The depth of their oblivion was exemplified when, in a referendum debate on Sky TV, Michael Gove spoke of how his father's fish business in Aberdeen had been "destroyed by the European Union", which had "hollowed out" communities across Britain.
Brangäne's distant voice warns that night will soon fade and danger be revealed, but the lovers equate their oblivion with death, which will give them the total union and safe removal they crave.
The Lib Dems nixed the original Snoopers' Charter, but since their oblivion, she has brought it back on her own – the government keeping everyone's calls, texts, emails, for a year or more.
"As the German nation tries to awaken from the nightmare that Hitler's state had descended into, Fallada's protagonists slowly wrestle their way out of their own oblivion, eventually finding a way forward".
In either case, you find yourself at the bottom of somebody else's hole and they either want to drag you into a conflict with them or to swallow you whole within their sad, empty gazes, sucking you down into their own oblivion.
Until then we might linger a bit more over the memorable films of 2003 before they slip into their temporary oblivion.
Your children are supposed to outlive you by several decades, during the course of which they live their lives, happily devoid of the burden of your presence, and eventually complete the same mortal trajectory as their parents: oblivion, denial, fear, the end.
The prints in "The Art of the American Snapshot" are reproduced at their actual modest size, with lots of blazingly white space, and have taken their riddles into oblivion with their anonymous creators.
As with Mr. Dodin's production of "Uncle Vanya," seen at the same theater in 2010, the performances here often rise to an anguished intensity that defies the stereotype of Chekhov's characters as meek sufferers shrugging their way into oblivion, watching in quiet resignation as their chances for happiness recede.
The great online figures of this time, idols of mine like the long-retired rock critic Mark Prindle, have not so much passed into history as oblivion, their outdated, still-standing websites existing today not as vehicles for introducing their work to new readers but as sepulchers housing it until those servers crash.
The Philadelphia Phillies continued their return from playoff oblivion tonight with their first ninth-inning comeback to win a game this season.
