I gravitated towards boozers, and learned how to get pissed for free on obliterating house white.
But that cannot happen in a country in perpetual turmoil with a repressive military intent on obliterating its adversaries.
New York insisted on obliterating its past to make way for "business" and "progress," words she had always hated.
Although this book's title hints at a relatively simple and precise geometry, "Parallel Stories" is actually a hugely ambitious, breathtakingly inventive and at times maddeningly dense novel intent on obliterating historical, geographical, literary and structural borders.
It is also difficult to decipher the intentions of an occupation authority which, while seemingly intent on obliterating the symbols of Saddam, shows little compunction in rehabilitating the real instruments of his brutal control.
Van Nistelrooy's total in Europe stands at 35 goals in 36 starts and, having overtaken Denis Law's club record earlier in the season, he seems intent on obliterating it.
Suddenly, his hopes for supporting a family on two continents, for paying down his credit-card balances and student loans, for keeping the Georgia Power bill collectors at bay, all hinged on obliterating those targets.
In the early 1980's, they built 11 log houses on the monastery grounds in a 19th-century style that, like the country's main religion, Russian Orthodoxy, the Soviet Union otherwise seemed bent on obliterating.
Eschewing all nuance or subtlety, they played a percentage game based on obliterating the opposition by pounding them with relentless brutal, high-impact assaults until they were simply worn down.
Instead Mr. West evokes a view similar to that of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and argues that the United States should reduce its footprint to 50,000 troops, focus on obliterating the Taliban, send small numbers of American advisers into combat with the Afghans and stop throwing money at a feckless, corrupt government.
