Plain everyday obscurity had been replaced with a kind of agonised unique obscurity.
England needs its best coaches on the inside, developing the best players, not consigned to the plains of obscurity and a lifetime of regrets.
I had visions of that fellow in the balloon, high above the plain, floating into journalistic obscurity, so I did what one cannot ordinarily do with a babushka.
Perhaps narcissism and despair about their creeping obscurity, or just plain madness explains why in the early 21st century many Britons, long after losing their empire, thought they had found a new role: as boosters to their rich English-speaking cousins across the Atlantic.
Security within computing systems is ambiguous, proliferated through obscurity, a knowledgeable user, or plain luck.
He loved our part of the south and his work reflected southerners' innately contradictory qualities of ambiguity and plain-spokenness, cruelty and kindness, illumination and obscurity.
And as the subsequent stampede of internet talking horses (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Broken Social Scene, and Cold War Kids to name but three) tried and failed to follow the same path Arcade Fire had taken from the foothills of indie obscurity on to the high plains of U2-style bombast, the key attributes of Pitchfork Rock became increasingly distinct.
Outside philosophy there have often been calls for replacing specialized professional idioms with "plain" language, which is always presumed to be free of obscurity and therefore immune to abuse.
Beyond them a handful of Microsoft decamillionaires and thousands of just plain old millionaires are largely doomed to a life of obscurity.
Unless you come from royalty or from a line of nefarious evildoers or from people who etched their names onto the planks of the Mayflower, chances are the just plain folks of your family lived and died in relative obscurity.
With startling facts and jaw-dropping tales of courage and depravity, the author triumphantly rescues Hispanic America from obscurity.Spanish conquistadors brought horses to the Great Plains as early as 1540, showing native Americans in present-day Kansas how horsemen with spears could kill 500 buffalo in a fortnight.
