Sentence examples similar to try to efface from inspiring English sources
Rather than delineate, I was trying to efface them.
This is very similar to authorial power, which usually tries to efface itself.
Trying to efface the reality of a sad and violent death with protestations of romance is less so.
THE euro crisis has recreated a rift between a Germanic north and a Latin south that decades of integration tried to efface.
At a stroke, it has restored the dividing line down the Rhine that generations of leaders have tried to efface, ever since the European Union's forefathers pooled their coal and steel industries in the 1950s.
For years after Plath's death, angry women used to raid the churchyard in Heptonstall where she is buried and hack at her tombstone, trying to efface the name Hughes.
But in actual fact, the place was even more apt for an attempt to efface Europe's national borders.
In 1898, in the introduction to his translation of the "Masnavi," Sir James Redhouse wrote, "The Masnavi addresses those who leave the world, try to know and be with God, efface their selves and devote themselves to spiritual contemplation".
Those who try to bring themselves forth, if they're lucky, find that their new identity doesn't efface the one that was born and raised but merely puts it into new perspectives, provides new angles and new tools to plumb and reveal its hidden depths.
