Despite its natural properties — "it's very durable, very beautiful, and sustainable," al-Sabouni says — it has become consigned to history, replaced by the concrete blocks that have come to define, blandly so, the landscape of Homs.
There is no room for words like humanity, or heart, or empathy -- it is simply "us versus them" -- and "them" becomes consigned as "not human, not life, but anti-life".
Or is there a danger that the rich diversity that makes up Britain becomes consigned to a few stereotypes?
As more of our lives are transferred online, certain rituals become consigned to the pre-digital past.
For example, word "consigned", after stemming becomes "consign".
It became fashionable to consign the past to the dustbin of history - ideology, left, right, socialism, capitalism, imperialism (hopelessly old-hat) and the rest - while the future seemed a cornucopia of possibilities.
Other papers followed where Murdoch went, Fleet Street's so-called "Spanish practices" were consigned to history, and for a while it became risky to be too openly pro-union in many British newsrooms.Another reason is cultural.
John Crawford, a son of the abstract painter, photographer and printmaker Ralston Crawford, said that he did so after it became clear that at least a dozen paintings and photographs consigned to the gallery were missing.
A German dealer bought it and in turn consigned it to Sotheby's in October.
It becomes quite romantic, this sort of lonely, isolated, introverted-stroke-extroverted character: Actress building this robot, having been consigned to the boundaries of limbo by the music press on the back of Ghettoville, which is his final album.
