Some folders are at risk of fading into obscurity.
The Riviera was that quintessential cantina, a bit down-at-heel, fading into obscurity.
The online used bookseller AbeBooks has compiled a list of Pulitzer winners now "fading into obscurity".
I'm also ignoring scores of obvious people, like Sarah Palin, who show no signs of fading into obscurity.
Instead of fading into obscurity like so many other urban dance crazes (remember the Worm?), it evolved, thanks in part to YouTube videos.
Why risk fading into obscurity and beckoning forth the debt-collectors, when you can go out with a stylish bang and break up your practice instead, boy-band style?
Two years ago, a distant star with the prosaic name V838 Monocerotis flared like a flashbulb to become the brightest star in the Milky Way before fading into obscurity again.
So the worst punishment the Alabama court of judiciary – a court for judges – could inflict on him would be to allow him to serve out his term, fading into obscurity as neither martyr nor decision-maker.
Sometimes they're just unfinished because the artist has been dropped or fallen out with their label and just decided to dump them online as a final middle finger salute before fading into obscurity.
Crime fiction is one of the most popular genres around, and it's far from fading into obscurity; crime novels regularly top the bestseller lists and are adapted into films, and TV is rife with crime dramas.
Your body might quit working, but there will always be that road for kids to ask their exasperated parents, "who's Billy Joel?" The more roads, bridges, burn units, sports arenas, museums and vape shops with our names on them, the greater chance we have of not fading into obscurity.
