However, if we accept that a better way exists, and the only thing stopping us is a cultural veil that obscures our thinking, we may be able to lift it eventually.
This insistence upon a racial incompatibility between Northerners and Southerners was hardly some obscure line of thinking.
At the risk of offending Hazlitteans everywhere, it bears saying that his descriptive allusions, lengthy quotations, and rhetorical flourishes may in some cases obscure the solid thinking of the arguments.
The son of a geologist, Mr. Stinson spent memorable slices of his childhood driving to obscure sites and thinking about what was behind the land, what was forming it.
On the one hand, it makes sense that we stop calling these countries rogue states, because such blanket categorization can obscure our own thinking and thus our ability to adapt policy and respond to changes.
Thinking obscures the joy.
But this either-or way of thinking obscures the fact that talk therapy affects the brain and is no less biological than pills.
Beamed into Logan Hall via satellite was Dr Oktar Babuna, a spokesperson for Harun Yahya – founder of the controversial Turkish creationist movement that has often been accused of obscuring clear scientific thinking.
Muslim fundamentalists, he asserted, are not portraying science appropriately: "Snazzy websites, videos and books produced by fundamentalist Muslim 'creationists' such as those at www.harunyahya.com, are obscuring clear scientific thinking".
First, the emphasis that Lasker and her colleagues place on new and better ways of thinking obscures other forms of synergy that partnerships could produce, which may be as or more valuable.
