Sentence examples for make obscure from inspiring English sources

These passages are, by modern critical standards, "showy" and "digressive," nervously intent to display stray learning and to make obscure allusion more powerful than inherent emotion.

The nerds hang in the computer room during break time and make obscure jokes; the jocks run around hitting things and trying to chat up girls.

Lowenstein is one of the nation's most talented business writers, with a particular ability to make obscure financial issues clear as the morning light.

On one level, that means they may have an easier time with the language — telling the story of their food, or knowing how to make obscure dishes sound sexy in menu descriptions.

In the parody, which was featured in last week's issue under the title "Proverbs According to Dennis Miller," Mr. Carson made fun of Mr. Miller's propensity to make obscure, though seemingly intelligent, references during the course of the games.

For us, it's not enough to make obscure references comparing one band to another; we're more interested in chronicling the experiential aspects of the music that moves and grips us.

Arts prizes clearly have a function beyond making obscure artists more visible and a little less poor.

But that very centrality makes obscure the role of religious faith as such in the struggle for racial justice.

Her prime pieces of evidence are the generations-old small family bakeries making obscure fortune cookie-shaped crackers by hand near a temple outside Kyoto.

It was the early 1970s in Los Angeles, a time when any number of people could be found wandering around in white robes making obscure prophecies.

It was followed by Walking on Glass (1985), composed of three separate narratives whose connections are deliberately made obscure until near the end of the novel.