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    obscurity


    1. essentially pre-war cars, and we two settled into mid-terraced obscurity


    2. I measured time in solid blocks of obscurity punctuated by the slide of battered tin across concrete


    3. It is also because of lack of support that people are forced out of the potential to live a regular life and into a void of obscurity


    4. obscurity of history, until, wrapped up in the mundane chores and


    5. Despite its apparent obscurity, this part of the market was bustling


    6. He grunted in sudden anger and raised his fist high in preparation to cast it into the waves, into final obscurity


    7. It would return to another kind of obscurity, this time


    8. “But we,” she gestured to ChériAna, Tei and herself, “were as determined as ever to not let such a valuable individual slip into obscurity


    9. And when the obscurity dissipated, a lute had replaced the flute in the man’s hand


    10. The subject in which, after a very few simple and almost obvious truths, the most careful attention can discover nothing but obscurity and uncertainty, and can consequently produce nothing but subtlelies and sophisms, was greatly cultivated

    11. But as soon as he comes into a great city, he is sunk in obscurity and darkness


    12. He never emerges so effectually from this obscurity, his conduct never excites so much the attention of any respectable society, as by his becoming the member of a small religious sect


    13. He feared that he might fall and obscurity would overcome him, but as he stumbled backwards, his foot hit something solid


    14. There, people can breathe clean, fresh, unpolluted and uncontaminated air, enjoy the pleasurable morning sun of blessed relaxation and lazy evenings among friends, and count the stars in the silent obscurity of night… and all that, accompanied by the indefatigable singing of roosters in that place of true rural rest


    15. He would be redeemed with the bosses, particularly when the fingerprint ID came in confirming his identity as a wanted murderer but undoubtedly, Edgar would be shuffled back to obscurity, listening to scum inform on scum, while being locked out of even those inglorious arrests


    16. “The obscurity of the theories of 20th-century physical science from the


    17. 8 And note a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar, on earth


    18. day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness


    19. These continued in obscurity used as pawns by the Chinese, Khitans, and Jurchens until they consolidated under Chingis in 1203


    20. I bowed my head and said a prayer that my girl had ended her days in such a dramatic way, and as the sirens started to sound in the distance, decided it was time to make my way to obscurity, as there was a pretty good chance they would reckon I had died in the flames too, and I had some insurance to claim and collect from the gang

    21. Tarazi concluded that considering the number of sources and their sheer obscurity


    22. Whereas Peter became a leader by stepping off his fishing boat and leaving a life of obscurity behind to follow and be trained by Jesus, Jesus Himself was born to lead


    23. If he had remained in Potiphar’s house, Joseph would undoubtedly have disappeared into obscurity, but Joseph remained faithful to his principles and to his God knowing that


    24. honored and have died in obscurity


    25. As I have said all along, I had no problem with keeping a low profile but the extent to which my father went was a monument to obscurity


    26. There were headlights in the distance, and I slowly drove down this caliginous path of obscurity


    27. “I feel a sense of duty to rescue these stories from obscurity,” Morrow said


    28. obscurity of things, and the weakness of the human


    29. Our remoteness and obscurity have hidden our name from their lips


    30. then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: (11) And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not

    31. Although obviously shocked by his unexpected appearance, she had a sickening smile on her face and was acting like a tramp in the veiled obscurity that surrounded her and her lover


    32. with the average individual, the distance from obscurity to fame and riches is so


    33. Anything I managed to focus on quickly lost its shape and burrowed its way soundlessly back into the surrounding obscurity


    34. The Father rather desires that you draw out your heart to the hungry, and that you minister to the afflicted souls; then shall your light shine in obscurity, and even your darkness shall be as the noonday


    35. She groped on in leafy obscurity, not able to see either above or below her; but presently she glimpsed blue sky, and a moment later came out in the clear, hot sunlight and saw the forest roof stretching away under her feet


    36. Persecution caused the followers of Asura to hide their temples with cunning art, and to veil their rituals in obscurity; and this secrecy, in turn, evoked more monstrous suspicions and tales of evil


    37. To create the illusion that some mysterious outsider had arrived on the island to murder Sir Richard, and then speedily left again, into dark obscurity, his foul deed 58


    38. She and Maria had time to kill or wound four more extremists, while Sergeant Kaker’s two machineguns shot down another eight Taliban, before the paraflare burned out, returning the area to obscurity


    39. The second paraflare then died out, returning the field of battle to obscurity


    40. The three news teams had to stay overnight in Bala Buluk, due to the onset of obscurity, but a promise by the district police chief to let them document the house to house search to be started the next morning convinced them to stay for another day

    41. The Department of Homeland Obscurity investigation described earlier talks about more wasted spending


    42. I have found that the references I read on the JFK assassination agree with each other nicely, and as a whole, present an enormous data base to bury the Warren Commission report forever into obscurity as a fallacious concoction of uncorrelated garbage, that lies, through omission and deceit, in the presentation of the assassination of John Kennedy


    43. The enemy fighters disappeared as soon as the flares burned out in the sky, returning the waters of the gulf to obscurity, save for the light from burning ships and barges


    44. � The gray-painted prototype emerged out of the hangar where it had been secretly built and into the obscurity of the early morning


    45. The 34 occupants of the yacht and the eleven fishermen aboard the trawler suddenly woke up in total obscurity to find themselves on quickly sinking ships


    46. Despite Myst's mainstream success, the increased popularity of action-based and real-time games led adventure games and simulation games, both mainstays of computer games in earlier decades, to begin to fade into obscurity


    47. Therein lay the open gateway to freedom and obscurity for four master criminals


    48. Delmage’s ticket to ride was a clear indication that once on Australian soil the surgeon would have faded into obscurity as musician Joseph Dewar and with his proceeds of the Clegg sting he would have been able to spread his wings, having the world as his oyster


    49. Oh God, where am I? What is this darkness all around? Obscurity was his answer


    50. describing how he was whisked from obscurity in Granada to








































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    Synonyms for "obscurity"

    abstruseness obscureness obscurity reconditeness cloud dimness vagueness

    "obscurity" definitions

    the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand


    an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known


    the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination