When he came back from 20 years of obscurity to make The Thin Red Line in 1998, so many name actors wanted to be associated with him that his massive cast capsized the movie, for which expectations had anyway been ratcheted far too high.
He came from relative obscurity to make his Olympics debut in 2008, and won both the 100m and 200m sprint.
In 1991, the then chancellor Helmut Kohl, eager to promote an eastern woman, picked her out of obscurity, to make her first minister for women, and then environment minister.
The essay on the sublime is also very good on the power of the incomplete and obscure: "To make any thing very terrible, obscurity seems in general to be necessary.
"It cannot act as the independent regulator you have created, enmeshed in a network of interlocking rules which require an analysis that would do credit to any rabbinical study of the Talmud … I am looking to remove complexity and obscurity in the rules, to make them effective, not to turn them upside-down".
The big mystery continues to hover in obscurity: how to get thin.
Mr DeVore never managed to emerge from obscurity and Mr Campbell largely resigned himself to making phone calls in the final week.In this section Money screams Comebacks and comeuppance Extension deficit disorder No end in sight No mo' po'?
She wanted to include pieces she loved by James Castle, a highly regarded, self-taught artist who died in 1977 after laboring in utter obscurity in Garden Valley, Idaho, making work that seemed to lie in some forgotten land between Rauschenberg and Warhol.
If someone wants to toil in obscurity, if that makes them happy, that's fine.
[C1.] Chinese Companies Work to Build Brand Awareness As China's brands languish in near obscurity, companies are moving to make their presence felt by adopting well- known names like Maytag.
