Today, it has oozed out of "alt-right" websites or obscure Reddit threads to land in the Twitter feeds of tens of millions of people.
Or the snow falling slowly, each flake descending patiently, individually, as if abseiling down some obscure silky thread?
Ms. Amer has reproduced definitions of the word fear in English, French and Arabic, a nod to her experience in all three cultures; the text is partly obscured by hanging threads.
In other recent works, like "Heather's Degrade" (2006), Ms. Amer seems to have hit a plateau: pornographic images of women stitched onto paint-washed canvas, overlapped and obscured by loose threads so as to place erotic titillation just out of reach.
The toilet in the trailer backed up, rats gnawed on walls, and every morning the rich, famous and obscure jogged past, threading along trails in the heat.
Flower: calyx 6--11 mm, ciliate, nonglandular, membrane obscure; corolla salverform, tube 12--32 12--32 12--32ke, +- red, throat yellow, lobes generally < 4 mm, obovate, rounded or truncate, pink, white, or pale yellow; stamens exserted; stigmas <= 1(3) mm.
Fruit: linear to oblong, cylindric to club-shaped, +- compressed side-to-side, bristly to glabrous; base obtuse or long-tapered into tail, tip tapered into beak or obtuse; ribs thread-like; oil tubes obscure; fruit axis divided in distal 1/2.
Viewer interest began to fade, however, as plot threads became more and more obscure and the show failed to move toward a traditional resolution of its myriad mysteries, foremost among them the identity of Laura's killer.
Narrative threads seem to be snipped off at obscure junctions; nothing is baldly stated.
Forssmann was reading an obscure medical journal when he noticed an article depicting a horse in which researchers had threaded a long tube up its leg all the way into its heart.
