Sentence examples for total obscurity from inspiring English sources

"The much bigger problem is total obscurity," he says.

Goldsmith's rise from total obscurity was a matter of only a few years.

Because they had played only in total obscurity, they figured no one would notice their unusual pairing.

It didn't matter whether a song was soul, funk, or rock whether it was a hit or a total obscurity.

People sometimes saw her walking along the beach, dressed in white, and she died in her 50s, in total obscurity.

In fact, he lived out the remainder of his life in almost total obscurity, his work meeting with indifference.

I'm really excited". By the time greatest eclipse, shortly after 5 44 p.m. EST, the light of the full moon was replaced by near-total obscurity.

Despite his prominence on the poetry scene in the 1930s and 40s, by the time of his death in 1984, aged 81, his work had drifted into near-total obscurity.

Mr. Putin, the spare, dour 47-year-old former chief of domestic intelligence, has captivated the public and utterly confounded political sages since his vault from near-total obscurity.

Not long before, Julian Hawthorne, Hawthorne's son, had visited Melville in his near-total obscurity, and found, in Julian's words, a "melancholy and pale wraith," fidgety and nervous, whose "words were vague and indeterminate".

How come substantial numbers of British readers of literary fiction can conjure with a few names from recent Japanese literature - Yukio Mishima, Yasunari Kawabata, Haruki Murakami - while the Chinese Shen Congwen, Qian Zhongshu and Mo Yan languish in near-total obscurity?