Sentence examples for in total obscurity from inspiring English sources
Because they had played only in total obscurity, they figured no one would notice their unusual pairing.
People sometimes saw her walking along the beach, dressed in white, and she died in her 50s, in total obscurity.
He spent 20 years in total obscurity, and then, all of a sudden, he was getting huge stacks of fan mail from Iranians who risked 100 lashes by making videos of his show.
He remained there for the rest of his life, with the flow of poems and letters gradually dwindling, and lived in total obscurity until his death, from a stroke, in 1864, at the age of seventy.
Working on math alone and in total obscurity ever since he received his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1991, Zhang had solved a problem in number theory known as the twin primes conjecture, which had confounded leading experts for millennia.
Shapinsky was a young man when he began painting abstract expressionist-based works in total obscurity, which he continued refining every day for over thirty years before he was noticed by accident.
Always of a retiring disposition, he fell into total obscurity with the outbreak of World War II.
Much less $13,000 on a childlike drawing of a cat by Bill Traylor, a self-taught artist who was born into slavery and died in 1943, and worked in almost total obscurity.
In the far south, Sicily remained administratively separate from Ravenna, as did Sardinia, which followed its own path under increasingly independent "judges" in almost total obscurity until the Pisan and Genoese invasions of the 11th and 12th centuries.
The OPCW brings together 185 nations working in near total obscurity toward an April 29 , 2012 deadline for the final elimination of the scourge that has brought death and agony from the fields of Flanders in World War I to the Tokyo subway in 1995.
