Sentence examples for obscure point from inspiring English sources

The paradox is that the vanishing point is discerned only as an obscure point, yet something is happening in that obscurity.

At some obscure point during this time, under Mr Knuckles's direction, disco evolved into house.

Far from being some abstruse, obscure point of theology, pidyon shvuyim is called in the Talmud a "mitzvah rabbah," a great commandment.

How and why had a 51-year-old businesswoman dedicated her time and money to an obscure point of constitutional law?

Often we'd agree with Bill Maher; just as often we had no idea why he was trying to make some obscure point.

Viewed as one of the game's top coaches, he had risen quickly from an obscure point guard at Division III Nazareth College in Rochester.

Scoring obscure points in a debate over outsourcing rarely helps in such decisions.

This year's Games has already had its fair share of protests and inquiries - some of which have enlightened the casual viewer as to the more obscure points and scoring rules in sports such as men's gymnastics.

We have become used to the fact that on occasion obscure points of human rights law can scupper what look like common sense procedures – deporting Islamist extremists for instance.

In closed enforcement proceedings, S.E.C. officials said, he could obsess over seemingly obscure points, driving an already overworked enforcement staff of the commission to deep distraction -- much of it, in the minds of some officials, unnecessary.

WHENEVER conflict flares between groups of people who are divided by theology (often rather obscure points of theology), commentators will say: "Of course, it's not really about religion the actual cause has to do with economics, or geopolitics, or just tribal identity... ......And the clever commentators have a point.