Prince Philip joined the pantheon for reasons now obscure.
J.J.'s connection with The New York Times is that, for reasons now obscure to the higher management that made the decision, he was invited into the newspaper's offices to torture the editorial staff.
The political and the spiritual drama of that moment is now obscure for a couple of reasons.
For reasons that are now obscure, there is an unwritten rule that commission presidents must be drawn from the ranks of past or current prime ministers.
It's dark when I finally arrive at Tracy Mackness's farm – for reasons which are now obscure, I have decided to go urban pig hunting at 9.30 at night – having negotiated my way off a dual carriageway, on to the estate, through a gap between the houses and down a bumpy lane to a piece of land not much bigger than the plot for an average suburban house and garden.
Other coming stars are both younger and, for now, relatively obscure.
The motive was romance: Mozart wrote the piece for Josepha Freysinger, the musically gifted daughter of a composer who is now obscure.
It cites over 30 names, many now obscure.
For now, a fence obscures the park's neglected grounds from view.
From midway across the bridge, gazing out at Wallabout Bay, near Corlears Hook — a jut of land once infamous for its streetwalkers, now obscured by shoreline landfill — you can feel something like expansiveness, a sense of air and space.
I think the story is worthy of telling, but the path into it, at least for now, is obscured.
