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Sentence Examples The city's police began looking for Brown, but when early efforts did not yield success, the case began to slide into obscurity. After their 15 minutes of fame, freed political dissenters are abandoned to a life of obscurity and poverty. There's a tendency to obscurity when what the free market demands is quality control and open competition. The intoxicating obscurity of ancient Japanese culture is shown to be irrational and confusing. Oramo shrugged off the Jeremiahs who were predicting that without Rattle the CBSO would back into obscurity. I have risen from the depths of emerging art obscurity and anonymity into mainstream professional success. In 1990 Kyrgyz reformers picked a physicist essentially out of obscurity to run their country. The paintings of a Mancunian former teacher have taken the art world by storm after years of obscurity. The result of giving the words their ordinary meaning is not absurd or unreasonable, nor is there ambiguity or obscurity. This can result in obscurity or in a ruling which is ambiguous on matters of importance. Because Anabaptism was censured throughout much of Western Europe, the writings of the Anabaptists themselves remained in virtual obscurity. He is the world-renowned authority and registrar on the species he rescued from obscurity. He lived very frugally in a small thatched cottage at Ickford in the greatest obscurity and anchorism. He is also responsible for bringing a number of actors out of obscurity and into the limelight, including James Dean in the film East of Eden. One of the world's most extensive audio archives has been rescued from obscurity, ready for remastering and reuse. In late 2003, the film rocketed to acclaim from self-released obscurity in a matter of months. All of these men would have lived out their lives in impotent obscurity had their families remained in England. As one critic sardonically put it, their dollar salaries rise in inverse proportion to the obscurity of their work. Apart from anything else, this secretiveness adds up to the cardinal sin of security by obscurity. While bassist and drummer are resigned to lucrative obscurity, the lead guitarist is almost famous. Show More Sentences Too much Ancient School throwdown rap is jocked for obscurity rather than quality. For the last few decades he has lived in obscurity, in self-imposed exile in Italy. Both men are time-servers who, at a single nod from the conqueror, will sink into primitive obscurity. Tirelessly and in almost complete obscurity, they toil to clean up the environment. When the officials raise the garage door there is a sudden burst of light which suggests that he is being pulled from the shadows of obscurity. Any contribution that brings the life and thought of a woman out of the shadows of historical obscurity is a valuable contribution. A man in the purple robes and small miter of the Order stepped from the obscurity. We must guard against the temptation to cloud it with complexity or dissect it to obscurity. Country Medicine is easily McCann's best work to date and has led, inevitably, to less of that blessed obscurity. Harriet Smithson may have been the muse who inspired Berlioz's most celebrated symphony but she herself dies in obscurity and misery. But for many years now bombast, rant, and confident obscurity have been his reigning notes. Hitherto hopeless footballing nations suddenly emerged from obscurity and started to make a bit of a name for themselves. His novel was plucked from the obscurity of the slush pile by the wife of his agent Luigi Bonomi. To have many planets debilitated in this way in a nativity is considered a sign of obscurity and low birth. Based in Austin, Texas, this songbird spent years in obscurity before this debut. Until now it has remained undocumented, the circumstances of its commissioning veiled in utter obscurity. Filed away in studios or tucked deeply in the archives of a few public collections, these prints lapsed from obscurity into oblivion. The Office of Strategic Influence went from obscurity to infamy to oblivion during a spin cycle that lasted just seven days in late February. Liverpool need to beat Portsmouth at home on Tuesday to halt the slide towards mid-table obscurity. Grenada's emergence from international obscurity was the culmination of four turbulent years of revolution and social experimentation. Show More Sentences The album and the artist slid into obscurity, forgotten by all but the few who stumbled across a copy in a dusty cellar. Talking of slides into obscurity, William reports that the Socialist Workers Party, now admit to having little more than 3,000 members. Anxiousness sets in as the prospect of a government-funded retirement fades into obscurity and financial planning has suddenly become a reality. Where fighting spirit is required in enormous quantities to avoid the inevitable slide into Nationwide League obscurity. These large allegorical works, even when seen in person, present difficulties of access due to two sorts of obscurity. Given the obscurity and perceived difficulty of his oeuvre, he is literature's white whale, Rosebud, and Bigfoot combined. It is possible that all the planetary orbs originate from an early attempt to record heliacal obscurity. The record was by a group that has since faded into obscurity, The Harmonicats, three Chicagoans who played chromatic harmonicas. Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. To a large extent these had been pushed into obscurity, but such languages as Coptic and Syriac can already be found in the later empire. Eventually he left the newspaper, after being criticized for the obscurity of his poetry and the coarseness of his language. Many critics of contemporary American poetry have mistaken these assertions for an advocacy of impersonality, obscurity, or evasion. The life of the powerful wonderworker would have ended in ignoble solitude and inglorious obscurity. Ward would, I imagine, deplore its readiness to embrace cultural dissolution, its reckless fideism, and its unnecessary obscurity. And even the reputations of major figures at times fluctuate, with periods of obscurity intermitting their fame. He plucks old characters from obscurity, brings them together and makes them dance. A very few were successful while others turned out one or two flying machines before fading into the obscurity of time. Error, obscurity, conceptual fuzziness, and sheer ignorance are part of science, just as they are in any other human activity. Like the mythical emperor's new clothes, the obscurity of highbrow discourse was merely a mystique that charlatans used to confound the gullible. Of course, the true champion for many trees probably grows in obscurity like a wannabe actor waiting to be discovered. Show More Sentences Long considered too time consuming and laborious, shadowbox flaming has risen from the depths of obscurity to become a retailer's dream. This album was responsible for saving the form of drum and bass from slipping into obscurity. Anonymity refers to the apparent obscurity of the Net's users. I soon found in effect it was impossible for me to declare it, considering the contrast of the solitariness of my long obnubilation and obscurity. He died in obscurity in Paris in 1792, never having another opportunity to command a fleet. The film's journey from obscurity to rediscovery is a tale in itself. She was plucked from relative obscurity to star alongside Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman in the TV adaptation. That kind of smart person cannot countenance the idea of obscurity as a fate. He was arrested and released on bail, whereafter he quit music and fled to Paris with his girlfriend Pamela Jones to start a new life in obscurity. But in his obscurity he's free to make sparse use of gentle wurring noises and allow intermittent glitches to engulf the beauty of his ukulele and string-laden folk songs. The verse form with its metrical demands, while it aided memorization, led to greater obscurity of expression than prose composition would have entailed. I was immortal then, a tiny speck in the grand scheme of things, someone who was to make a mark on the world and seemed to just let that mark slide away into obscurity. Such Delphic obscurity was not inspired by mere perverseness. Rather than following the standard rules of composition, the figures and objects appear to hang in obscurity, floating across a somber background. Why has this area of law emerged from the shadows of obscurity? Our family in general isn't very close, so there's nothing I can really do about that, and I'm still waiting for the right lady to pluck me out of my obscurity. And I have always despised the monkish obscurity cultivated by certain academics. But the film disappeared from sight after that viewing, sliding into complete obscurity and while I never forgot it I also never even learned its name. Some of the authors most revered by their contemporaries now languish in relative obscurity. Will she settle down to a life of quiet obscurity and shooting parties and marry an aristocrat like the establishment hopes? Show More Sentences In previous centuries, a Roman aristocrat who made a political misstep ended in obscurity or exile. These are the lost poems of the lost modernist, David Jones, a man whose allusive obscurity won him fans like Eliot and Auden but robbed him of his place in college curricula. Or do you think the gutless coward has sex-changed himself into obscurity? Instead, they will be at best a stale and bitter punchline of our times and then fade, unloved, into