Former paramilitaries often mobilise political rhetoric to justify or obscure criminal intent.
The group has made clever interventions in the past – replacing the names of stars on Hollywood's Walk of Fame with the names of black men killed by police was a tightly bundled critique of the media and society's rabidly misplaced attentions – but here, intended satire gives way to blind hatred that obscures their intent.
He ends with a plea for his material not to be taken out of context, borne out of the fear that retold jokes can be framed in ways that obscure their comedic intent and bestow unwarranted motives on their creators.
Mr. Kroon (pronounced krone), a soft-spoken, bearded Alaska native, said he was convinced that the Bible is the Word of God, and that the task of believers is to ponder and analyze the book for meaning — including scrutiny, he said, for errors and mistranslations over the centuries that may have obscured the original intent.
But the zoo's director said there was no intent to obscure facts about the animals' deaths.
Mr. Carey played D.J. with an alchemist's intent, pouring obscure retro tunes into an aural wash of memory bliss.
Inexplicably (or not, it is British summertime), it rains every year, the sound is generally awful and there are always too few toilets and too many punters dressed as human Tumblrs, obscuring the view of whichever obscure band you were intent on seeing.
The big ideas have obscured the need for intent, desire, and the old-fashioned capacity to beat a man, as Arnautovic and Shaqiri frequently did, to the intense embarrassment of Ashley Young and Daley Blind: two men operating at full -back when they were patently not made for such a role.
Although blessed with a vast audience devoted and open-minded enough to follow him down ever-more obscure musical paths, he seemed intent on alienating them, regardless.
A dictionary buff, a devotee of obscure words, he had been intent on improving his companion's grammar and expanding his vocabulary ever since they had celled together at Kansas State Penitentiary.
