"I was just constantly revising and revising.
Having attended and hosted many events about corporate responsibility, the tendency towards Panglossian blandness is both irritating and obfuscating.
But that doesn't answer the question of whether either side will ultimately benefit from a culture of ploys aimed at manipulating the public and obfuscating the truth.
There seems to be a new African strategy, of holding fair elections and then delaying and obfuscating when results that are unfavourable to the ruling party come through.
It believes that the Iranian government is probably already cheating and obfuscating in its effort to go nuclear, and will redouble these efforts once a deal is signed.
However, Google makes it comically difficult for users to do so, by defaulting the option to off, burying it, and obfuscating it.
Apparently, the Iranian citizen is meant to consider it self-evident that the country's national interest depends on concealing human-rights abuses, censoring the news, and obfuscating the electoral process.
"It is natural that investors will expect the worst," said Charles Wolf, an analyst with Needham & Company, adding that Apple has a history of "minimal disclosure" and "obfuscating" details about Mr. Jobs's health.
Swinburne and some other theists in favor of design arguments find the anthropic principle to be, at best, unnecessary and obfuscating.
It is a "symptom", a symptomatic phrase reflecting a basic ambivalence by both emphasising and obfuscating the complexities of living systems.
