Perhaps it is for this reason that hill running is sometimes depicted as an obscure offshoot of mainstream athletics. The slender figures, warped by an obscure anamorphosis, have been salvaged from the darkness, retrieved and figured. Three stops along the route, at an obscure request stop in Old Ford, a phalanx of 16 photographers were waiting to take our picture. Mr Sumption says, if necessary, that in the present case the phraseology is both obscure and ambiguous. Is the original line really so obscure that some lamebrain who has absent-mindedly wandered in off the street going to have difficulty with it?įor folklorists generally, folk beliefs and practices were regarded as the fragmentary and often obscure remnants of older systems. Stuffed with obscure allusions and historical minutia, his novels are not the type you take to the beach. That technique should bring out the curl but not obscure the beautiful rays of the lacewood. In fact, the word lambada is an obscure Brazilian Portuguese word, and refers to the wave like motion induced in a whip. Rafael starts speaking in an obscure accent as he collapses at the foot of the conference table. The object of covering a gift in paper is to obscure it from the receiver's view long enough for them to give you yours, right?īesides, they've got this universal broad appeal, whereas all I'm doing is wittering on about obscure pop music. These windslabs often obscure rocks and other hazards and react easily to skier traffic. His astonishing debut feature is one of the most wilfully obscure pieces of genre-busting cinema in a very long time. There is a seemingly limitless choice of the world's finest products as obscure and delicious as free-range acorn-fed Portuguese black boar. The Protestant public also wielded the power to obscure their influence in the public sphere and redefine the terms of public debate. You can't help wondering why a company that whittled Hamlet down to 90 minutes needs two-and-a-half hours for a relatively obscure Chekhov story.īlack clouds obscure flashes of orange light against the night sky in the city.īut what I wrote is probably more accurate in some obscure technical sense of reflecting my true agenda. The highly textured surface of these poems does not, however, obscure the continuous emotional undercurrent. No situation, however obscure, or however sacred, escaped the rapacity of the enemy. In the meantime I imagine my obscure rantings and categorisations may draw the odd comment from those versed in literary theory. Lastly, if the site or journal is too obscure, I may as well go post on some random message board.Įndless tributes, adulation and back rubs from his closest allies tend to obscure the truth.

I'm standing in the garage of a supercool geek guy who is building an obscure, rad, retro sportscar. No longer are you creatures of an accidental happening in an obscure corner of a randomly evolving cosmos.Īs if to counter the accusations of snootiness, not every selection is wilfully obscure. Jane accepts the position gratefully, even though it is monotonous, poor and obscure. Still, this is a Frank Black album, with its obscure references and abstruse lyrics. I would like to encourage you to take advantage of it, and to warn against impulses to hide, obscure, wallow, or control.Ĭertainly, if last night's showing was anything to go by, his work was somewhat abstract and obscure, and obviously an acquired taste. Only Bartoli could have made best-selling albums out of obscure arias by Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Gluck. Today lungs are found not only in land vertebrates but also in a few obscure fish lineages, such as gar, bichir, and lungfish.

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