Nothing was obscured, reality burned and burned".
Only later does it occur to them that the message the girls were sending might not have needed decoding, that all their conspiracy theories and painstaking efforts to crack the supposed code only obscured reality.
But sometimes they offered a romantic image that obscured reality, and "The American West" attempts to counterbalance that with works depicting the less savory aspects of the West's settlement, like N. C. Wyeth's "Gunfight".
The deaths of two soldiers, and the hospitalization of another, while apparently engaged in the selection course for Special Forces reserves in the rugged Brecon Beacons, brings home an oft-obscured reality.
The other big surprise of the night was Sylvester Stallone's not winning best supporting actor, though, looking back, his campaign narrative — "what a comeback!" — obscured stark realities.
But over the past two weeks the political battles over government debt in Washington and Frankfurt, the street battles in Britain, and the volatility of markets everywhere have obscured that reality.
The pyramidal structure of society suggested by the statistics given above is somewhat obscured by the reality and prominence of the urban scene.
Once you know the truth, it becomes hard to look at the photograph, perhaps because the truth is so obscured by the horrific realities of the time.
In practice, however, those financial realities are often obscured, as consultants market the business opportunities online and in presentations.
Karmen MacKendrick makes Christian dogma accountable to those aspects of human life it too often obscured or evaded: the fundamental realities of time, embodiment, fleshiness, desire, seduction, pleasure, resurrection, and language.
This reality is somewhat obscured from view precisely by the fact that labor unions are so weak in the American private sector.
