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

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.

Then it was rain, wind, obscureness of gloom, and lightning. 

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by London, Jack

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

As a starting-point for a reconsideration of focus and margin, we may take those experiences in which the distinction of clearness and obscureness is presented as an experienced fact.

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