How To Use Oblivion In A Sentence
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He falls into a stupor, into utter oblivion of the world about him, becomes in turn excited and confused, his senses begin to functionate in a fallacious manner, and he thus succeeds in shutting out from consciousness, for the time being at least, the entire unbearable situation.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
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And that in itself becomes the great terrible mystery of the film - the monstrous enigma that propels the townspeople towards some inexplicable, and therefore, inextricable, oblivion.
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If properly framed, some of those positions could be sold to Kentucky voters at least; others need to be "reframed" into oblivion.
Rand Paul: No Babe in the Woods
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Most of these duplicated segments are doomed to oblivion, because any proteins their genes produce are redundant.
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Other options include Chaos, which whirls you into oblivion, and the Inverter, with its extreme G-force action.
Las Vegas: Sights Beyond The Slots
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As industry convention usually has rejection leading to oblivion, it's a record we were probably not supposed to notice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gradually, as the years went by, Abercrombie and Gibson slipped into virtual oblivion.
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Drowsiness overcame her, and she crumpled to the floor, letting herself sink into dark oblivion.
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The times I was just having a beery laugh with my friends, times when we shared in each other's extrovert abandon, each other's dippy oblivion.
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She quickly rose from oblivion to become a star for her courage and challenging character.
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While the old traditions still excite, craftspersons should be taught to cater to the contemporary market without which they will fade into oblivion.
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I began to count the ways in which I enjoy unearned skin privilege and have been conditioned into oblivion about it existence.
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Between twelve and one that Sunday night Katharine lay in bed, not asleep, but in that twilight region where a detached and humorous view of our own lot is possible; or if we must be serious, our seriousness is tempered by the swift oncome of slumber and oblivion.
Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
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Where were all these so called conservatist and I might also mention the Tea Party people the last 8 years when the prev WH spent this country into oblivion??
Gingrich to sign Contract from America
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The next step is oblivion, sleepiness and coma.
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Maybe you just sit in a corner and sink quietly into oblivion, snoring loudly for the rest of the evening.
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Or just the oblivion of another pink gin with the ladies?
Times, Sunday Times
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These toys will be around for a year or two, then fade/slide/sink into oblivion.
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Last year this particular meet was not held, and had it not raced last weekend, the old favourite in the Tennant Creek sporting calendar could well have faded into oblivion.
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An entire poor section of town was bombed into oblivion.
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The star is not the dissolution of individualism into death and oblivion but the freezing of particularity into an eternal image of itself.
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Those who are worried about these traditions falling into oblivion should preserve them in the archives where they rightly belong.
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He is put in the car and driven to casualty, yet another client for the overworked hospital staff, yet another bed being taken up by a person who has drank themselves into oblivion.
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Woodburners will only throw out heat so far and no further, so the Hudson's Bay blanket has been my best friend and I have mastered the three-way fold cocoon-like enwrapment which has all kept me warm enough to sink into the oblivion of a good book.
Dovegreyreader scribbles
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For me ‘the strong, silent type’ conjures up images of slit-eyed Clint Eastwood, mumbling a few well chosen syllables before dispatching some low-life to oblivion with his enormous gun.
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117 Whatever might be the success of his prayer, or the accidents of his future life, the period of a few years levelled in the grave the minister and the poet: but the name of Hadrian is almost sunk in oblivion, while
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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An unusually stringed instrument, the sarangi is being forced into oblivion because of lack of interest.
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Without doubt, Lamb's taste on several matters was peculiar; for instance, there were a few obsolete words, such as arride, agnize, burgeon, which he fancied, and chose to rescue from oblivion.
Charles Lamb
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The article expresses a horror at the 'barbarity' of the 'unmeaning mummeries, dishonest debt, profuse waste, and bad example in an utter oblivion of responsibility'.
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Cars and lorries hurtle past him on roads that have no pavements, often coming within inches of knocking him into oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our sages teach us that our oblivion, our unawareness of the full ramifications of every harsh word and action, lasts only until the day of death.
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If the old lady had not been restored to her fortune, her _personalia_ would have remained in the oblivion which, as one might say, had accumulated upon everything belonging to her.
Balcony Stories
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I will pass into oblivion, to the vile dust from whence I sprung, unwept, unhonored, and unsung. . .
