Today lungs are found not only in land vertebrates but also in a few obscure fish lineages, such as gar, bichir, and lungfish. |
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Only Bartoli could have made best-selling albums out of obscure arias by Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Gluck. |
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I would like to encourage you to take advantage of it, and to warn against impulses to hide, obscure, wallow, or control. |
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Certainly, if last night's showing was anything to go by, his work was somewhat abstract and obscure, and obviously an acquired taste. |
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Still, this is a Frank Black album, with its obscure references and abstruse lyrics. |
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Jane accepts the position gratefully, even though it is monotonous, poor and obscure. |
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No longer are you creatures of an accidental happening in an obscure corner of a randomly evolving cosmos. |
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As if to counter the accusations of snootiness, not every selection is wilfully obscure. |
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I'm standing in the garage of a supercool geek guy who is building an obscure, rad, retro sportscar. |
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Lastly, if the site or journal is too obscure, I may as well go post on some random message board. |
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Endless tributes, adulation and back rubs from his closest allies tend to obscure the truth. |
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In the meantime I imagine my obscure rantings and categorisations may draw the odd comment from those versed in literary theory. |
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No situation, however obscure, or however sacred, escaped the rapacity of the enemy. |
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The highly textured surface of these poems does not, however, obscure the continuous emotional undercurrent. |
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You can't help wondering why a company that whittled Hamlet down to 90 minutes needs two-and-a-half hours for a relatively obscure Chekhov story. |
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Black clouds obscure flashes of orange light against the night sky in the city. |
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But what I wrote is probably more accurate in some obscure technical sense of reflecting my true agenda. |
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The Protestant public also wielded the power to obscure their influence in the public sphere and redefine the terms of public debate. |
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There is a seemingly limitless choice of the world's finest products as obscure and delicious as free-range acorn-fed Portuguese black boar. |
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His astonishing debut feature is one of the most wilfully obscure pieces of genre-busting cinema in a very long time. |
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These windslabs often obscure rocks and other hazards and react easily to skier traffic. |
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The object of covering a gift in paper is to obscure it from the receiver's view long enough for them to give you yours, right? |
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Besides, they've got this universal broad appeal, whereas all I'm doing is wittering on about obscure pop music. |
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Rafael starts speaking in an obscure accent as he collapses at the foot of the conference table. |
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In fact, the word lambada is an obscure Brazilian Portuguese word, and refers to the wave like motion induced in a whip. |
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That technique should bring out the curl but not obscure the beautiful rays of the lacewood. |
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Stuffed with obscure allusions and historical minutia, his novels are not the type you take to the beach. |
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Is the original line really so obscure that some lamebrain who has absent-mindedly wandered in off the street going to have difficulty with it? |
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For folklorists generally, folk beliefs and practices were regarded as the fragmentary and often obscure remnants of older systems. |
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Mr Sumption says, if necessary, that in the present case the phraseology is both obscure and ambiguous. |
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Three stops along the route, at an obscure request stop in Old Ford, a phalanx of 16 photographers were waiting to take our picture. |
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The slender figures, warped by an obscure anamorphosis, have been salvaged from the darkness, retrieved and figured. |
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Perhaps it is for this reason that hill running is sometimes depicted as an obscure offshoot of mainstream athletics. |
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The second thing to do is to see if you can make anonymous or obscure personal information so that a leak will be less damaging. |
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A relatively obscure virtualisation system has leapfrogged better-known rivals. |
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It is squarely in the tradition of Japanese ghost stories, where revenants deal out cruel and inexplicable vengeance for obscure reasons. |
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Not as tricky as it sounded, though my result is pompous, Romanticised and riddlingly obscure. |
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With poor lighting and an obscure target, my effective range would get significantly shorter. |
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We took special glee in laughing at all the ice-skaters' hilarious rig-outs and the obscure terminology that seems to go with that activity. |
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The muffled roar of passing traffic obscure the tinny, faint words being spoken. |
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To begin with, he is robed in loose but complicated fabrics that obscure all sense of human fragility. |
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I'd suggest we get T-shirts, but the little ones would only be sick over them and obscure the cool logos. |
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She's the one who frequents the repertory cinemas watching obscure, artsy flicks and documentaries. |
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She bases this claim on an obscure source on the Ashanti, as if what the latter do is typical of all West African weaving. |
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The obscure concepts of the rhumb line, the loxodrome, and spherical trigonometry were also beyond their grasp. |
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He is being deliberately obscure and difficult because his work attempts to short-circuit the way you are thinking. |
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He seems a somewhat austere and unsympathetic figure and his verses today seem dull and obscure, in translation at least. |
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During the 80's the UK went mad for the more obscure sports of snooker and darts. |
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But when he signed with him in November 1923, he was no obscure vaudeville trouper fresh from the tank towns. |
