Examples of efface

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They are effaced because the fundamental theory-samaritanism-is not paternalistic and is not voluntaristic.
Their feeling of security was a self-deception, they were effacing an aspect of reality, a phenomenon which, in clinical psychiatry, is labelled denial.
Here a straight-forward identification of relativity principles and invariance or covariance principles effaces the key distinction between local and global.
Early deficits, if they occur, are effaced by subsequent development.
In these readings, the bodily presence of the lady is effaced by the poem's ending.
His bifurcation between para-structuralist discursivity and individualist self-invention effaces the concepts that link individual choice to social consequences.
Instead, he began to consider models for effacing a dualism between mechanism and organism.
Once it got overlaid on the map's magic carpet, the line on paper effaced memory of the telegraph line.
Characters are not integral and whole: they are partially imprinted, partially effaced, and ultimately fragmented to be remade.
Her entire memory appeared to have been effaced.
The passage from invention to medical use was now effaced, as was the history of its production and conditioning.
Romance's female audience has thus been benignly overlooked, glorified, or more subtly effaced.
Limiting investigations in this way emphasizes elite, verbal ways of knowing the world while effacing less textually oriented forms of cultural production.
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