Sentence examples for obscure favorite from inspiring English sources

But also a fairly obscure favorite of his, Constantin Guys, whom he elevated to "the painter of modern life".

Though Mr. Bloch adored the obscure — favorite composers included Girolamo Diruta, from the 16th century, and Charles-Valentin Alkan, from the 19th — he did not neglect the famous.

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I'd brought along a few obscure favorites to play for Lemieux.

He is also a wine expert who has made sure that the pub offers obscure favorites, like a 2005 Kalleske Greenock from Australia's Barossa Valley (740 Hong Kong dollars, or about $97 at 7.6 Hong Kong dollars to the U.S. dollar).

And like all accomplished aesthetes, they're as proud of their obscure favorites as they are of their contrarian love of some mainstream blockbuster that accomplished aesthetes are supposed to loathe.

M Shanghai Bistro in Williamsburg offers hip-hop karaoke to amateur M.C.'s on Sundays, and at the Royal Oak a few blocks away, 20 to 30 regulars gather each Monday to sing obscure favorites in the candlelit back room of the bar.

While standard radio play and popular consciousness constantly focus on the hits — the "Kind of Blues," the "Mood Indigos," the "Purple Rains" (it seems there is a particular corner of the color wheel reserved for musical genius) — obsessive and completist fans search out the bootlegs, loudly proclaiming their obscure favorites to be equal, if not superior, to the more famous albums.

Nevertheless, Lincoln acquitted himself so well — the speech became famous for his declaration, "Right makes might" — that it transformed "its author from a relatively obscure Illinois favorite son into a viable national contender for his party's presidential nomination," Mr. Holzer wrote.

Mad Max (1979) was an international hit – except in America where it became an obscure cult favorite, ignored by critics and available for years only in a dubbed version though it earned over $100M internationally.

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