Sentence examples for obscure distinctions from inspiring English sources

But if you write as if it were true, it will force you to explain any technical terms, to illustrate strange or obscure distinctions, and to be as explicit as possible when you summarize what some other philosopher said.

It meant that the programs were full of British slang (peckish, smarmy, berk, git, pouf, and so on) and references to peculiarly British cultural stereotypes and artifacts (obscure distinctions of class and region as expressed in different accents, Oxbridge dons, blancmanges, pantomime horses, chartered accountants, holiday-makers, laundrettes, council houses, and so on).

The universal reprieve of Yom Kippur, and the ancient account of how, on the fifteenth of Av, the maidens of Jerusalem, ready to find their mates, would go singing and dancing into the fields, wearing white garments they had borrowed from one another to obscure distinctions of wealth and privilege, indicate an essential equality in the sacred joy that comes of constituting community together.

Collapsing different forms of nonsecure attachment into a single measure may obscure distinctions among dimensions of attachment.

Before 9/11, to be a sort-of-specialist in Afghanistan and Pakistan was a pretty obscure distinction.

He is the first openly gay elected official to represent Jackson Heights, Queens, a neighborhood known for its diversity of people and cuisines that enjoys a more obscure distinction as a haven for gay men and lesbians.

In putting forward this theory, the actualist takes herself to be replacing an obscure distinction between two modes of being — possible existence and actual existence — with an intelligible distinction.

This once-obscure distinction between information services and telecommunications services, and the resultant division of duties, is at the heart of the conflict today.

This once-obscure distinction between information services and telecommunications services, and the resultant division of duties, is at the heart of the conflict today — although, as we'll see, that conflict has grown large enough to serve as a proxy battle in the broader war of partisan politics.

4: Evaluate whether totals and averages obscure relevant distinctions and trade-offs.

I tend not to say that Jews, Christians, and Muslims worship the same God because I think it can obscure important distinctions between faiths.