The novels that attract me most. . . are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.
Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own. . . INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.
I had been digging so much for my show, Minimal Wave - constantly finding fresh old material to play every week - that I ended up discovering all these obscure bands that no one had really heard here. It was very exciting to be able to play their records on the air for a new audience and be able to get instant feedback.
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say I want to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.
At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)
Faith is obscure. By faith a man moves through darkness; but he moves securely, his hand in the hand of God. He is literally seeing through the eyes of God.
We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.
When the situation is obscure, attack
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?
We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.
Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.
Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!