obscurity
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Live a calmer lifestyle, gel in obscurity, develop an edge, show up in January and make everyone east of the Mississippi look like clowns again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Homer-Haunted” deals with great names—including Chapman, Pope and John Keats—as well as a few that have fallen into obscurity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"Their success revived interest in Lawrence's dramatic work and helped spark a renaissance of his plays in London theatre circles after decades of relative obscurity following his death in 1930," the agency said.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Orlando Gill continued his remarkable journey from obscurity as he became Paraguay's penalty shootout hero against Germany on Monday.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
In the shower’s obscurity, all I could see was a black shadow and gleaming white teeth.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
The rise in popularity of revival screenings, which find audiences packing theaters in Los Angeles and around the world for acknowledged classics and rediscovered obscurities, has brought a joyful energy back to theaters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
They scour the internet to confirm obscurities, contact competition officials and high-school counselors and use a video-interview program to suss out students’ research claims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
"It was a great song, and as a fan of 60s and 70s obscurities I knew it was unknown."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
Still, with its out-of-print obscurities and several unreleased live recordings, the compilation reaffirms just how unusual the music that Grubbs and O’Rourke made during their five-year run still is.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2024
He checked her chemistry work and cleared up obscurities in the Restoration plays.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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"The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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