Sentence examples for obscure learning from inspiring English sources

Some of the female jury rose to the challenge of this bravura grandstand of intellectualism, which eschews plot and character to revel in the sheer delight of languages and obscure learning (Greek, Eskimo and Japanese all put in appearances).

That period of disunity, from the early 3rd to the late 6th century, marked the decline of Confucianism, the upsurge of xuanxue ("Obscure Learning"; sometimes called neo-Daoism), and the spread of Buddhism.

WG Sebald's The Rings of Saturn (1998) showed that if you had a distinctive literary voice you could hold together personal memory, minute observation and obscure learning in the form of a journey through a landscape that to ordinary eyes seemed humdrum.

In interviews Ms. Meade has said that she eagerly accepts invitations to learn obscure roles if the music is interesting, even for a single performance.

Yet the feel-good facade and closing fireworks could never entirely obscure what was learned this week about steroid cocktails and the Disappearing Positive Methodology.

But hunters of more obscure gems also learn about Larry Woiwode's 1975 novel "Beyond the Bedroom Wall" (the Book Review called it "beautiful and moving") and "Paco's Story," by Larry Heinemann, a National Book Award winner in 1987.

What the acquired-innate dichotomy obscured is that learning is possible only after the animal has already been steered by its genes to develop its behaviour in a certain way.

The sensation over Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin and his extraordinary play, seemingly out of nowhere, obscures the usual learning curve for first-time starting point guards in the N.B.A.

They remove their shoes for class, learn obscure handshakes and wear patented colored sashes in dozens of different variations that signify rank in the organization.

Do you not have lives to live, passions to explore, friends to be hanging out with? Do you really not have anything better to do than learn obscure sporting facts and rub my feet and then my dick?

I suppose a case could be made that learning the obscure language of an isolated population is indeed not "universally" worthwhile.