Sentence examples for present obscurity from inspiring English sources

This is partly because the present obscurity surrounding it can, paradoxically, give rise to conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact.

But in a way, Ms. Rogers's present obscurity only emphasizes how silly the celebrity game can be, how little it can take to become one and how quickly it can all be over.

She was also a renowned educationalist, and it is surprising that her advocacy of women's education in works such as Letters for Literary Ladies (1795) has not helped to save her from her present obscurity.

D'Indy also followed Wagner's lead by dabbling in anti-Semitic polemics (he and the painter Edgar Degas were decidedly on the wrong side of the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s), and that, perhaps even more than the intrinsic quality of his music, has colored posterity's dim view of him and contributed to his present obscurity.

THE present-day obscurity of Joseph Alsop, a once-feared political pundit, is instructive in many respects, but especially in regard to the fleeting nature of power and fame in Washington.

Nevertheless, this moment, of threatened voting rights and judicial obscurity, presents a paradox: the strongest tool that citizens possess is being made impotent by the government officials who are most immune to the power of the vote.

According to The Daily Beast, Mr. Christian joined the radio show "just a few days ago, after laboring for several years in relative obscurity presenting a breakfast show on a  local Melbourne channel".

His was not the sort of whiggish, anecdotal approach by which senior scientists tend to ossify the progression from past obscurity to present clarity, but a deeper attempt to understand the twists and turns of theory and evidence, which ensure that even our present-day knowledge is provisional, and like life itself, historically constrained.

Some writers, it is true, suppose that the Cabots preceded Verrazzano to this region by more than a quarter of a century; but the voyages of the Cabots are involved in so much obscurity, and present so many points for controversy, that it is impossible to ascertain with any degree of certainty just what parts of North America they visited.

The novel "RL's Dream," published in 1995, opens with a scene in which an elderly black man named Soupspoon Wise, living in obscurity in present-day New York, strikes up a friendship with a young white woman named Kiki Waters.

This instinct for withdrawal and obscurity speaks to present critiques of digitised life.