Sentence examples for seemed obscure from inspiring English sources

He regularly appeared on American television, often delivering remarks that seemed obscure or tangential.

The Starns have continued to experiment adventurously with the material presentation of photography, but their preoccupations with nature and antiquity have seemed obscure or irrelevant to an art world transfixed by the effects of modern culture and society.

Cocteau had enlarged the scope of his work by the creation of his first film, Le Sang d'un poète, a commentary on his own private mythology; the themes that then seemed obscure or shocking seem today less private and more universal because they have appeared in other works.

She was drawn to these passages now, but when she read them she found that what she had pounced on with such satisfaction, at one time, on rereading seemed obscure and unsettling.... what to the partial vision of the living appears as the act of a fiend is perceived by the wider insight of the dead to be an aspect of cosmic justice...

Yet much of that, well-documented though it was by the veteran Fifa investigative journalist Andrew Jennings and others, seemed obscure to the football public, and Bin Hammam actually presented himself as a clean-up candidate when he began his charm offensive in preparation to stand against Blatter.

Here meaning seemed obscured (and emotions forced) in a less-than-thoughtful manner, despite the intelligence of these two artists.

During the ceremony on Thursday, the evolving nature of the site seemed obscured by the size of the event.

Godot no longer seems obscure.

▶ A philosopher makes the obscure seem obscure.

Certainly, Mr. Stern can seem obscure.

And it no longer seems obscure.