Sentence examples for oblivion of which from inspiring English sources

So in the end she sought the ultimate oblivion, of which her chronic latecomings and desperate retreats to her room were token suicides.

So in the end she found the ultimate oblivion, of which her chronic latecomings and desperate retreats to her room were tokens.

That is the sound of oblivion, an oblivion of which you are staring directly into.

When he died in 1891, with the exquisite "Billy Budd" left unfinished in manuscript, an obituary in The New York Press registered the depth of oblivion to which he had fallen: "Probably, if the truth were known, even his own generation has long thought him dead, so quiet have been the later years of his life".

Ray and Gorman seem to disappear back into this group of forgotten men, returning to the oblivion to which society has consigned them and their confreres and toward which, in some cases, their own demons have pushed them.

The World Trade Organisation, born at the end of the Uruguay round in 1994, has been saved from the oblivion to which a failure might have condemned it.

Changes in taste and style combined, as Grout concludes, to "thrust [the operas] into ill-deserved oblivion", as a result of which Rinaldo was not staged anywhere for two hundred years.

As lord chancellor, Hyde pressed for a generous Act of Oblivion, which spared most republicans from royalist vengeance, and for speedy provision of royal revenue.

Soon after his restoration in 1660, Charles proclaimed a so-called "Act of Oblivion", which assured his subjects that all past affiliations to Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth would be forgotten.

Meanwhile, in Europe, the "right to be forgotten" can be traced back to French law, which acknowledges le droit à l'oubli -- or the "right of oblivion" -- which allows a convicted criminal who has served out their sentence to protest the publication of the facts of their conviction.

Her other novels include "Sin" (1992), "Oblivion" (1995) and "The Stillest Day" (1998), all of which examine untoward acts and their consequences.