Sentence examples for obscure incident from inspiring English sources
The film is based on an obscure incident in the Boer War, when three Australian soliders involved in an execution became scape-goats for the political interest of Britain and for an Australia adjusting to its Commonwealth image.
Most striking of these is the dramatic "Miracle of the Blessed Gonzalo d'Amarante," in which the painter shifts the scene of this obscure incident in the Portuguese holy man's life — his rescue of a party of monks from a collapsing bridge — to Venice's lagoon.
As many as 300 are believed to have died, though official secrecy continues to obscure the incident.
"Border-Free," with influences ranging from Rachmaninoff to Moroccan percussion, also nods to an obscure historical incident in which a band of Comanche Indians captured by Spanish soldiers in the 1700s were transported as prisoners to Cuba.
But a few hours spent with him there recently — during which he expounded on influences like Czech modernism, the 19th-century German writer Paul Scheerbart and various obscure historical incidents — demonstrated why this room, where he researches and draws, is more important to his work than his small glass foundry, also in Brooklyn.
Also, Isis cites isolated incidents described in sacred texts that (contrary to most Muslim clerics) it believes should be followed as rules to justify obscure punishments, including throwing gay people from high buildings.
Many of these stories focus on obscure figures and incidents in the Plains and Rockies, and are informed by American Indian culture and mystical wisdom.
Chinese security services blamed Etim, although the incident remains obscure.
But the Socialist MP René Dosière, who has campaigned on cutting Elysée spending, said it was regrettable that the hairdressing incident would obscure real spending cuts that had been made.
As they see it, the furor over this incident has obscured a broader truth.
