Sentence examples for based on obscure from inspiring English sources

His video and photographic installations are often based on obscure moments in the history of ideas.

In 2013, New Directions published "Two American Scenes," a poetry pamphlet, for which each writer contributed a piece based on obscure nineteenth-century American texts.

The most common problems were related to: lack of information regarding the sample size or the universe, small sample sizes and selection of specialists based on obscure criteria.

Instead, mortgage rates have been going up. –Months ago Washington could have reviewed or suspended the mark-to-market accounting procedures that were sapping equity capital from the banking industry and were based on obscure, little-understood derivatives markets and auditors' fears of trial lawyers.

Popke speculated that if Moore created more albums based on obscure films, "he might just alter the face of the genre".

But as we saw, a number of fairly earnest candidates with decent political bona fides -- Buddy Roemer, Fred Karger, and, after a few brief appearances, Gary Johnson -- were simply excluded based on obscure, non-standardized "rules" involving poll results that seemed to change on a debate-by-debate basis.

And it makes you realize just how much contemporary fashion is based on obscuring the lack of invention or thought with gimmicks and cheap revivalism.

They don't work when you invent a new one, based on an obscure ad from 1970s England.

Isn't Cranberry an odd name for a company with one product -- a comedy about a murder in a beauty parlor based on an obscure German play?

"The Prayer of Jabez" (Multnomah Publishers) by Bruce Wilkinson, based on an obscure prayer by an Old Testament figure, sold some eight million copies.

His opera is based on an obscure true-crime story and features a talented but unstarry cast.