After all, its origins go back to the days of the world's first successful jet airliner, the Boeing 707, which is rapidly passing into obscurity.
We lost one of the greatest artists of our time and instead of passing into obscurity he became more relevant every day. .
I had every reason to celebrate you passing from Downing Street to stucco obscurity in Belgravia, every reason to cheer your journey from this life to wherever you end up next.
The see of Canterbury seems at this time to have been passing through a period of comparative obscurity.
The movie itself (Electric Dreams) even featured a cameo by the Italian as a record producer (it has subsequently passed into obscurity).
This in turn was to extend the life of three seams: the Blairhall Main, the Lochgelly Splint and the Jersey, names which have since passed into obscurity along with others – the Lochgelly Parrot, the Duddie Davie – that have their toponymic roots in the mining cultures of the Forth.
Cibber recovered and Jones passed into obscurity.
In more modern times, The Poets and Poetry of America has been nicknamed a "graveyard of poets" because its anthologized writers have since passed into obscurity to become, as literary historian Fred Lewis Pattee wrote, "dead ... beyond all resurrection".
On that note, it should come as no wonder that the Casey Anthony trial does not pass in obscurity in a remote Florida court house, instead making it to the top international news headlines day after day.
Thus, what had seemed so grave a question at the time passed quickly into obscurity.