The Curse of the Wendigo
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He said many producers were neck-deep in debts and had faded into oblivion after producing a couple of films.
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This clearly didn't happen, and their choice then was whether the fade off into oblivion or whether to actually do something.
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The times I was just having a beery laugh with my friends, times when we shared in each other's extrovert abandon, each other's dippy oblivion.
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It saddens me to see this proud contest fall into oblivion, for it was once a very important event for American school-children.
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Lifting his hand, Shanza barely had time to wrap his blood-smeared fingers around the smooth shaft and yank before his knee collided with the ground and he sank into oblivion.
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Unfortunately, with more and more people moving into apartment blocks and embracing a fast-track cosmopolitan life, this practice is slowly being pushed into oblivion.
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The political oblivion that encompassed the end of Billy Hughes' career remains a moral exemplar to any pollie who dares to go there.
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Little remains for it but to wail as it passes into oblivion, as it has already begun to wail in accents Populistic and Jeffersonian-Democratic.
Revolution
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The teacher rouses up from her state of total oblivion.
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With his teachers he salvaged from oblivion many of the Swahili poets, notably the Mombasa poet, Bwana Muyaka.
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We're now invited to consign our art works to his oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times
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The movie also shows a panoramic view of the mountains, deep chasms and valleys going into oblivion and the sounds of crackling icicles and snowstorms.
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He decided it didn't matter; he was nothing, if oblivion wished to claim him in his sleep then let it.
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He was another minor poet[sentence dictionary], perhaps unfairly consigned to oblivion.
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I am loth to rake up any of these ancient scandals from their well-deserved oblivion; but I must make good a statement which may seem overcharged to the present generation, and there is no piece justificative more apt for the purpose or more worthy of such dishonour than the article in the Quarterly Review for July,
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work
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What does it mean to live in a world of equine oblivion after millennia shaped by a 'centaurian pact'?
The Times Literary Supplement
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The oblivion of unconsciousness was creeping up on her at its leisure, and she would make him regret murdering her too slowly.
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He often drinks himself into oblivion.
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Then, when you are out on a fast, open road you find the engine runs out of puff on hills so you have to downshift and rev it to oblivion.
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Empires and ideologies have triumphed, perished and fallen into oblivion through the centuries.
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There are forces ever about us that minister to erasion and oblivion.
The Epistles of St. Peter
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Oblivion from outer space is a suitably millennial topic, and is something for all the worriers and doomsters to dwell on now the world didn't end last Saturday and the Millennium Bug turned out to be about as threatening as a ladybird.
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I felt my insides curl and shrivel into oblivion.
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Is it any wonder, then, that we sometimes feel that we are living in a world on the edge of oblivion?
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Holy Trinity, which has 12th century foundations, medieval stained glass, 18th century box pews and an unusual saddleback roof, was rescued from oblivion by Goodramgate's traders, who evolved into the Friends of Holy Trinity.
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The habitual, gentle and ordinarily longed-for oblivion of the end of the day had morphed into something considerably more sinister.
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I had to start thinking about this at the age of eleven, and used to keep myself up for hours contemplating my own death and oblivion.
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Democracy will make it's last fall into the oblivion of an Imperial corporate state bent on world destruction.
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Such a supramundane observer would find himself entering into a new era, in which all his previous knowledge would sink into oblivion.
The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity
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Filed away in studios or tucked deeply in the archives of a few public collections, these prints lapsed from obscurity into oblivion.
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It seems that the so-called new theory is likely to sink into oblivion.
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He had drunk himself into oblivion.
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The poleax tipped up and followed him into oblivion.
Nemesis
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Why should people not have the right to keep their own money and spend it how they see fit, instead of having a nanny State, bossyboots Government tax workers into oblivion?
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For him it was no new conviction that his presence in any part of the world, from Africa to the steppes of Muscovy alike, was enough to dumfound people and impel them to insane self-oblivion.
War and Peace
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Many coaches would have faded into assistant coach oblivion.
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, let me sink into oblivion.
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Butternut-squash tortellini flecked with sage offers only a slightly less severe case of blissful oblivion - provided you brush off the slivers of overbearing Parmesan.
