Noun … who shall … through the palpable obscure find out his uncouth way … ? - John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667 See MoreĪdjective Not certain, favorite actors, but all of them, even the most wooden, the most obscure, the irretrievably forgotten. They accused the company of trying to obscure the fact that the product poses a health risk. The true history has been obscured by legends about what happened. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818 1989 It was eight o'clock when we landed we walked for a short time on the shore enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines. Stanley Crouch, New York Times Book Review, 2 Apr. 1990 … … "Early Jazz" brought a sometimes Olympian precision to writing about an art that has often languished in the whale's belly of sociology, obscured by pretension and blubbery thinking. Helen Vendler, New Republic, 10 June 2002 But evening comes or even noon and some combination of nervous tensions obscures my memories of what whiskey costs me in the way of physical and intellectual well-being. Verb Throughout this book, the ground of fact becomes obscured entirely by a deep layer of speculative quicksand.
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The movie is full of obscure references that only pop culture enthusiasts will understand. Catherine Drinker Bowen, Francis Bacon, 1963 Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, 1991 Now at last Bacon could refer when he chose to his father's high position and his father's service-and no man could say it was done for self-aggrandizement, as a son who is obscure bespeaks the glory of past forebears.
Kaplan, The Arabists, 1993 I knew they were special from their jeans and T-shirts, their knowing, ironic looks when obscure works of literature were referred to. Adam Kirsch, New Yorker, 5 July 2004 But by 1830 the Boston Mission Board was desperate enough that it targeted an obscure sect of Oriental Christians, the Nestorians in faraway Iran, as a possibility for conversion.
Adjective Many people shared an obscure sense of gratification that Thomas had died young, as a poet should.
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