To remove the background and other edge-lying obscurities, the subject's face was cropped from the original image based on the positions of the eyes.
There are many obstacles to such knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life".
One minute she was a bag of nerves enraged at the poor light that day (a constant Bown refrain), by the obscurity of her subject and by the pointlessness of photographing him or her at all.
Some of the obscurity surrounding this subject springs, I think, from a failure to distinguish between the right to sue upon the quantum meruit, when the contract remains uncompleted through the fault of the defendant, and the measure of damages in such a state of facts.
About the gods I am not able to know either that they are, or that they are not, or what they are like in shape, the things preventing knowledge being many, such as the obscurity of the subject and that the life of man is short.
420 bce) opened his work Concerning the Gods: About the gods I am not able to know either that they are, or that they are not, or what they are like in shape, the things preventing knowledge being many, such as the obscurity of the subject and that the life of man is short.
Although whoever shall indifferently perpend the exceeding difficulty, which either the obscurity of the subject, or unavoidable paradoxology must often put upon the Attemptor, he will easily discern, a work of this nature is not to be performed upon one legg; and should smel of oyl, if duly and deservedly handled.
Protagoras has sometimes been taken to be an atheist but rather espoused agnostic views, commenting that "Concerning the gods I am unable to discover whether they exist or not, or what they are like in form; for there are many hindrances to knowledge, the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life".
Avoiding celebrities, Mr. Hockney has produced a group of intensely observed, un-prettied faces of friends and acquaintances; despite the subjects' obscurity, the works are psychologically as well as physically vibrant.
The more countries and companies compete for talent, the better the chances that geniuses will be raked up from obscurity.But the subject is strewn with landmines.
