Sentence examples for greater obscurity from inspiring English sources

The frenzy prefigured the one that would surround Palin 24 years later, when she was plucked from even greater obscurity by John McCain.

More importantly, while the World Cup boasts famous and well-paid footballers, the bulk of Olympic athletes toil for years beyond the media spotlight at sports of even greater obscurity.

For the moment, the mall finds itself shrouded in greater obscurity than ever, as construction scaffolding hides shop facades and plywood covers sidewalks while work goes on to retool its overall look.

Now it seems oddly fixated on ever greater obscurities by other German-born composers of the 18th century.

Or as Mr. McBurney put it, "There's a great fear of obscurity and misunderstanding".

This is an acrobat rather than a dancer, plunged in semi-obscurity for greater effect.

"I had come, quite quickly, from obscurity to great success," he said.

Donald McRae is to be congratulated on helping rescue a heroic figure from obscurity (The great defender, G2, 11 June).

He lavished an education as fine as any boy's on Margaret, who was reciting in Latin by the age of 6 and who, under a "torrent of criticism," mastered her father's greatest lesson: "Mediocrity is obscurity".

Ries argues that an entrepreneur's greatest advantage is their obscurity.

The post-sale clean, as we say in the trade, was a dream and I sold it to a hedge-fund manager who has now placed the work on long-term loan with the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, where she sits among the greats, a lost and now recovered work by one of Europe's greatest image makers, summoned from obscurity with the aid of digital photography.