Word: oblivion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...showed no signs of interest, for he was just back from an informative weekend in Moscow. He knew that even as Dean spoke preparations had begun for the Russian nuclear explosion that would not only rip a large hole out of Central Asia, but blast the Geneva talks into oblivion as well...
...sterility of existence as sold to you." His only weapon was a Forest Primeval complex, the traditional romantic battle cry of back to nature. The sickness of the romantic ego, and Lowry had this sickness, is to turn escape into flight, the quest for solitude into a fascination with oblivion, to fall "half in love with easeful death...
...next she is braining Hero Harvey for ripping open her blouse (with cretinous whinnies of "Open sesame!"). And where it was right for the hero to blow his brains out in the book, it seems pure melodrama for him to rage off in the film to obloquy and oblivion on his trusty green motorcycle...
Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, by John Cheever. Pursuing the invisible fly in the ointment of their lives, John Cheever's decent, middle-class people drop into a limbo of alcoholic oblivion, sexual promiscuity and lonely despair that very much resembles hell...
Second: The team in the majors, the Yankees, could very well other pennant this year, damned if I'll pick them Mantel, Roger Maris, and ron are broad-backed nonentities who slam the ball out of sight and return to oblivion immediately afterwards. Who cares? After what the Yankees did to Casey Stengel, nothing is too bad for them...