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At that moment, the Europe team teetered on the brink of oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times
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He comments on her "cowy oblivion", her "cow inertia", her "cowy passivity" and her "cowy peace" and he wonders where she goes to in her trances.
The emotional depth of a cow | Hannah Velten
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And on this side of the Atlantic bizarre and beautiful fields of glass sponges have been trawled to oblivion.
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He was another minor poet, perhaps unfairly consigned to oblivion.
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Led on by false promises and unaccomplished hopes, I lay down and fade away into oblivion.
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The mitral dishonorably meatloaf of oblivion, archaeozoic, schnecken and degradation in air beforehand the blowtube tittering lecturing.
Rational Review
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There are days when a one-way journey into a deep, enveloping oblivion can seem very appealing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Intervening gemination then would give us a reason why this only occured before word-final supershort schwa and didn't occur before other word-final vowels like *-i or *-ə non-supershort schwa which coincidentally weren't being shortened to oblivion and therefore could not have triggered this gemination.
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing
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In recent weeks Irish theatre on tour has looked like a one-way ticket to financial oblivion.
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It was then possible to leave behind us something more explicit than these severe, monotonous and lying epitaphs; and the thing left, the memory of a painted picture and what we call the immortality of a name, was hardly more desirable than mere oblivion.
Memories and Portraits
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We were there to see what would have been the apocalypse, the oblivion, the end.
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Communion and oblivion, sex and death, the mystery can be revealed - but it can be revealed only as totally inexplicable.
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The multiple shocks to body and mind sent his wounded psyche catapulting down the dark tunnel to oblivion in a dead faint.
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Against the backdrop of these feeble intellectual currents lurks the traditionalist discourse that altogether consigns modern science to oblivion and attempts to prop up a fatal mix of mystical and alchemical knowledge.
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To kill a culture is to cast its individual members into everlasting oblivion, their memories buried with their mortal remains.
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Cars and lorries hurtle past him on roads that have no pavements, often coming within inches of knocking him into oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Under the plans set out by the Ministry of Defence, the regiment will be amalgamated with other Yorkshire regiments and the name will pass into oblivion by 2007-2008.
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And Walter Kirn, weighing in on Wallace's final collection, Oblivion, heaped opprobrium on Wallace's "unedited" feed:
David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model
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Shelley Rice describes Kuhn's Brazil as "mobile, never fixed; it moves back and forth between wilderness and civilization, between carnality and oblivion, fecundity and decay.
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Since they evoked feelings of gratification and satisfaction, uncertainty abounds as to whether they should be erased it into oblivion.
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We're now invited to consign our art works to his oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times
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They will silence me, continuing onwards to their sterile and humorless future, wiping the world's mysteries into oblivion.
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It's the freedom to drink yourself into oblivion.
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We're now invited to consign our art works to his oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Second, ‘too many liberals compromise themselves and their causes into oblivion,’ through passionless and overly civil politics.
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At that moment, the Europe team teetered on the brink of oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times
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This day dedicated to pranksters everywhere has been around a long time; the origin however, is lost in oblivion.
03.04
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For the unsuccessful ones, their ordeal simply fades into public oblivion.
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In me all human knowledge dwells, the oracle of oracles, past, present, future I reveal or in oblivion's silence seal; What I can preserve can perish never, what I forgo is lost forever.
CanadaA Community of Communities
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It moved to cross the road, and gave a cursory glance left, then right, then stepped out into oblivion.
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In a market in which even bestsellers are quickly remaindered and then tossed into the bin of oblivion, the work of experimental women writers is easily lost.
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The desire of these heroin addicts for chemically induced oblivion is made comprehensible by the sordid, disaffecting environment in which they live.
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February 21st, 2009 at 12: 50 am the idea that we have to choose between letting housing prices dive-bomb into oblivion and reinflating the bubble is preposterous
Matthew Yglesias » Crook: Obama Housing Plan “Seems Well Thought Out”
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Preppers refer to nonpreppers as 'sheeple': blindly following the herd into destitution, oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Namque nec sibi potest mortem consciscere, si velit, quad homini dedit optimum in tantis vitae poenis: nec mortales aeternitata donare, aut revocare defunctos; nec facere ut qui vixit non vixerit, qui honores gessit non gessarit, nullumque habere in praeteritum ius, praeterquam oblivionis, atque (ut facetis quoque argumentis societas haec cum deo copuletur) ut bis dena viginti non sint, et multa similiter efficere non posse. —
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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And after the situation had cooled into oblivion, I was left with an enlightening feeling of how being purposely outcasted feels like.
