obliteration

“I believe it was total obliteration,” the president told reporters.

They’re minors in the modern world, where naivete is a currency that buys a one-way ticket to the obliteration of their innocence.

And an obliteration of this magnitude required a perfect storm of factors that few would have predicted several days ahead of time.

The director is well aware that the heyday of American musicals on both stage and screen occurred amid the Great Depression, World War II, the Holocaust and the brink of nuclear obliteration.

The problem is that Ronan is also forging her compelling warts-and-all portrait of obliteration and recovery in another type of gale storm, that of undisciplined filmmaking at odds with the patient harvesting of characterization.