He obliterated his actors under sumptuous costumes, obstructed them with cumbersome scenery and blinded them with bolts of lightning.
These traditions were nearly obliterated in the Cultural Revolution under Mao from 1966 to 1976.
The writings of Sergei Bulgakov (1871 1944), like those of other major social thinkers of Russia's Silver Age, were obliterated from public consciousness under Soviet rule.
The missile obliterated the men and the tree under which they stood.
Dull, fleshy smacks resonated as fully-grown men were obliterated onto the cold, harsh tarmac under the weight of the jostle.
And they found that in monkeys, when killer T-cells were obliterated, AIDS viruses ran rampant, never coming under any sort of control and quickly killing the animals.
Westerly and Watch Hill, R.I., were virtually obliterated, the streets of downtown Providence were under thirteen feet of water, and two or three of the minuscule but populated Thimble Islands, just off Branford, Connecticut, had disappeared.
The FN, under Le Pen's leadership, obliterated her father's best vote-showing in 2002, when he won 16.86 percent of votes cast, a feat that opened the doors to a second round against Jacques Chirac.
They aren't living under Israeli occupation, or in deep poverty, or afraid of being obliterated by a drone strike, with little hope for change under the specter of a Clinton presidency.