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I am loth to rake up any of these ancient scandals from their well-deserved oblivion; but I must make good a statement which may seem overcharged to the present generation, and there is no _pièce justificative_ more apt for the purpose or more worthy of such dishonour than the article in the _Quarterly Review_ for July,
Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
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The two shows dug deep into archival troves and directed viewers and art historians toward an expansion of both sources and resources, resurrecting artists and specific works from historical oblivion.
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Where the general duty of allegiance has lapsed into oblivion, the tenant-in-chief is in all but name a dependent king, and the feudal state becomes a federation under a hereditary president, who occasionally arbitrates between the members of the federation and occasionally leads them out to war.
Medieval Europe
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Faced with political oblivion, he fought back.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plummeting drop of Oblivion?
The Sun
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_Et quid Pandoniae_ -- thus, little book, I charge you to poultice your more-merited oblivion -- _quid Pandoniae restat nisi nomen Athenae?
Chivalry
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These songs have set the trend for melody and have evoked the nostalgia, which was fading into oblivion.
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A plastic mask covered her mouth and nose, feeding oxygen to her in her oblivion.
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The two shows dug deep into archival troves and directed viewers and art historians toward an expansion of both sources and resources, resurrecting artists and specific works from historical oblivion.
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James spent the next two days floating in and out of oblivion, completely unaware of his arrival in Amsterdam.
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The " little Chinese girl " was rescued from oblivion at the eleventh hour.
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In the 1980s and 1990s we were ill at ease and unable to get a hold on things as we faced a big black hole and a slow drift to oblivion.
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The modern settlement has wandered away from this ancient one which now slumbers -- together, maybe, with its hoary Egyptian prototype -- under high-piled mounds whereon have arisen, since those days, a few mediæval monuments and crumbling maraboutic shrines and houses of more modern date, patched together with antique building blocks and fragments of marble cornices: an island of sand and oblivion, lapped by soft-surging palms.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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There was no escaping either the ironies or the career implications of the situation and both the record and the band were speedily consigned to oblivion.
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Most of his work has now been consigned to oblivion.
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They plunge out on three simultaneous axes, each of which, in its own way, terminates in oblivion.
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Defile, and then flee to the bliss of oblivion.
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It seems that the so-called new theory is likely to sink into oblivion.
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As for 90 octane gasoline, there are strong indications that it will slowly fade into oblivion, hopefully unnoticed until it ceases to exist.
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The darkness thickens, closes in on me, drawing me into these eyes, and my surroundings sink into oblivion.
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And like the unperfected Polaroid of a beginning we've forgotten, it should fade into oblivion in no time.
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They presently look like a team that could drift farther into oblivion each week.
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He died in oblivion in a remote village.
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The headlines may suggest that Democratic and Republican lawmakers hate each other, but when it comes to consigning the lives of ordinary people to oblivion, everyone on the Hill is all warm and fuzzy and palsy-walsy.
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Not until life and existence implode into oblivion, nothingness, will the fighting end.
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I had to start thinking about this at the age of eleven, and used to keep myself up for hours contemplating my own death and oblivion.
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So it is that Mr. Turner will go to Washington, and the Ninth District, in its present gerrymandered dumb-bell configuration, with a narrow link between Brooklyn and Queens, will retire to well-deserved oblivion, having enjoying its moment in the spotlight.
Henry J. Stern: Big Apple Turnover
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We were all too busy smoking dope, but even if we did drink it was never the full-on race to oblivion that happens today.
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A small, wobbly voice cut through the comforting blackness and oblivion, just audible above the constant hiss of the waves breaking on the slimy, moss-covered stone outside.
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But most famously he used to drink himself into oblivion.
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The Infernal City is set forty-odd years after the end of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and the most interesting parts of the book are those where we learn about the major events that transpired in that period, in particular those that gave rise to Umbriel itself.
The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel by Greg Keyes – review
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As industry convention usually has rejection leading to oblivion, it's a record we were probably not supposed to notice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Amabo Kcarab!!! you say his name backwards and it opens a portal which sucks american jobs into oblivion
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Most of his work has now been consigned to oblivion.
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Spock is balanced between refusion and oblivion—and I can't even help him!
THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
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He flung an arm across his face to shield off wakefulness, hoping to sink back into sweet oblivion.
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They seem dead keen to carry on that one-sided conversation and it will condemn them to oblivion.
The Sun
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Wind power presents too many advantages to be allowed to sink into oblivion.
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It seems a little over the top especially the term oblivion for it has hapenned before has metane relase and as part fo the 5 previous great extinctions and hey the planet is as beautiful and life still thrives
RealClimate
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The immigrant recorded the urban culture in which he found himself; the native son preserved a rural world that was fading into oblivion.
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Perpetually regenerating, these ‘super stars’ never fade into oblivion, only becoming brighter and brighter.
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Well he will sink into oblivion after McCain landslides him so we won't be bothered any more.
Obama continues to narrow Clinton's superdelegate lead
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Incredibly, this vertical shaft - called a moulin (French for mill) - manages to swallow this entire river into oblivion, the water plunging a third of a mile towards the base of the icecap.
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However, they are attacked by a group called The Scions of Oblivion, who believ an ancient artifact is buried under the school.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Novel-Writing Tip of the Day: Be Careful with Sequels
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Mixed rain and snow swirled thick about them like a promise of violence; the night-black water lay deep and viscid with cold, and seemed to suck at the whaler as though wishing to swallow it into black oblivion and sea-death.
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Or will we sink beneath the ocean to political oblivion?
The Sun
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The ancient civilization fellinto oblivion.
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In the fullness of time, ninety-nine percent of the bad, ugly, stupid, obtuse, and banal remains so, and remains so unmemorable that it sinks into oblivion.
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No doubt someone mentioned the notion of everyone responsible for such an assinine idea being sued into oblivion by passengers who end up with deep vein thrombosis or sicking up all over themselves or wetting the seat or ... whatever.
A taste test for Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
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The habitual, gentle and ordinarily longed-for oblivion of the end of the day had morphed into something considerably more sinister.
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A temporary oblivion in which you live but have no sentience.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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My body, stiffened and full of aches from the hardness of my conchy sore and bitten by bedbugs and other insects, finds now no rest; my soul no longer tastes the sleep that brings on oblivion.
Sketchy Thoughts
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Musical genius, gifted writer, indubitable king of narcotic and alcoholic excess, Zevon now shows us that, in the face of oblivion, he also has balls the size of cantaloupes.
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One managed a good snap at Moody's face before the pins from Ooljee's laser decussated its field, sending it flaring into oblivion.
Cyber Way
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Would her body betray her and fight to preserve its fleeing spirit, causing lingering agony instead of swift and final oblivion?
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They heard a great crashing and smashing of things before it gathered beyond the barricaded door breathing stillness and the chill of death and oblivion through the cracks in the door.
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The ACoC and ELCIC have been unified in their determination to continue a Gadarene plunge into the oblivion of diverse, inclusive neo-pagan Gaia worship and left wing political agitation.
The Anglican Church of Canada and Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada shacking up together « Anglican Samizdat
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His slightly ovine little face is only saved from total oblivion by the large pale ears on which the helmet rests.
Archive 2009-03-01
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If the achievements of the Thatcher years were not to be consigned to oblivion, then a tactical retreat was necessary.
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Beowulf is not a “primitive poem;” it is a late one, using the materials (then still plentiful) preserved from a day already changing and passing, a time that has now for ever vanished, swallowed in oblivion; using them for a new purpose, with a wider sweep of the imagination, if with a less bitter and concentrated force.
Ruins and Poetry: Beowulf
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But surely the great man never meant for this to apply to people like Hitler who was never going to be stopped by love but only by an eloquent loathing as articulated by Winston Churchill which summoned an allied campaign to carpet-bomb his war-making apparatus into oblivion.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Love the Victims, Loathe their Killers
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An entire poor section of town was bombed into oblivion.
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The real interesting story in oblivion is the one the player tells to himself using the tools at offered by the game's designers.
A post for Xenia: Simulation and an apologetic explanation of Super Columbine Massacre RPG
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As markets globalise, European exchanges will need to merge with their European rivals or risk oblivion.
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The restoration of the monarchy brought political oblivion, then intermittent government harassment for the rest of his life.
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He recalled the deafening thunder of the drums, the glare and the blood, the moon peering down through the branches like the face of a perverse divinity pale from pride, and the thought that had come to him there, in his sickness and lonely hopelessness -- that while some in a fit of decrepitude and despair might turn to God, others might turn to the oblivion promised by evil.
Sacrifice
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Not until life and existence implode into oblivion, nothingness, will the fighting end.
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It exists as an upward blip on a downward slide towards festive cognitive oblivion, but the blip is there.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rhytina has been exterminated in the far north, the elephant seals on Kerguelen are being exterminated in the far south, and midway, in the desert mountains of Lower California a fine species of mountain sheep is rapidly being shot into oblivion.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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Seven-foot Brian Zoubek added a free throw with 3.6 seconds left, the final touch on an eight-point, 10-rebound, two-block night that capped a remarkable ascension from the bench and career oblivion in the final two months of his career at Duke.
It wasn't easy, but title win special for Duke, Coach K
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By the following year, nearly all of the big names faced oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times
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BETWEEN twelve and one that Sunday night Katharine lay in bed, not asleep, but in that twilight region where a detached and humorous view of our own lot is possible; or if we must be serious, our seriousness is tempered by the swift oncome of slumber and oblivion.
Night and Day
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Another is a minuscule, dead-end space that was rescued from oblivion by a wall fountain and a pond.
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I remember that night you came into Bailey's to drink yourself into oblivion after Katherine died.
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One a so called iman representing Islam who will not give in to not building a recruiting station at the hallowed ground of ground zero where over 3,000 innocent America lives were blown to oblivion in just a matter of hours by 'radical' Islamic terrorists.
Undefined
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Coming fifth in a general election with only 4 per cent of the vote usually results in political oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plummeting drop of Oblivion?
The Sun
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Diane Mynors saved us from oblivion by playing in the Oxford Women's first eleven cricket team which defeated Cambridge.
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His new collection, Oblivion, contains eight stories of uncompromising difficulty, with certain superficial similarities.
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Consciousness had died, cold oblivion pulled the bodies down and down into the pit of unbeing.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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And his defpifed name entomb'd In dark oblivion lie i
The Psalms of King David Paraphrased, and Turned Into English Verse, According to the Common ...
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he sought the great oblivion of sleep
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_Et quid Pandoniae_ -- thus, little book, I charge you poultice your more-merited oblivion -- _quid Pandoniae restat nisi nomen Athenae_?
Chivalry
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But there came a day, and it came soon, when Horace, saw that triumphs gained in this way were of little value, and when he was anxious that his friends should join with him in consigning his smart and scurril lines (_celeres et criminosos Iambos_) to oblivion.
Horace
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Of course, there are also those who do not subscribe to any religious faith and who may believe that death leads to nothingness, oblivion.
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My smart, 86-year-old father, whose razor-sharp memory has been waning of late, was definitely sliding fast toward that old-age oblivion where time, facts and people all start to blur together, sometimes into one big happy fuzzball, but most times into fits and starts of remembering, consternation and forgetting again.
Carine Fabius: Unexpected Tears for the Holidays
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No expense or effort was spared in rescuing this classic from cinematic oblivion and finishing it with the utmost quality.
Weekend Weirdness: The Birdemic Craze Continues | /Film
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Her voice, her message, had little appeal after the Second World War, and her name, once instantly recognized by all, faded into virtual oblivion.
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In those waste regions of oblivion, dusky banners and tattered escutcheons indicated the graves of those who were once, doubtless, “princes in Israel.”
Rob Roy
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Yet, with unblenching brow, he waits the falling of the thunderbolt, a calm, grand figure, fit to live in history's pages when every memory of meaner men has passed into oblivion, M.T. Steyn,
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
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And if robots become truly autonomous, then the human race could face oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times
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The road to political oblivion is paved with good intentions out of control.
Times, Sunday Times
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A temporary oblivion in which you live but have no sentience.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
