If the pre-Olympic favorites, like Lindsey Vonn, fail to win as many medals as the hype apparatus expects them to, the broadcasters, almost spitefully, consign the sport to deeper obscurity.
Unlike some of his fellow expatriates, though -- in particular Mr. Hughes, whose book "The Fatal Shore" is the subject of one of the best pieces in "As of This Writing" -- Mr. James avoided the further expatriation (and the potential for brighter glory or deeper obscurity) of migration to America.
Elliot A. Caplin, a writer who worked in deep obscurity to produce the plot lines for scores of cartoon strips, died on Sunday at his home in Stockbridge, Mass.
As I noted, Mr. Vandecker worked in deep obscurity for many decades, hindered by a public that didn't yet understand his work and which believed him to be fictional.
As he stumbled about the country in deep obscurity during the summer of 1991, I asked why it took a good ten minutes for him to get rolling when he gave a speech.
As he stumbled about the country in deep obscurity during the summer of 1991, I asked why it took a good ten minutes for him to get rolling when he gave a speech..
It says something of the deep obscurity into which the Norwegian painter Nikolai Astrup fell – after his death in 1928 aged 47 – that neither the Dulwich Picture Gallery director, Ian Dejardin, nor the art historian MaryAnne Stevens had heard of him until a few years ago.
But the play of nocturnal brilliance and deep obscurity - the woman's cap picked out by moonbeams, the child's right shoulder angled in the darkness as if holding fast to some object tucked under her arm - cannot help but draw from us waves of pathos and anxiety.
Finally, a level deeper into obscurity, late-70s games maker Leo Christopherson, who made his name on a computer called the TRS-80, has just remade his classic Android Nim for PC and Mac.
That there are deep obscurities in this program e.g., whether it is a matter of analyzing concepts or getting down to the simplest elements of things is less important in the present context than that analysis and synthesis were thus taken to be complementary.
"Inconspicuousness begins as self-protection but soon extends to self-reliance and a deeper appreciation of who we are and where we belong". What Edmund Burke called "judicious obscurity" can be empowering.
