Sentences with phrase «obliteration means»

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The focus in interpreting St. Paul's words has usually been on the obliteration of distinctions, rather than on what it means to be «heirs according to promise.»

An alternative view would hold that elimination does not mean sheer obliteration but rather that an individual feels all of his past with greater or less intensity or vividness.

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.

The anxious self can make its own self - gratification the sole object of desire, or sensuality becomes a convenient means of escape from the self's agony through the obliteration of feeling, the plunge into nothingness.

They converge on a steel saw blade akin a violently mad constellation of stars where the center holds but the fringes mean obliteration.