Sentence examples for obscure secret from inspiring English sources

That is why it fails: It doesn't reflect the social dynamics in the context of which people already communicate, and the rules themselves are obscure — secret, even.

Most of his war work in military deception remained an obscure secret until the end of the 20th century and the publication of Michael Howard's 1990 official history, Strategic Deception in the Second World War.

Though detaching the Arabic letters from their script may initially strike some as Westernizing an Eastern alphabet, Mirsaal also notably "orientalizes the West": Rjeily plays with the weights and shapes of Latin letters to unveil a few obscure secrets of our alphabet as well, such as how the ampersand was developed.

(Oh, come on. GoldenEye 007, remember?) But theories surrounding the game's more obscure secrets hover in the air like a neon comedy fart.

Kate Stanley is a lapsed Shakespeare professor (her specialty was the occult — as in "hidden, obscured, secret" — in his plays) turned stage director, pulled into the chase by her former mentor, Rosalind Howard, a "flamboyantly eccentric" scholar who ends up dead early on.

The advantage of steganography over cryptography is that it keeps the presence of data obscure and secret.

The administration also did everything it could to block unwanted disclosures about its policies, routinely invoking the formerly obscure "state-secrets privilege" to avoid revealing details of its treatment of enemy combatants.

Don't burden me.'" And he says there is no obscure or magical secret to his talent.

Quite what the British authorities have gained in return remains as obscure as the secrets the authorities are seeking to protect.

Joseph Vehling, a chef who translated Apicius in the 1930s, reckoned the author had been deliberately obscure, lest his secrets leak out.A more likely reason is that Apicius's recipes were written by and for professional cooks, who could decipher their shorthand.

These assessments, however, rely on incomplete data and information from TSCA inventory updates, much of which is obscured by trade secret claims and a lack of transparent assessment methods (Denison 2008).