Sentence examples for obscure principles from inspiring English sources

In 1917 the two artists met in Ferrara, Italy, where, together with de Chirico's younger brother a poet, musician, and painter known as Alberto Savinio they formulated the rather obscure principles of the scuola metafisica ("Metaphysical school").

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

The British authorities are said to be using an "obscure" legal principle to throw out the case, arguing that the Kenyan government is now responsible for what took place when Kenya was a British colony.

The risk, though, is that an argument about timing obscures the principle at the heart of the proposals.

First, students were confronted with the fact that biochemical schematics often obscure underlying chemical principles.

WASHINGTON — When Samantha Power, President Obama's nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations, faced senators at her confirmation hearing last week, the first question from Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, the ranking Republican, was how she defined an idealistic, if somewhat obscure, foreign policy principle known as "responsibility to protect".

Barring one clear jewel - Francisca (1981) - and a strong, Tempest-like late statement on mortality (2001's I'm Going Home, starring Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich), much of his output seems either willfully obscure (The Uncertainty Principle, The Letter), dull (A Talking Picture, A Caixa) or just stagey, over-literal and awkward (er, most of the rest).

An obscure point of principle about whether to set up a commission of inquiry into a Communist newspaper owner.

We can afford to play fast and loose with medal hopes on obscure bureaucratic points of principle.

There are to be no "noble lies" or false ideologies obscuring a society's principles of justice.

The extraordinary setting of this case has obscured the ordinary principle that dictates its proper resolution: Federal courts defer to state high courts' interpretations of their state's own law.