Sentences with phrase «completely efface»

Cullman, following Luther, would have us select from this rich array only the single image of sleep, a tidy way to dispose of the doctrine of purgatory and to downplay if not completely efface the cult of the saints.

And further, what would it mean if we thought our moral sensibilities could be completely effaced?

Just 10 days after the anatomy scan, Kristen — experiencing mild spotting and the slightest backache — went to the emergency room, where it was discovered that she was completely effaced and dilating rapidly.

I was already dilated to between 3 - 4 centimeters and completely effaced, and had real and Braxton Hicks contractions daily for weeks.

Not exact matches

And yet, there are things that one can imagine happening to an apple (or a bone, or even a whole planet) that would efface it so completely, that no particles, atoms, bits of matter, or parcels of energy would remain that could meaningfully be asserted to have been the very ones that were once part of the original object.

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

It would have been humble, funny, and self - effacing, the kind of speech given by someone who was completely content with how everything turned out.

He was both forceful and self - effacing, remarkably candid, completely dedicated to his cause, and very opinionated.

These can be summarized as: the way his picture moves towards the edge of the canvas in centrifugal waves filling to the brim; his completely impulsive use of pigment as a material, generally thick, slow - flowing, viscous, with a sensual attitude toward it, as if it were the primordial material, with deep and vibratory color; the absence of any effacing of the tracks bearing the imprint of the energy passing over the surface.

In order to fill the time so as not to completely halt dramatic action, or, to help transition the mood from one act to the next, an «entr» acte» would unfold before a simple backdrop with a minimum of props; embracing the economy of the gap and the leverage of interval, the «entr» acte» occupies a space between denouement and spectacle, effacing and dispersing the subjective identification and vitalist discoveries often associated with theater.