obscurity. Such anacoluthon is usually graceful and free from obscurity. Relative obscurity and penury, her anthem claims, rule just as hard as the point-oh-oh-one percent realm of excess and access. Translations into clear and readable English actually fail to convey the stylistic obscurity and difficulty of his Greek. He was repelled by the obscurity of its content and the barbarous style of the rather primitive version made by half-educated missionaries in the second century. There being no second chamber in Holyrood, why not use Westminster as a kind of House of Lords, where former leaders can harmlessly serve out their twilight days in obscurity? Here is a figure who rose from obscurity to create masterworks with the greatest musical mind of all time. Here is a poet who abandoned his vocation to sell tobacco. The music behind him feels bolder and more courageous, too, as the veil of obscurity that guarded so much of their previous releases has vanished. The writing is elegant with only occasional lapses into obscurity. Critical of unnecessary obscurity and jargon of modernist discourse, post-modernism has created a paralleled obscurity of hermeneutics, deconstruction and textual nihilism. Much of the trial, and the pretrial hearings that led up to it, have been conducted in managed obscurity. Almost the entire print run vanished immediately, dooming the novel to decades of obscurity. Due to the obscurity of one nation's declaration of war against a small part of another, the Dutch did not officially declare peace. She had a 1908 photograph which she gave to the elderly Joseph Furphy whose writing of Such is Life she lifted from obscurity. Long a crate-digger's grail and never before available on CD, this is one obscurity that really lives up to the hype. There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptized. Setup plays can also be made when you do not have the needed letter but believe your opponent doesn't know the hook owing to its obscurity. Show More Sentences Following his abdication, John Balliol lived out his life in obscurity in Picardy, France. The societas declined into obscurity in the time of the emperors, as most of their services were taken over by direct agents of the state. After a long period of relative obscurity he has now been recognised as one of the most important scientists of his age. According to articles, reports and a biography, Turpin couldn't deal with the obscurity resulting from the loss of his crown. Superseded by the River Lagan as the more important river in the city, the Farset now languishes in obscurity, under High Street. Many authors who have won the prize have fallen into obscurity, while others rejected by the jury remain widely studied and read. Eventually, Balliol was sent to France, and retired into obscurity, taking no more place in politics. According to Edward Hall's Chronicle, she was buried in relative obscurity in Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight. The remaining transdanubian Bastarnae disappear into historical obscurity in the late empire. In 1218, Genghis Khan destroyed the Qara Khitai after which the Khitan passed into obscurity. The second circle consists of features which may become internationally common or may fall into obscurity. Things such as security through obscurity become common practices that usually have damaging results. This security through obscurity proved adequate for our prototype, but it was unacceptable for a turnin service in wide use. Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem. He'd been plucked from obscurity and thrust into the national spotlight. On a perhaps more frivolous note, another quality of Britton's work that makes his undeserved obscurity so surprising is its eminent quotability. Oxbow lakes aren't always much too look at, and live lives of relative obscurity. Then they lose and return to obscurity, serving in state or local office. The very obscurity of the Latinism should give you a sense of how daunting a task the research into customary international law is. Let him become a bench warmer at another club, then watch him fade into obscurity like Wright-Phillips. Show More Sentences After years of laboring in relative obscurity, black investment banks take the spotlight by doing unprecedented deals. By program's end Reed had successfully propelled himself from obscurity to minor fame as the Lord Haw-Haw of the Cold War. Paul Brannigan, 25, has won rave reviews since being plucked from obscurity to become a leading man by veteran director Ken Loach. Bren walks the fine line of becoming one of the greatest comedians ever or dying in complete obscurity. After toiling a few million years in relative obscurity, Scrat hit the big-time with his co-starring role in ICE AGE, Twentieth Century Fox's 2002 animated hit. He lived out his last years in Cardiff and in effect died in obscurity. The floor-cloth deadened his footsteps as he moved in that direction through the obscurity, which was broken only by the faintest reflected night-light from without. However, it is lacking a central principle and clear cut organization, and complicatedness, discrepancy, obscurity and diverse features are its inseparable features. Most of these have fallen into obscurity, but some became established, including The Swiss Family Robinson, which borrowed Crusoe's first name for its title. In explicating the material within what is now Matthew 13, glossators often took the opportunity to elaborate on the whys and wherefores of verbal obscurity. Blood transfusions fell into obscurity for the next 150 years. Richard Cromwell subsisted in straitened circumstances after his resignation, he went abroad and lived in relative obscurity for the remainder of his life. Many who are cushioned on thrones would have remained in obscurity. It was a bewildering theophany, since it was impossible to make out anything clearly in the stormy obscurity of thunder, lightning, smoke and wind. The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity. And as the dwarf lookalike with tombstone teeth returned to the American obscurity for which he was designed we were left wondering why he was so thuggishly rude. During the past twenty years or so farmers in the Cedarberg region, from Citrusdal to Nieuwoudtville, have raised the rooibos tea industry from obscurity to minor boom. Though the Rubik's Cube later fell into relative obscurity, it's back. Yet the relative obscurity of the meres and mosses means they have not attracted the amount of conservation funding seen in other areas of comparable importance. His accomplishments slipped mostly into obscurity for more than 300 years. Show More Sentences There is also some jargonizing obscurity in the book's own language. As for the writer who attributes the phenomenon to the ocean, his account is involved in such obscurity that it is impossible to disprove it by argument. Instead the living dead will read autocues before returning to obscurity. Examples from Classical Literature His sole virtue is his obscurity, the sharpness of his bones his only protection. The secret of that obscurity lies hidden in the quantitative side of labor. Treated as the offscouring of all things, he was at last contemptuously beheaded in utter obscurity. Some chance remark of a less well-known writer, may clear up the obscurity and show that SLA was Dil-dr. A comparison of its elements with those of the royal jelly, may throw some light on subjects as yet involved in obscurity. To some, obscurity itself is attractive, from the hope that worthiness is the cause of it. If this can illumine the obscurity, it will all be on the positive side of the inquiry. He knew she did not expect to need an enhanced complexion in this obscurity. There was a certain obscurity in Eustacia's beauty, and Venn's eye was not trained. Troubled as the future was, it was the unknown future, and in its obscurity there was ignorant hope. The effect produced by this gradation of obscurity was intensified by constructional artifices. Where there is no danger of obscurity, the subject must not be separated from the predicate by any point. Until the tail-light of the train glimmered into obscurity around the curve, Remsen stood uncovered in the gale. Her great distress was to realise that she was alone in the obscurity at such moments. It was unbolted, as I had anticipated, and we were soon in the quiet and obscurity of the tanyard. The Revolution cost him his office as licenser, and the remainder of his life was spent in obscurity. Aetolia gave to the heroic age the names of Meleager and Diomed, but subsequently fell into complete obscurity. Through the obscurity Rash could see only that the man was well built, flashily dressed, and that he wore a sweeping mustache. In the darkness, and the further obscurity caused by the flying water, the bowsprit had fouled the towline. The man who is to be the father of the future dukes must not be allowed to fritter away his time in obscurity. Show More Sentences There were two figures dimly visible in the obscurity of the vaulted entrance to the water gate. It recalled to her the ways of his pathetic youth, his youth that obscurity made wild and shy and unassured. The name rang savagely in the groining of the arch, echoed dully in the obscurity in which the fierce struggle went on. I went after him into a low unlit passage, at the back of which a ladder-like staircase rose into obscurity. In short, it was the dreary existence of unalleviated obscurity. The muleteer remained hidden in the obscurity of the vestibule. This irreverent biopic takes hilarious liberties with the truth to trace