Sentence examples for without obliterating from inspiring English sources

According to Abu-Lughod, western imperialism superimposed itself on these older circuits without obliterating them.

How do you create a lively atmosphere without obliterating the possibility of an intimate meal?

Ritchie Coster gives a transcendent performance as Astrov, bringing Chekhov into the 21st century without obliterating the 19th.

It was thin and a little chewy, but had just enough blackening to make it appealing without obliterating its minerally beef flavor.

He began to evolve a personal style that gave a boppish edge to the four-square sound of swing drumming, without obliterating the subtle "talking" sonorities of drums.

At the fringes, in Hackney Wick, there is the prospect of enhancing the area without obliterating its existing qualities, which is a trick rarely pulled off.

In other cases, wood is elaborately carved and painted, disguising its original context without completely obliterating it.

Yang Du's clothes somehow manage to accomplish the same feat without totally obliterating their wearer's fuckability.

(I will climb an implausible incline to my apartment to repent dessert, painlessly obliterating the calories without having to resort to the gym).

The difference was that Gawker's implicit mission seemed to be to destroy the established media, both by cannibalizing its content and by obliterating the reputation of everyone who produced it, without any apparent conviction about what ought to follow.

The cumulative weight was obliterating.