Humanity has virtually obliterated itself in a planet-engulfing war which involved chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
In 1851, Wagner praised "that true womanliness, which should one day bring redemption to me and to all the world, after male egoism, even in its noblest form, has obliterated itself before her".
Thrusters now blazing, Phoenix was slowing, but MPL had messed up at just this point, prematurely cutting off its thrusters while still 40 meters up, obliterating itself on red terrain.
I surf the internet in search of something to blog about, then I blog about it and post it, and then I check over the hours and days to see how many people have read it, getting a frisson of usefulness that obliterates itself with a zapping sound, really truly, as I remember that I need to be working on the next thing, not promoting the last thing or just writing to write.
For every shop it obliterates another finds itself selling to places it never imagined it could.
Celebrate the obliteration of binaries with today's Groupon: for $24, you get to eat brunch and see a drag show (a $45 value)." Part group purchasing site and part den of neo-Dadaists, Groupon itself obliterates binaries.
This is theatre as a disappearing act in which time itself is obliterated.
But you can't obliterate a place as easily as its inhabitants, especially when the place itself inhabits our very consciousness.
I had meant to live defensive, to deconstruct my life in metered groan: to obliterate each element in the order it had insisted or had had itself insisted thereupon me.
The famously bisected city had had several makeovers itself, not least the "change" from communism to capitalism, and seemed keen to obliterate its past, especially its history of ferocious home-grown antisemitism.
