In drawing on all these disparate elements and incorporating them into its narcissistic arrangement — in shoring these fragments against his ruins — Shields manages to thoroughly obscure himself.
In the video, he obscures himself: male and female models lip-synch his vocals, and the leather jacket from the "Faith" video is set on fire.
He is cognizant of the complications of being a white British guy singing dancehall, a situation he tiptoes nimbly around by obscuring himself, slipping in and out of a light patois, using Auto-Tune, and varying his phrasing until the meaning of the words begins to drift into oblivion.
Instead, he emerges from the conclave as an arch conservative (his choice of the name Pius XIII places him in a lineage of extreme orthodoxy), a Pope who not only refuses to be photographed but also obscures himself completely from his public.
Chants of "down with the military regime," intermittently pierced the thick walls of the cage, with Morsi himself obscured from view in a separate chamber.
The opposition collected the signatures against the legislators three weeks ago, in an effort obscured by a drive to recall Mr. Chávez himself.
His identity was still a closely guarded secret at the time, so his face was obscured with an illustrated demon drawn by the artist himself.
In the sequence where Bart imagines himself testifying in court, his face is obscured with a blue dot; this is a references to the television coverage of the rape trial of William Kennedy Smith, in which the woman who accused Smith of raping her was obscured with a blue dot over her face.
For admirable, there are glimpses of Maxwell himself, seen plain at times, and at times obscured in a Shelleyan storm cloud of feeling.
