The Spanish architects Cruz y Ortiz, who won an architectural competition to renovate the museum, undid years of renovations, restoring Cuypers's original layout of the galleries, along with ornamental details that had been obliterated over the years.
In seeking evidence for the "numerous gradations" that Darwin anticipated must have existed at some stage during the evolution of our eye, it is important to realize that at the level of whole organisms and whole eyes, the overwhelming majority will have been obliterated over time by the success of organisms that evolved further improvements.
Almost as soon as it was installed on the pavilion, it was painted over and obliterated.
It obliterated Washington with over 20 inches, Baltimore with a record 30 inches and Philadelphia with 26.7 inches.
Sheikh's theme is erasure and forced resettlement, mostly of Bedouin villages whose traces have been obliterated or covered over by military training grounds, reforestation tracts, toxic-waste sites, and new settlements.
Over the centuries as the Hempstead Plains were used for grazing livestock, then as farms, then as horse-racing tracks and airfields, and finally, after World War II, for housing, she said, "invasive, non-native plants -- trees, bushes, clovers and herbs -- took over, obliterating the native wildflowers and prairie grasses.
Wheeldon instantly obliterated the memory of those over-weight pachyderms; his dancers were like a dozen champagne corks simultaneously popping and they stole the show from a herd of admittedly elephantine opera singers.
To the south of this crater, a crater with a diameter of 150 m lacks an eastern rim, which was destroyed by the over-thrusting or obliterated by talus deposits from the scarp along a ridge.
Labour, which was largely obliterated in 2009, won over 260 seats: a solid but underwhelming result.
"Just because you are incarcerated doesn't mean all your individual rights can be obliterated and trampled all over".
Although scores of similar incendiary raids on Japanese cities followed, their memory, even in Japan, seems to have been obliterated by the mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
