Sentence examples for knows obscure from inspiring English sources

Of course, Bond has as many prototypes as Elvis has lookalikes, and in any case Harling appears more recognisably in The Spy Who Loved Me as the knowledgable printer who knows obscure typefaces.

He knows obscure facts about a wide variety of subjects because those facts are related to events that were meaningful in his life.

I woke up one night convinced that the Brontë sisters would come up (they didn't, of course) and made sure I knew obscure facts about them.

The two homicide cops who worked the crime scenes knew obscure, significant things about city life; the show's writers knew things about city life, and they conveyed this knowledge to us obliquely.

Apart from being astounded that people who are so small that they need to stand on boxes to reach the podium know obscure answers to questions about spider mimicry or Russian ballet, and can do mental arithmetic within seconds, it was a fascinating glimpse into the families who raise gifted children, and what it takes to get them into a competition such as this.

Not yet out of his 30's, Mr. Charlap knows more obscure songs of Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, the movies and the great jazz composers than a lot of great musicians twice his age, and he can be a pretty extraordinary pianist.

"Seth knows more obscure songs than anyone I've ever worked with.

At the time, it was very cool to know about obscure music.

It's crazy to expect a chap to know about obscure events he didn't sentiently live through.

The obit page, after all, is a collection of stories, of people's lives, some well known, some obscure.

Rarely have Lincoln's speeches and writings, both well known and obscure, been subjected to such painstaking analysis.