last vestiges of Neo-Hittite political independence had been obliterated.