Razes

All that remains is a curling column of smoke reaching into the sky after the casting of a catastrophic spell that razes the once great city to nothing but ruin and dust. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Anyone who resides in New York knows that the city lives to fall in and out of love; it prematurely glorifies and razes its authors, designers, politicians and foremost its athletes. ❋ Jason Gay (2012)

Until China, for example, concludes that it will have to act like a maritime power in a far away place after all, kills the pirates and razes their bases, hauls away their women as concubines and enslaves their children in IPad factories, and sows antipersonnel land mines in their fields – but then offers them a deal on their undersea oil and mineral rights. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Twitch called the film “a genre mash of science fiction and a young parenting drama,” and said “The center-piece of the picture, the combination of ‘girl-in-suit,’ make-up, and Greg Nicotero prosthetics takes the uncanny valley, razes it to the ground and rebuilds its central creature into something simply wonderful” but warns that “fans of balls out monster movies will be a bit baffled by the films deliberate pacing.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

His crew of Wyoming artists, including Santa Fean transplant Pat Kikut, tend toward kitsch as a tool in their arsenal that razes overly romanticized views of the West -- a West they know from daily life. ❋ ArtScene (2010)

“The center-piece of the picture, the combination of ‘girl-in-suit,’ make-up, and Greg Nicotero prosthetics takes the uncanny valley, razes it to the ground and rebuilds its central creature into something simply wonderful” ❋ Unknown (2009)

But alas, as US Airways razes its Pittsburgh hub it's unlikely I'll find myself connecting there again. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Rocky Delgadillo razes the drug house of a notorious LA gang with bulldozers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Irby Walton with Hampton Trucking of Dallas razes a house after a ceremony. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our earliest Christian sources show that we are dealing with a highly interventionistic type of god who raises people from the dead, drives out demons, razes whole cities Jerusalem... to punish sins, sends holy spirits to let his chosen ones see things in a holy book that other mortals cannot see, is going to recreate the cosmos etc etc. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

Wii wud trai 2 take a poll 2 c hao mennee cheezpeeps dere r, but sum of dem razes mohr dan 2 hands. ❋ Unknown (2008)

February 22, 2008 at 9:37 am hmmm. *razes won spoklike eyebrau* ❋ Unknown (2008)

Just when you thought you understood Web 2.0, along comes a theory so disruptive it razes everything in its path. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Blakely, in contrast, razes the entire structure of something as basic to the justice system as criminal sentencing. ❋ Unknown (2004)