Sentence examples for utter obscurity from inspiring English sources

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Certainly the meteoric rise of the title looks suspicious; it usually takes many months to build from utter obscurity to chart success.

For a hundred years or so after his death in 1900, however, Mr. Beard himself -- his body, that is -- languished in utter obscurity.

The only thing keeping it from utter obscurity is its association with a parkway -- a memorial of dubious effectiveness, as Major Deegan might put it.

He is meant to suggest the sort of writer who existed on the periphery of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene: Cyril Connolly, Lawrence Durrell and, most explicitly, Mr. Boyd has said, William Gerhardie, a highly acclaimed novelist of the 1920s who greatly influenced better-known peers before dying in utter obscurity a half-century later.

She wanted to include pieces she loved by James Castle, a highly regarded, self-taught artist who died in 1977 after laboring in utter obscurity in Garden Valley, Idaho, making work that seemed to lie in some forgotten land between Rauschenberg and Warhol.

The intrepid Judith Bernstein, who has lived and worked in Chinatown for fifty years, most of them in utter obscurity, fills the main gallery here with "Cabinet of Horrors," a screed against Donald Trump in the form of big acrylic paintings on paper, installed against screaming orange walls.

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Well, surely no city on earth needs another destination boutique with the precise mix of aspirational designers and utter obscurities that retailers like to describe as "curated".

artmod, posted online Obviously that's hugely flattering and you'd like to think it was the case, but they've lived their whole lives to develop a dedicated aesthetic of total improvisation while being utterly ignored by society and living on the fringes of humanity and in utter poverty, and then dying in obscurity and never being recognised for their art.

Through meticulous and exacting work, carried out in obscurity and often in utter anonymity, these magicians of language open the door to whole new book stacks of wonder; they gift us with new ways of experiencing an expanded world, and new avenues of sharing the human experience.

Utter garbage!

"Captain America: utter, utter, utter tosh".

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