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The etiology of the systemic granulomatous disease sarcoidosis remains obscure. |
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It's ironic that the saxophone is well known while the sarrusophone is obscure. |
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An axial planting of coral trees, for instance, was employed not to obscure, but to project and accentuate the building's profile. |
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The period of Roman decline and the early history of the Saxon kingdoms remains obscure. |
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His list of 54 organisations ranged from teamster unions to the mainstream NGOs to obscure anarchist groups like the Black Clad Messengers. |
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Joining them as musical director is local scratch wizard DJ Pocket, who provides a wide mash of musical styles and obscure sounds. |
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Rear visibility is good due to a large rear screen although big headrests and a wide B pillar obscure over-the-shoulder visibility. |
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The glass installed here should be opal or sufficiently textured to obscure the view in. |
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Some may be obscure to people who haven't read much about martial culture or military history. |
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The audience surveys a melange of imaginary figures, and historical ones both famous and obscure. |
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Even relatively obscure players are accorded brief biographical sketches if there is sufficient information about them. |
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Such grand narratives frequently obscure the sequence of events they are struggling to explain. |
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At the moment, trees obscure the existing camera's view of some parts of the street. |
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Terri stared at a weeks-old hand-written order for some obscure deleted LP, which was Sellotaped hopefully to the side of the till. |
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So they decided to obscure their relationship, taking a female pal along as Sie's de facto beard. |
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As well as a few semi-literate requests for obscure albums, we are now apparently subscribed to Reclusion's newsletter. |
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It is also a good way to obscure a behemoth like the Colossus that overlooks your patio from your neighbor's yard. |
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But mountain biking is an obscure cousin in the celebrity sports family of World Cup soccer and Olympic track. |
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So knowing them off, especially the more obscure shelf marks, is a sign of greatness amongst us nerds. |
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One gentleman is so dedicated to locating obscure dispensers that he actually uses city transit to visit remote suburban garage sales. |
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It also governs landscape features that delve down into the earth such as mines and quarries, wells, caves, holes or obscure valleys. |
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Maybe in the future people will think the minhag is to wear sports shoes, for some obscure reason. |
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The sequence alterations caused by RIP and gene conversion can obscure the evolutionary history of transposable elements. |
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One of the challenges involved picking out mistakes on a wine list, such as misspellings of obscure vineyards' names or incorrect vintage years. |
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Its great achievement is to recover the complexity of a literary mode that could easily be dismissed as vindictive, petty, and obscure. |
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An obscure weekly published from Calcutta took notice of the event. |
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It was therefore known principally as Clare Riesling in Australia until 1976 when ampelographer Paul Truel identified it as this relatively obscure French variety. |
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I typed a few letters of some obscure site, and hey presto, autocomplete. |
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Woven throughout his columns are certain recurring references to objects of American popular culture that are both obscure and perfectly on point when he throws them in. |
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Little is known of the obscure sculptor who executed the bust. |
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The asserted benefits of transracial adoption further obscure the system's racial bias and masquerade as reasons to oppose policies that preserve black families. |
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As such, the heretofore obscure executive now occupies a place of privilege in the financial elite. |
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I miss hearing him sing off key to obscure broadway show tunes. |
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While hardly as obscure a job title as key grip or best boy, it's safe to say that most people wouldn't know exactly what being a director of photography involves. |
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And I got quite a bit of interest with a post on a 12 th-century Anglo-Norman play, so you don't have to worry about dealing with what some might see as obscure topics! |
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Horror fans should get a kick out of this obscure little film. |
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Maybe, somewhere in our current favorite object of escapism, there is an obscure hunger to confront these hard facts. |
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Some critics complained that his symbolism was obscure and was lost on the audience. |
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I had grand visions of dropping my obscure '80s post-punk gems on people, of sowing the seeds for '90s revivalism via some well placed selections. |
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The movie goes a little overboard with its repeated use of Plato's discussion of Atlantis, but makes up for it with the more obscure reference to the biblical leviathan. |
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There were imported suits, obscure gramophone records, antiquarian books, fancy horse-wear, dinosaur eggs, buttered croissants, white chocolate and computer games. |
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Ask him another and he begins to sing in obscure riddling rhymes. |
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His bibliomania ran especially to foreign books and obscure theologians. |
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Ben Johnston, 19, also put his legs up behind him to obscure his registration plate while riding the moped, after he realised he was certain to lose his licence. |
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Community members were persuaded to attend long and awkward meetings at which cattle station plans were outlined in language which was alien and obscure to the Bulman mob. |
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All I heard were some anonymous weasel words written by a bunch of corporate hacks who realize they can no longer defend or obscure one of their more egregious lies. |
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It will cover a large range of popular music genres and artists giving a national platform to the more obscure and less commercial tracks that rarely receive airtime on radio. |
