Word: oblivion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your congressional committee duties would, whether you were right or wrong, invoke unending opposition of powerful political and academic forces. Almost alone, you went ahead. Under another great President you chose to serve though you knew that under one so colorful and popular, the Vice Presidency would mean an oblivion deeper than the shades of night . . . You have put into that office a maximum and mighty service of legislative accomplishment, of reconciliation of diverse forces . . . and promotion of international understanding and good will...
...Inexorable Laws of History went their iron way last week, sending the varsity lacrosse team down under Princeton to 15 to 2 oblivion, but then flaunted May Day and abandoned the scene, washing what hands Inexorable Laws might have...
...lowans may live on ham and corn-but J they despise condescension ("hamminess" and "corniness") from anyone. Let Harriman join ; those who have "foot-in-mouth" disease, and sink into oblivion...
...December issue of The Atlantic Menzel described the history of the universe as "indefinite expansion, the flashing of fireworks, a glorious blaze, followed by oblivion...
...outstanding example of an artist thus rescued from oblivion is the Pennsylvania Quaker Edward Hicks (1780-1849), whose primitive allegories (see color page) were unknown even to the leading painters of his own day. Not until 1930, when one of his paintings, Peaceable Kingdom (of which Hicks completed some 80 versions), was found in an antique-dealer's attic, was his name even known. The similarity of his work to Henri Rousseau's and a new appreciation of primitives, quickly placed Hicks as one of the most original of early American artists: the late French Painter Fernand...