The churches seem especially obliterated compared with other structures, and one man, asking for anonymity, relates the local maxim that "the rum shops were spared but the churches fell because there's more hypocrisy in the churches than in the rum shops".
Somehow the act of reaching for it seems to obliterate the consciousness of it.
Humor and pathos filled this solo with a startling resonance and seemed to obliterate the festival's youthful bent.
Shedding clothes until nearly naked, Mr. Vaccaro offered an exaggeratedly narcissistic swagger, perhaps as protection against the larger-than-life images and geometric squares and circles that filled the screen and sometimes seemed to obliterate his body visually.
(Holden) Film Series The French Old Wave (Friday through Thursday, through Sept. 13) The arrival of the New Wave in the late 1950s seemed to obliterate the huge and important body of French cinema that came before it, an injustice that still has not been remedied a half-century later.
So many hotels these days are quite undistinguishable from one another and have been designed, it would seem, to obliterate any sense of the local and any element of soul; one ends up, then, remembering the good places and forgetting the rest.
They continued to think about the future even as the present seemed to obliterate it.
Thus supporting Carson may somehow seem to obliterate the sense that racism is an inherent part of hating Obama.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and Shakira posted three happy photos of her, her beau and baby that seem to obliterate any rumors that the couple is on the rocks.
If such approaches wish to claim that there are standards by which we can judge interpretations to be better or worse, correct or incorrect, then they must find such standards other than in the conserving aspect of interpretation, as the requirement that one be faithful to the meaning of an original seems to be obliterated on such views.
