Who knew our most obscure bits of punctuation also had such obscurely lovely names?
The simple manoeuvre of replacing Labour's front man has achieved an improbable but widespread amnesia about its shortcomings; yet Mr Cameron is held obscurely accountable for mistakes made when he was scarcely out of short trousers.He can consider himself unlucky, too, in the unpredictable vagaries of political chemistry.
The idea that it is hard to rebuild state institutions and what is now obscurely known as civil society is both true and unhelpful: unless you conclude from it that America should avoid foreign entanglements altogether, as the neoconservatives emphatically do not, it is of little operational use.
The image hovers obscurely in the imagination of every British prime minister.
The truly consensual, blandly non-tribal option, cheese and tomato, was eliminated in the first round, which felt to me obscurely like an ill-omen for the Liberal Democrats.Lunchtime today found me in Kimbolton, a Cambridgeshire village so solidly Tory that much of its pretty high street is taken up with a large Georgian country mansion now run as a private school.
Obscurely displayed for many years, the Merzbarn relief has recently been moved to a new permanent room devoted to his art.The work takes the astonishing form of an old dry stone wall about 15 feet (4.5 metres) long and eight feet high, abstractly overlaid for the most part in ridges, orbs and crevices modelled out of painted plaster, twigs, wire, garden canes and other materials.
The dragon's responses are given in the form of obscurely worded classical poems written on pieces of paper issued by a 70-year-old villager, Chen Yushan, clad in his blue padded Mao suit.
Most of them keep in mind a simple commandment: say as little as possible as obscurely as possible and always know why you are saying it.
Pirate, colonist, slave A Riche history Little red card Sun Tzu and the art of soft power The one-shot society Retail therapy Brewed force The wisdom of crowds Portrait of the artist as an entrepreneur Seven seconds of fire ReprintsThe prime minister wasn't there yet, but the spin doctors were mingling in their obscurely menacing way.
By then, she had been released early for good behaviour, had paid her fine and had moved to Chicago, to live obscurely and to help out sometimes in her father's Japanese-goods shop, selling bags of the hated rice to midwesterners.Her pardon seemed an admission that she was not Tokyo Rose.
The Campaign for Socialism, he declared firmly, if a little obscurely, was in favour of "best value".The SNP guffawed disbelievingly.
