Sentence examples for usually obscure from inspiring English sources

Indeed, the evolution issue transformed a usually obscure election into a race of unusual intensity.

Eleanor Kitzman has been Texas' insurance commissioner for only a year, but her tenure in a usually obscure political post has already included headline-grabbing controversies.

The councils are usually obscure groups that host meetings with the schools chancellor and put on poorly attended forums on issues like healthy lunches.

Defensive tackles are usually obscure, and even though the man known as Hammer led the Giants last season with 10 sacks, other defenders, notably Strahan, got more attention.

With the help of organizations like Make the Road by Walking, Good Jobs New York and NYC Park Advocates, they have packed usually obscure and sparsely attended "scoping hearings" with hundreds of people to register their disapproval.

With the exception of a few warhorse anthems like "I've Gotta Be Me," the songs are usually obscure, culled from recordings of club acts and the sort of musical movies rarely found at Blockbuster Video.

In the summer and early fall, the work is usually obscured by corn that is farmed on the land to within feet of the sculpture.

These days smog usually obscures the hills, but this remains a colorful spot, a low-rise mini-world with a distinctly Chinese feel.

Otherwise the stage director Luke Leonard made outstanding use of limited space, deploying his vocalists in front of and behind an onstage orchestra usually obscured by a translucent scrim.

The ridges of the mountains are usually obscured by a bank of clouds known as a foehn wall, which marks the upper limit of precipitation on the windward slopes.

Abu Dis epitomizes a reality usually obscured in the simplistic public debate about Jerusalem and its fate: Just as the village is integrated with the Jerusalem area geographically, economically and socially, East Jerusalem itself is entwined with the West Bank.