Cindy Sherman

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

American Photographer

Yayoi Kusama

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

Japanese Artist

Roger Ebert

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

American Critic

Daniel H. Pink

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

American Author

Robert Jay Lifton

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

American Psychologist

Marcel Pagnol

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.

French Dramatist

John Keats

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

English Poet

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

American Politician

Barry Manilow

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

American Musician

Jacques Delors

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

French Economist

Use 'obliterate' to describe something destroyed beyond recognition or repair.

Total Destruction

'Obliterate' can be hyperbolic, emphasizing the extreme effect of an action.

Hyperbolic Intensity

Often used in contexts of war and conflict to describe total defeat.

Intensity in Conflict

Refers to physically removing signs, writing, or marks, leaving no trace.

Physical Erasure

Conveys a sense of finality, as if the erased item never existed.

Finality

'Obliterate' suggests more than 'remove' - it's as if the item is completely destroyed.

Complete Removal

When used figuratively, it means to completely disregard or ignore an idea or fact.

Mental Dismissal

It can denote making something appear unimportant or insignificant.

Emphasize Insignificance

'Obliterate' can describe the act of removing something from someone's awareness or memory.

Psychological Effect

 I am going to tell you how I do it, and the most important thing I've learned. So I go on television. I debate people who literally want to obliterate everything I believe in -- in some cases, who don't want me and people like me to even exist. It's sort of like Thanksgiving with your conservative uncle on steroids,

Let's try emotional...

 was used during the war to camouflage gun sights and bomb dumps you can paint a building the colour of its surroundings but it will still be obvious for it casts a telltale shadow the way to obliterate the shadow is to put a drape round the sides and this is

Attenborough Finds a...

 We are gaining momentum and soon, we will be gaining on the crisis. But it is essential that everyone join -- of every political persuasion, every ideological persuasion, every nationality, every division has to be obliterated, so that we, humanity,

How we can turn the tide...

 It's just sitting there ready to obliterate anything that becomes a threat. Or maybe they're not that intelligent. Or perhaps, the evolution of an intelligence capable of creating sophisticated technology is far rarer than we've assumed. After all,

Why Can't We See...

 A single, large asteroid could take us out forever. To survive we have to reach beyond the home planet. Think what a tragedy it would be if all that humans have accomplished were suddenly obliterated. And there's another reason we should

Your kids might live on...

 It's just sitting there ready to obliterate anything that becomes a threat. Or maybe they're not that intelligent, or perhaps the evolution of an intelligence capable of creating sophisticated technology is far rarer than we've assumed.

Questions No One Knows...

 I killed three people. Two of them were obliterated into pieces. And one of them, watched him bleed out and then watched an infrared become the same color as the ground that he died on.

What It's Like to Be a...

 once declared, “If we are ever to have peace and annexation the first thing to do is obliterate the past.” They failed at this goal. Queen Lili’uokalani left a resilient

The dark history of the...

 which basically obliterated his ability to lay down new autobiographical memories. He lost his hippocampus, which is a brain region very important for this function.

Anil Seth: How your...

 quietly so repeat these stereotypes aggressively obliterate the old ones because these are stereotypes worth spreading okay I couldn't help myself