He erases himself, while in the background he's willing, as he puts it, to 'soak up the shit'.
Then, with all the pieces in place, he suddenly erased himself: he let the team play without benchside meddling (before the game against the Soviets, the next-to-last match of the tournament, he told the players, "You were born to be here," and then walked out of the dressing room), and after his players won the gold medal, he let them have all the credit.
Ferry has not just annulled the personalities of Manzanera and Mackay, who might as well be session players like the other hirelings credited, he's erased himself too.
In Jean-Pierre Melville's end-of-an-era, end-of-a-man noir "Le Samouraï" (1967), Alain Delon plays a hit man so good at his job that he has virtually erased himself.
He made few details about his early life public, a reticence perhaps befitting a writer who erased himself from his books so assiduously.
Luckily for Verlander, with interleague play expanding starting next season, he should get plenty of chances to erase himself from the record book.
JaBarr modifies his costumes to ensure that he melds with his character, rather than erasing himself to be someone else.
As Parry notes, "Obara himself had begun the task of erasing himself from his life as he moved through it" — changing his name, having surgery to make his eyes look more Western and less Korean, wearing dark glasses.
He has a deliciously brazen style and impeccable stagecraft, which lets him summon up Dietrich without erasing himself.
"He erased the book," Mr. Scire said.
