The individual projects, some lasting three to four years, involve hundreds of hours of recording speech, developing grammars and preparing children's readers in the obscure language.
In occasional speeches and frequent e-mails to the staff, he was facile, fond of obscure words and alliteration.
"The audio that automatically starts playing completely obscures the speech of the screen reader.
Incorporating obscure, complicated words and phrases into your speech will make you seem wiser and, therefore, older, depending on where you live.
The third truth is that gimmicky speeches obscure the president's best character and make it seem as if he doesn't understand the scope of the calamity looming in front of us.
Mr. Bush, Ms. Rice and Mr. Powell all insist that the political furor over one line in Mr. Bush's speech obscures what they say is a larger truth: that Mr. Hussein was trying to reconstitute his nuclear program, and had sought to obtain key components for it around the world.
Although there is no shortage of speculation on the issue, the origins of human speech remain obscure at present.
Confession is "one of the most complex and obscure forms of human speech and behavior," Professor Brooks writes, in part because it serves a dual role, leading simultaneously to punishment and absolution, discipline and redemption.
The archive Willgoose uses on the new album ranges from the relatively obvious, such as Kennedy's 1962 "We choose to go to the Moon" speech, to obscure 1965 Soviet footage of the first spacewalk.
I am often asked where the trend towards quarantining free speech to obscure areas began.
