One look at the unbridled joy on Chastain's face, in this case her postgame face, obliterated the notion that she had planned for the occasion of taking and making the last shot and cashing in as a new-wave American sex symbol.
There appeared to be seventeen such scratches, made by a sharp blade, through the eyes, the nose, and the mouth, as if someone — possibly a Catholic partisan — had tried to obliterate the face.
Heresy to the Byzantines, who lost no time, once they had taken the city, in renaming the church and obliterating the face and form of Theodoric wherever they found it.
Minutes later, the police found Mr. Scarduzio sprawled on the floor of a friend's home less than a mile away, a shotgun by his side, his face obliterated by a single blast to the head.
The commercial ends with another picture of Mr. Franks, his face obliterated by the warning, "BOB FRANKS: Deep in Debt to the Special Interests".
At a vigil in Union Square, Fusco photographed a colleague kneeling, his face obliterated by a lens, to get a close-up of a woman who sobs inconsolably.
Working with sensuality but also meticulous detachment, the blanched body emerges from pitch blackness, a tangle of long limbs, the face obliterated.
We laugh at our peril, for the primary vector of Zika, a mosquito, has become the real-life embodiment of the alien bugs of the film Starship Troopers and must be obliterated from the face of this planet lest they devastate the population.
This would leave them visible, but would technically "obliterate" the faces.
Now the man's face was obliterated.
Sculptures and carvings were sometimes recycled; after one emperor's face was obliterated, the stone could be recut into the likeness of the new one.
