Sentence examples for obscure setting from inspiring English sources

And the pretty obscure setting is 16th-century Central America on the very eve of the Spanish Conquistadors' arrival to raze a culture to the ground and superimpose their own on its ruins.

He was, he later wryly observed, somewhat caught up in an idea of himself as Jude the Obscure, setting out making overwrought Madonnas and, after the fashion of the time, moving into abstraction.

And it's still teaching users how to snatch their Gmail contacts' email addresses while only letting you export the names of your friends — unless they opt-in through an obscure setting, because it considers contact info they've shared as their data, not yours.

The anti-Kennedy excesses of Texas conservatives were real enough, but the president's assassin acted on a far more obscure set of motivations.

The machine attaches to a car's 12-volt car power source, and its ruggedness suggests that it meets some obscure set of NATO field specs; its thick, fabric wrapped cord recalls my mother's Eisenhower-era waffle iron.

The encyclopedia (I cherished an obscure set much older than I was, palmed off by a neighbor) also contained the whole world, but its 18 fortresslike volumes were governed by a stringent set of laws.

That sense of gathering, competing and disputing, of disorder lightly contained in obscure sets of habits and rules, belongs in pubs, and drains away from a community once they have gone.Their loss is also the disappearance of a kitchen, or a sitting room, or some comfortable dim place where there is warmth and a welcome, and no questions asked, all over Britain.

This fairly obscure set of rules enables an uncontested contract to be issued to a company to be run by the NHS or council – but in practice for the company to operate at "arms length" from the public body which spawned it.

When Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy in 2009 with Fiat SpA holding the keys he bypassed next-in-line bosses in favor of an obscure set of promising young turks to help him lead the turnaround.

This recent burst of global attention around Dansaekwha artists amounts to a widespread "rediscovery" of a previously somewhat obscure set of octogenarian painters.

Backlit by a remarkably massive disco ball, with his curly mop flowing in the breeze Jamie rinsed a relatively obscure set, choosing to include some disco-laced vinyl, and only briefly segwaying into sections of his popular album tracks like "Gosh" and "Seesaw".