the two men's journey from obscurity to musical demi-gods. Hello, we've gone back to the amusements of our days of neglect and obscurity for consolation, have we? I have no doubt they could see me in that rayless obscurity, and they did not seem to have any fear of me apart from the light. These are but conjectural reasons for the obscurity of those years. The obscurity lent him courage to keep his eves fastened as ardently as he liked upon the girl who sat in the firelight. The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. In the remoter parts of the room, however, its walls being so ill adapted to reflect light, there was nearly the same obscurity as before. Young women have committed similar follies often before, and have repented them in poverty and obscurity often before. Lallement died in obscurity, but his invention rived on and Bicycle chronicles its adventures right up to the present time. Immediately afterwards, however, the obscurity was enveloping. All around and above the furnace, there was total obscurity. So the honest, brown cookies crumbled away in obscurity, while Polly tried to satisfy her hearty appetite on one ice and three macaroons. Surely no mortal can decipher such a farrago of alphabetical obscurity. After a little while, the twilight, deepened by the shadows of the fruit-trees and the surrounding buildings, threw an obscurity over the garden. Show More Sentences There is much obscurity about the beginnings of the laws of the Hebrews. The Hermit Kingdom of Korea has been roughly dragged out of obscurity. There was no soft blending, or kind obscurity, or elusive mistiness in that searching glitter. Then there is an obscurity of poets, a run of cowards, a ticktock of clocks, an assemblage of jigsaw puzzlers and an annoyance of mobile phones. Still there is so much obscurity in the Indian traditions, and so much confusion in the Indian names, as to render some explanation useful. Somewhere through the labyrinthine obscurity his death sought him. His fortunes waned and it seemed that Turpin couldn't deal with the obscurity resulting from the loss of his crown. Beyond that the tints darkened into fine gradations of ultramarine, and faded into vague obscurity. The origin of thuggee is entirely lost in fable and obscurity. And Gervaise carefully took another ten steps in the obscurity. An impenetrable obscurity pressed down upon the ghostly glimmers of the sea. During the Beida Period, the leading intellectuals at Beijing University brought folklore from obscurity to perspicuity. The life that passes in penury must necessarily pass in obscurity. Darkness hemmed him in, in rayless and triumphant obscurity. My eyes, accustomed to obscurity, traced an indistinct and recumbent form. And we view Kentucke situated on the fertile banks of the great Ohio, rising from obscurity to shine with splendor, equal to any other of the stars of the American hemisphere. The age of cassettes is mostly behind us but this comp has some of the rawest and punkest tracks I've heard in a long time, from bands that languished in utter obscurity. All beneath the fantastic limbs and ragged tree tops, which were, here and there, dimly painted against the starry zenith, lay alike in shadowed obscurity. Questions daily occur in the course of practice, which prove the obscurity which reins in these subjects, and which puzzle the greatest adepts in political science. One comes upon them in their obscurity, unknown, preparing themselves. Show More Sentences But my nostrils snuffed up a scent of cigar smoke, clouds of which the narrator had emitted by way of visible emblem, I suppose, of the nebulous obscurity of his tale. After that Maria dropped back into her old obscurity and Martin began to notice the respectful manner in which he was regarded by the small fry of the neighborhood. A chill gust of wind, wandering through the damp and sooty obscurity over the waste of roofs and chimney-pots, touched his face with a clammy flick. Pudd'nhead was still toiling in obscurity at the bottom of the ladder, under the blight of that unlucky remark which he had let fall twenty-three years before about the dog. A still greater obscurity lies in the distinctive characters by which the objects in each of these great departments of nature have been arranged and assorted. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of obscurity? Words that rhyme with obscurity What is the plural of obscurity? What is the adverb for obscurity? What is the adjective for obscurity? What is the noun for obscurity? Translations for obscurity Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words obscurities obscuring obscures obscurely obscured obscure obsecrate obsequies obsequious obsequiously obsequiousness observable 9-letter Words Starting With o ob obs obsc obscu obscur obscuri obscurit