The obscurity was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of night.
Alan Carlin, a 72-year-old analyst and economist, had labored in obscurity in a little-known office at the Environmental Protection Agency since the Nixon administration.
The concept "security through obscurity" is well known—and well derided—because doing things in an obscure way, hoping that no one will get wise to your method, is just asking for problems.
The song remained in obscurity for two years.
"Being plucked from obscurity is a bit like, you know, going on a long journey," Boyle said.
Two score and twelve were told off. From the farmer-general of seventy, whose riches could not buy his life, to the seamstress of twenty, whose poverty and obscurity could not save her.
rise from obscurity to fame
Researchers from Manhattan to Mumbai will gain instant access to volumes that would otherwise languish in obscurity.
Unsuccessful, even for the price of a drink, he ended up selling it to the owner of a market stall who tucked it away with other second-hand items where it faded, slowly, into obscurity.
Since I am myself poor and obscure, I can offer you but a service of poverty and obscurity.
the obscurity of one's birth
In the ensuing chaotic decades, the indigenous population ebbed and the island faded into obscurity, until it was annexed by Chile in 1888.
Hidden away in some quiet streets of the capital are once-famous names tipped as future leaders. They now live in obscurity.
It was a windowless erection used for storage, and from the open door there floated into the obscurity a mist of yellow radiance, which at first Tess thought to be illuminated smoke.
Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger.
Parallel-programming languages in particular tend to languish in academic obscurity.
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