The big challenge will be continuing to build a program that Schiano lifted from obscurity over his 11 seasons.
Susan Birkenhead, who wrote the lyrics to "Jelly's Last Jam" and who had been lifted from obscurity by Styne to collaborate on "Treasure Island" in the early '80s, said, "Rather than potchky with the lyric, he'd rip it up and start again.
Other books have been lifted from obscurity to world wide literary grandeur like Stendhal's The Red and the Black, which barely sold a few dozen copies when first published.
Only in the late 1970s did Parks's obscurity lift with her recognition as a national figure of historical import.
They lifted me from obscurity and celebrated me, setting off a chain of events that changed my life forever".
That is, Western activists lifted them from obscurity and saw them as heroes in a very complicated conflict, before they had much chance to learn organizational skills.
Mr. Kadyrov's career has been sponsored by Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who as president lifted him from obscurity with unwavering Kremlin support.
And the five-year-old Dahesh Museum is trying mightily to live up to its name by lifting itself from obscurity.
But his significance, at least in the eyes of those who periodically lift him from obscurity, is due not only to his actual work — which is graceful, conservative, and lastingly attractive — but also to the fact that he was black.
But they were following a path set by the earlier club teams that Mr. Johnson is determined to lift out of obscurity, among them the Smart Set in Brooklyn and the Alpha Physical Culture Club in Harlem.
The Republican presidential nominee has in recent weeks lifted Nehlen from obscurity by praising him on Twitter and vacillated dramatically before endorsing Ryan in muted remarks Friday at a rally in Green Bay, Wis.