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He can barely speak the titles, but manages to let Viridiana and That obscure Object of Desire pass from his lips. |
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Whether it was actual ignorance, senility, or some obscure test, it's hard to know. |
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Uncertainties in history, archeology, biogeography, anthropology and biosystematics obscure the dates and places of the first domestication of cultivated crops. |
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Exactly a century ago, an obscure Cuban cocktail named the daiquiri emigrated to America. |
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Many words in English have obscure origins, particularly those which may be said to have risen in the world from lowly origins in argot, cant or slang. |
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And because he adores obscure imported ales, cycling while sloshed felt pretty familiar, too. |
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The movie is full of obscure references that only pop culture enthusiasts will understand. |
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The losers walk away with their tails between their legs as small children hurl rocks at them and wizened babushkas cackle insults in obscure Slavic dialects. |
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But the authority of his name far exceeds that of our own, famous or obscure though we be. |
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Perhaps womanist is a word that does not obscure or contradict feminism, but that represents a new kind of feminism that is fresh, informed and accessible. |
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If you survive his maze of dense wordplay and obscure references, you will probably not find anything too terribly profound, but you'll still be smarter. |
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Even the most hostile versions of his family story can't obscure the fact that he walked out on five children who struggled to survive without him. |
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And there will be, inevitably, and quite immorally, an attempt to obscure the historical wrongs and the injustices that lie behind the firestorms. |
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Glenn Jones totes a collection of obscure vintage guitars behind a huge rack of FX units seemingly fashioned from some drawers and a Zimmer frame. |
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And when you're sitting atop your horse, you can look around and see land that stretches for miles, without a mini-mall or condominium complex to obscure the view. |
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It was never conceived as a legal doctrine that could be argued or adjudicated by any court, so it's hardly surprising that terra nullius was such an obscure concept. |
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It allows Maliki to obscure his own corruption and the role his sectarian policies played in fomenting the crisis. |
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While he enjoyed the experience once in the air, he found the process of booking the flight to be archaic and obscure. |
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Botanists can recognize almost all the plants depicted by Bellini, however obscure. |
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Too much emphasis on feeling or ascription of meaning could only obscure what was truly musical about music, its articulation of style, form, and structure. |
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The London-based company provide interpreters in more than 100 languages, from the well-known including French and German, to the more obscure such as Berber and Tagalog. |
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As always, its leaders paid lip service to lofty ideals to obscure the ugly base alloys. |
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We have also acquired a controlling interest in the lexicons of both Armenian and Uzbeck, as well as a minority shareholding in several obscure Romance dialects. |
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Philosophers trained in modern logic may accordingly feel that there is something either obscure or else superficial in the notion of irreducibly tensed predication. |
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It blinds us to its presence, even as it works to obscure our reality and provide logical explanations for illogical facts. |
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Despite its invention nearly 20 years ago, ambisonics has remained rather obscure to this day due to the fact that decoding processors have not been readily available. |
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A more macabre inspiration surfaced in 1890 when an obscure author called Bram Stoker stayed at the seaside resort of Whitby. |
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In the summer of 2006, an obscure mullah in Calcutta seemed desperate for some media attention. |
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This unremitting insistence on his color, this continual shunting him into obscure and filthy ways, gradually gave Peter a loathly sensation. |
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In 1917, Wolfli began composing music by means of solmization, replacing traditional notation with an obscure code of words and symbols. |
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He is said to be considering a comedy based on the obscure JB Priestley book Tober and the Tulpa. |
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The location identified most closely with well dressing is Tissington, Derbyshire, though the origins of the tradition are obscure. |
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The spectacular speculation runups and falls tend to obscure the fact that every time the ratchet twists the base is higher. |
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Incense fragrances can be of such great strength that they obscure other, less desirable odours. |
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The site also features obscure terms that nobody would want to steal, such as detachable motor caravan and multifunctional industrial building. |
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Eccentric musicians draw Talmudic distinctions between obscure recordings. |
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However, there are several words, many of them heavily used, which have no classical counterpart or whose etymology is obscure. |
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Sclerotized areas light reddish-brown, with obscure cruciform pattern on frontoclypeus, membranous areas pale yellow. |
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New book Spilling The Beans On The Cat's Pyjamas reveals the origins and meanings of some of the most popular and obscure sayings we use today. |
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Once an obscure investment instrument, mutual funds have become the financial vehicle of choice among middle-class Americans. |
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I discussed Soviet movies with expatriates. I sat with uranists in the Deux Magots. I published tortuous essays in obscure journals. |
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To such folk as qualify in the class of small collectors I recommend excursions into the obscure bypaths of antiquedom. |
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In all present femora, sediment and other bones obscure the caudodistal part. |
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Congkak is a game played by Malay women and children in Malaysia during their leisure hours but its origin is obscure. |
