Sentence examples for willfully obscure from inspiring English sources

Some will call this approach willfully obscure.

Having initially been attacked as willfully obscure, he was now accused of over-explicitness.

He is also fond of ambitious analogies and, at times, can make simple arguments almost willfully obscure.

Rather, these were bona fide creatures of punk and indie rock: the washed-up, the never-weres, the willfully obscure, the destructively proud, the cripplingly stubborn.

Just when you might feel tempted to dismiss the work as hermetic, however — or even willfully obscure — "Dark Pool" begins to speak.

Pressed against me by sullen commuters, Bell summarized his apparently reluctant conclusion as we pulled into Paddington station: "Bohr was inconsistent, unclear, willfully obscure and right.

Retelling only zingers uttered in opposition to the author's viewpoint seems to have the purpose of manipulating the actual facts and perhaps even willfully obscuring the actual facts.

That difficult reality, for years denied, obscured, willfully ignored or forgotten, is now increasingly accepted here, historians and French officials say, part of a broader reckoning with France's uncomfortable wartime past.

"I'm not willfully trying to be obscure or difficult," Ms. Williams said.

But move outside of that growing community, the impression remains that poetry - in general terms - is difficult, almost deliberately obtuse and obscure, frequently dull, and willfully uses words such as "crepuscular" or "obsidian".

The movie runs more on mood than on plot or psyhology: the motives of the characters are at once too obvious and too obscure, and the storytelling is willfully oblique.