annihilation

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How much can one film really change a world that seems like it’s careening faster and faster toward annihilation?

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Relations between Washington and Moscow were starting to thaw, yet a staggering stockpile of almost 70,000 nuclear warheads meant the threat of annihilation lingered in the air.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

Gauff summoned a ball kid and asked for three racquets to be restrung, and left the court for a toilet break after the first set annihilation.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

These are post-hope works, in other words, absorbed by death and annihilation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

The path unwound; perhaps it was taking them somewhere, willfully, since neither of them could step off it and go knowingly into the annihilation of whiteness that was the grass on either side.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson