Tuan Nguyen, a seafood wholesaler in the small community of Venice, Louisiana, says his business was shut down for eight months after Katrina, in 2005, and his savings were obliterated: "I don't know what we're going to do, because the bills are coming in every day .The first known animal victim of the spill was a northern gannet, currently recovering.
Elton John has recently called Born This Way "the anthem that's going to obliterate I Will Survive" – a laudable ambition indeed for anyone who's heartily sick of that Gloria Gaynor warhorse (which, by the way, is not an exclusively gay record).
Everyone remembers 'The Sound of Music.' You can blast it but you can't obliterate it, I guess".
"I was focused on running under 13 for one last time to cap off a really good season, and I obliterated it.
I remember at Carnegie Hall, after the show, I got totally obliterated and I had to ask my sister, "Are you sure I got two standing ovations?" A lot of people feel when you get depressed and you're hopeless, that's when people drink and do drugs.
No, I wanted the chimney to be obliterated because I remembered how the landscape looked before it was built; because the power station's placement represented a political willfulness that over the past 50 years has come close to destroying one of the world's most beautiful estuaries.
We seem caught up in the creative frenzy of Victor Frankenstein, whose "discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result".
CNN's @BrookeBCNN is in a helicopter flying over Mexico Beach, Florida, getting a look at one of the hardest hit areas from Hurricane Michael: "It's gone… it's obliterated… I've never seen anything like this… I have no words" https://t.co/sFUNF4n8aS pic.twitter.com//t.co/sFUNF4n8aS
As the fog rolled in, I stayed close to the shore, and anytime the fog obliterated landmarks, I knew how to turn toward land.
One of the first things we did when we sat down to write the film was to make a list: "obliterated," "wasted," "I was completely destroyed".
He added that "this wicked ideology must be obliterated, and I mean, completely obliterated".
