These claims - legitimate, by the way - do not emerge from total oblivion, but it's close.

Any moment now I would sink into total oblivion.

Direct-to-video is where fading stars go to pay the mortgage and avoid total oblivion.

Only for a startled second did he regain his senses; then came total oblivion.

The quantity and speed of alcohol consumption are dangerously high and the goal seems to be total oblivion.

He changed the view to show the tanker, streaking to its doom in total oblivion.

Since that time it has slipped into total oblivion and has not been performed ever since.

A much more flexible and pro-active strategy was needed, unless Labour was to pass into total oblivion.

To be creative in mathematics, you have to start from a point of total oblivion.

He was lying in a state of total oblivion.