Sentence examples for obscure reality from inspiring English sources

The sin of pro forma numbers was that companies used them to obscure reality.

In a world motivated by cash over caring, warnings of prudence for fear of fiscal oblivion obscure reality.

No, there is no superstate in Brussels, no pedantic grocer who measures cucumbers and lives on arcane and exacting acronyms that obscure reality.

I'm curious because this past summer, it looks like your critics passed over some quality television in favor of the most deplorable and obscure reality shows you could fine.

But it also allows the discussants to exploit divergent meanings to obscure reality... often not deliberately, to be sure, but no less effectively for that.Such exploitation of ambiguity is often dangerous to those who attempt it.

Anecdotes are the currency of our trade, an escape from the dry number-crunching of social science, and yet there's always the danger that they can do more to obscure reality than to capture a real trend.

Art can enliven or obscure realities; professional arrangements with police can do the same.

In a recent Wall Street Journal piece on conservatives and historical mania, Thomas Frank stated, Our ideal image of the past obscures reality, and our desire to understand patriotism as an act of daring — subject to persecution, even — easily overwhelms the fact of anodyne, patriotic textbooks.

Otherwise, most augmented reality interrupts and obscures reality instead of adding meaningful value to it.

Filmmakers can, of course, make a film about any aspect of their subjects' lives they choose, but to elevate Tracy while leaving out Harding and Wilbourne (and Scotty Bowers), the filmmakers risk obscuring reality and perpetuating the closet, which seems very much against the zeitgeist of 2014, where a young actress like Ellen Page can stand up and speak her truth.

The election of Pauline Hanson shouldn't obscure the reality that Senate voting reform has largely achieved its purpose.