Sentences with phrase «as obliteration»

Kusama has noted that she began to see her surroundings through a screen of dots early in her life, and she later came to refer to the process as obliteration — the gradual removal of any trace of something.

Isn't this invasion of the countryside as pernicious as the obliteration of a dozen Twyford Downs?

Not exact matches

He asserts emphatically: «The gospel (without in the least slighting any other of the things it preaches) must be interpreted as requiring abolition of the class system, an end of the American bombing of Vietnam and of the wasteful armaments competition, and the obliteration of anachronistic frontiers.»

Grace seems to come, when it does come, as a radical disruption and even obliteration of the order of nature.

Not only does Buddhism know little or nothing of such a form of selfhood, but Buddhist «death» or enlightenment entails an obliteration or dissolution of any awareness of selfhood as such.

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

As with the ark, Grudem makes no mention of these passages or the groaning creation of Romans 8 waiting in «eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed,» looking to Christians for signs of liberation not obliteration.

Our conventionality, (See the case in Lecture III, above, where the writer describes his experiences of communion with the Divine as consisting «merely in the temporary obliteration of the conventionalities which usually cover my life.»)

Sometimes we go so far as to kill those whom we view as threats to our selfish freedom, even going so far as to make public calls from the pulpits in our country to call for the obliteration and destruction of whole groups of people in other parts of the world because we view them as a threat to our way of life.

And a newspaper columnist, admitting it would be «a messy task,» demanded «total obliteration of Germany as a nation.»

This is such a radical obliteration of culture and tradition — let us say, of Jesus and Jefferson — as to awe any Bolshevik, of course.

Depending on his school of thought and the particular concepts of the section of the Party with which he identified himself, he might differ from his fellows as to the manner in which he hoped to effect his regeneration, but his true aim was the complete obliteration of the past.

In the meantime, I am convinced that gratification can be as real as craving and that love does not require the total obliteration of otherness as Altizer maintains.

«This report demonstrates that the obsessive obliteration of vital information and guidance by the Coalition Government is leaving children and young people highly vulnerable and is placing additional burdens on schools as they have to use their own time and resources to plug the gap.»

The system of regions and states preserving their autonomy in relation to local matters such as education, healthcare, language, chieftaincy, local government, intra-state commerce, local policing etc. while federating together regarding matters such as currency, defence and national security, foreign relations, customs and excise etc. liberates diverse peoples by removing the fear of obliteration of their local identity while allowing for synergies at the national level that benefit everyone.

And should finally put to rest the intended ending as not self - obliteration, but a burst of magical realism in flight «out of this world and into the mass unconscious.»

What saves The Hobbit from complete obliteration is the memory of The Lord of the Rings, which saw nominations for The Fellowship of the Rings and The Two Towers as well as Best Picture and Director Oscars for The Return of the King.

The exposure of the image dramatically shifts as the impact fills the entire screen and the soundtrack drops out to a suspended silence, creating an unexpectedly serene moment of obliteration, hope, sacrifice and survival.

As for the way the inner inhabitants are created, if the obliteration [of sentient beings] occurs through fire, then the life span, merit, and karma of the gods of Ābhāsvara at the second realm of concentration will be obliterated and they will meet with death.

Do not underestimate the beautiful world of Aion, because if you do, a giant rabbit and an out of proportion, fire - blasting squirrel will reveal themselves to you as tools of obliteration — aka banhammers — that will effectively put you out of your cheating misery.

The first is Obliteration in which both teams via for control of a bomb that they must deliver into enemy territory and detonate, making for a frantic tug of war as both sides manage to halt the bomb's explosion at the last second, grab it and make a run for the objective.

The answer is a metric butt - load of tweaks and improvements, both to performance and the netcode, as well as a brand new Squad Obliteration mode.

A new modes called Obliteration makes its debut, and now Domination (seen previously in the Close Quarters expansion for BF3) makes a return as a standard multiplayer mode in BF4.

Game modes in «Battlefield 4» include mainstays such as Rush, Domination, Conquest, Team Deathmatch and Deathmatch, as well as new additions, Obliteration and Defuse.

By the end of the first game zone, we tried to ensure that the player knew the goals of the game, as well as understanding the principle game mechanics, and also setting the scene for the rest of the Obliteration Game story.

The Winter Patch is designed to improve netcode and soldier collision, as well as tweak the Squad Obliteration game mode so it becomes the lead competitive mode in DICE's first - person shooter.

Recently showing at the Tate Modern, Yayoi Kusama's interactive Obliteration Room began as an entirely white space, furnished as a monochrome living room, which people were then invited to «obliterate» with multi-coloured stickers.

New paintings displayed alongside these immersive rooms continue an enduring preoccupation with multiplying polka dots and dense scalloped «infinity net» patterns — Kusama's obsessive repetition of these forms on canvas, which she has described as a form of active self - obliteration, responds to hallucinations first experienced in childhood.

Kusama is one of the world's most widely recognizable living artists known for her signature polka dot - filled installations such as her series of «Obliteration Rooms» where visitors themselves cover an otherwise empty room with colourful dot stickers.

Figuration is often marginalized — along with prewar American art in general — in mainstream accounts of the 20th century, which is typically portrayed as a progressive obliteration of figural representation.

On display will be an example of Yayoi Kusama's iconic Infinity Net paintings — seriality as a form of self - obliteration and self - definition — and a painting by the late US artist Mildred Thompson, who often found inspiration in scientific theories and universal systems, and whose buzzing palette of yellows and reds and calligraphic brushstrokes evoke the invisible forces of magnetic energy.

Kusama has said she's interested in the concept of «self - obliteration,» seeing her kaleidoscopic installations as connecting her viewers so completely to their surrounding environment that their sense of self is lost.

The first exhibition of the collection is a chronological hit parade of American artists from Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as more recent works from elsewhere: Takashi Murakami's long pictorial mural that was inspired by the Fukushima disaster and an emotionally charged cityscape in the process of obliteration, «Cairo» by Julie Mehretu, that dates from 2013.

McVeigh isolates pages from sources such as sailing manuals, old encyclopedias and book keeping ledgers and assaults them with drawing or mark - making, prompting dialogues through obliteration and accretion.

Taking The Obliteration Room as its centerpiece, this catalogue reveals, in vivid large - scale plates, the transformation of the space from a clean white interior to a stunningly saturated room, with ceilings, walls and furniture covered in multicolored stickers put there by viewers over the course of the exhibition.

As we tread along the path of evolution, we face the possibility of obliteration.

Professor Wadhams does not sponsor any radical «obliteration» concepts, as indicated by the title of this article, but he does lay out, whether intentionally or not, in a compelling interview with Tom Hartmann, the groundwork for how it could happen, if human / anthropogenic activity stays the current course: An Ice Free Arctic???... A Reality Soon?

They were so dispersed, heterogeneous, and integrated into civil population from the outset, in large measure due to their origins as a civilian militia, that only complete obliteration of Afghanistan would have eradicated them entirely.