The show's unpopularity (and Galifianakis's own obscurity) were running gags from the beginning.
While the design and the museum's exhibitions have been knocked by some critics since the reopening, Mr. Lowry, who came from the relative obscurity of running the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, is regarded as a deft administrator and world-class fund-raiser who reshaped a huge, unwieldy institution at a crossroads in its history.
Obscurity Street runs hopefully into Tomorrow Avenue.
She joined the Pataki administration after being an adviser to Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, who had plucked Mr. Pataki from political obscurity to run for governor.
Karzai is believed to favour Zalmai Rassoul, a former foreign minister who emerged from relative obscurity to run for the top office and has the backing of Karzai's brothers Qayum and Mahmoud.
When she was plucked from almost-but-not-quite obscurity to run Polpetto in 2010 – previously she had worked as a pastry chef at Raymond Blanc's Diamond Club at Arsenal FC – the goal was to create a mini-clone of Polpo.
Slapping the stylish silver device down on his coffee table, the man who emerged from obscurity to run Compaq, a company whose name became synonymous with personal computing, makes it clear he wants to break with the past.
Lewandowski was a little-known political operative before Trump plucked him out of obscurity to "run" his campaign.
Carl Theodor Dreyer, greatest of Scandinavian directors, remained behind but was reduced to comparative obscurity, making documentaries, running the Dagmar Cinema in Copenhagen and directing just three masterpieces between 1943 and 1964.
Far from having retreated into disgrace and obscurity, he is running for the presidency, and strongly.For many months, the clear leader in opinion polls had been Irene Saez, a former Miss Universe and these days mayor of Chacao, a prosperous district of Caracas.
