The complexity of thalidomide and the obscurity of limb formation left scientists stymied.
Only in his speeches does he sometimes fall short of the lucidity of the narrative prose; his fondness for abstract expressions and the obscurity of his rhetorical antithesis often make the passages difficult to understand.
After the Flavians, the newness of a man's senatorial dignity and the obscurity of his ultimate origin, whether it was Italian or otherwise, no longer forbade his possible elevation.
The ease with which DeLuna was prosecuted and the obscurity of his death are what makes his case so important, said Liebman.
The consequence of this shibboleth was that the jargon and the obscurity of theory created a profound disconnect with the working class and non-academics became marginal to revolutionary ideas.
In our patients, the median time from onset of symptoms to diagnosis was 12 months, which reflects both the intermittent, episodic nature of the symptoms and the obscurity of the diagnosis.
Poor surveillance of rabies-related viruses and poor diagnostic capability in most of Africa are large contributors to our lack of information and the obscurity of the African lyssaviruses.
Subscribers to the New Yorker visiting Paris for the first time would have felt safely guided through the obscurities of Montparnasse and Montmartre by the glow of Flanner's prose.
Safe and invisible in the obscurity of every street corner will be an old enemy, and from every street corner will cone the mocking voice of a tormentor, "Well, well!
His poetry rich in allusions, unattributed quotations and revelling in the obscurity of words requires multiple dictionaries to hand, leading it to being far more studied than read.Born in Worcestershire in 1932, the son of a police constable, Mr Hill is considered by many to be one of Britain's greatest living poets.
