obscureness

Example Sentences

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And while his aesthetic seems like ingratiating wholesome Americana, there’s an avant-garde obscureness underneath it.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021

As Buck slid along with the obscureness of a gliding shadow, his nose was jerked suddenly to the side as though a positive force had gripped and pulled it.

From The Call of the Wild by London, Jack

A sensation as such—if we are bound to speak of sensations—can by no possibility be an obscure sensation, for the trait that we call obscureness or vagueness constitutes the intrinsic being of that sensation.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

But, secondly, this distinction of focus and margin cannot be drawn on the basis of the experienced contrast between clearness and obscureness.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

Whether a natural obscureness, hiding That region in perpetual cloud, Or our own want of effort, be the bar. ant.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew