What's the best way to do a blind delete or update?

I want the equilvalent of:

delete from table where colvalue = 'foo'; -- or even, just "delete from table" to clear it.

I see the section on SQL queries, but a query isn't what I need... (or is it?)

Does that help
[url]http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/api/net/sf/hibernate/Session.html#delete(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Object[],%20net.sf.hibernate.type.Type[])[/url]