Sentence examples for be only obvious from inspiring English sources

About one of Shakespeare's sonnets, the young F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "The irony of it is that if he had cared more for the poem than for the lady the sonnet would be only obvious, imitative rhetoric and no one would ever have read it after 20 years".

It's only obvious, isn't it?

But this point was only obvious in retrospect.

Unfortunately, that better way is only obvious once I have finished.

They taste and smell things in wine that are only obvious to others once they have been told about them.

The "error" of holding interest rates too low for too long was only obvious after the fact, not before.

But that's only obvious if you are willing to say the sun is rising when Apple says it is not.

Think iPhone 4 to iPhone 4S: this device so resembles the iPad 2 that differences are only obvious when they're placed next to each other.

This suggests a cooperative effect between the lack of Ink4 and Cip/Kip inhibitors that is only obvious after a few cell divisions in the neural progenitors.

The former prime minister claimed that the terrible aftermath was only obvious in hindsight, yet Christian Aid warned of "significant chaos and suffering in Iraq long after military strikes have ended".

It is only obvious when his shirt is off – the right side of his chest is noticeably sunken, compared to the left – and he does admit to having suffered from body consciousness.