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Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. |
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This big wallcrawler has remained somewhat obscure, probably due to its indistinct appearance. |
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I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. |
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Vertebrates remained an obscure group until the first fish with jaws appeared in the Late Ordovician. |
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At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances. |
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The smoke didn't obscure the rainbow. Rather it seemed to rise enfoldingly around it, like honeysuckle climbing a porch column. |
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William Shakespeare was interested in the legendary history of Britain, and was familiar with some of its more obscure byways. |
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The trend among the young historians was to either write about the new empire or obscure antiquarian subjects. |
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Hopeless adman Greg tries to pitch an obscure dairy product on behalf of an intimidating client. |
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Records of Kent following the death of Wihtred in 725 are fragmented and obscure. |
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In 1064 William invaded Brittany in a campaign that remains obscure in its details. |
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Historians emphasize the strength of the ambition that took Napoleon from an obscure village to command of most of Europe. |
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The art of the Medes remains obscure, but has been theoretically attributed to the Scythian style. |
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The church and the entire area then passed through the hands of numerous invaders, and its history is obscure until the 10th century. |
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Without it the names of Wesley and Methodism would likely be nothing more than obscure footnotes in the pages of church history. |
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As we all know, Joyce's magnum opi Ulysse and Finnegans Wake are commonly thought difficult and obscure. |
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Many instruments are taught, including obscure ones such as the didgeridoo. |
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Origin of the word scone is obscure and may, in fact, derive from different sources. |
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Injections of an obscure cell best known for making collagen might quell the runaway inflammation that underlies lethal sepsis. |
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Its origins are obscure and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings. |
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The circumstances of Esther and its first performance, possibly in 1718, are obscure. |
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After that, he managed another winning streak against some obscure boxers, but by 1958 it was clear his best days in boxing were long over. |
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Its origins are obscure, deriving perhaps from an older Egyptian tradition, or possibly from an Asian source. |
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Even for those who are familiar with Indian classical music, the jati and its transformation to raga remain very obscure. |
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Many Souterrain underground passageways were constructed, though their purpose is obscure. |
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Even now, I need not rush to read any books for clearing even the obscure doubts on any of the Puranas or Shastras. |
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Old Gutnish, the more obscure dialectal branch, is sometimes included in the Old East Norse dialect due to geographical associations. |
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Joan of Arc came from an obscure village and rose to prominence when she was a teenager, and she did so as an uneducated peasant. |
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Though now eminent in the academic field, Thomson was obscure to the general public. |
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The nighantus, which are concerned with the interpretation of sacred literature, are glossaries of obscure words found in Vedic texts. |
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The record saw the return of more heavily layered guitars, and Fraser began once again to obscure her lyrics, though not entirely. |
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The origins of portolan charts are obscure, having no known predecessors despite their accuracy compared to other maps of the period. |
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Arzawa has been associated with the much more obscure Assuwa generally located to its north. |
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All the recent nonstudio additions to art curricula only obscure the problem. |
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Further, the flowery fireworks only bloom transitorily compared with its undistinguished and obscure processes of ascending movements. |
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What ironworks existed at Coalbrookdale and from precisely what dates thus remains obscure. |
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In 1729 he went to London, where he began as a portrait painter, under the apprenticeship of an obscure artist, Thomas Wright. |
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The voices of recondite writers quoted at length, forgotten storytellers weaving narratives, obscure scholars savaging one another. |
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For thinking by this retirement to obscure himself from God, he infringed the omnisciency and essential Ubiquity of his Maker. |
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The distinctions between these different descriptions are important to physical oceanographers but are obscure and confusing to nonspecialists. |
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Bentham had devised some machines for making blocks, but did not develop them and details of how they worked are now obscure. |
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The fruit is a small samara, although the wings may be obscure in some species. |
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The tribe contains about 65 genera, and relationships within it remain obscure. |
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Violent and romantic images harmonize into an ascetically pleasing bricolage whose intertextuality is obscure. |
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Their general arrangement was faulty, and their language sometimes obscure. |
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What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view. |
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Though some mammals have very little, careful examination reveals the characteristic, often in obscure parts of their bodies. |
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Ambiorix remained a relatively obscure figure until the nineteenth century. |
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The foundation of Constance is obscure, though it was the largest diocese in Germany throughout the Merovingian and early Carolingian era. |
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My mystery organisms range from ctenophores to the obscure solar powered sea slugs which steal chloroplasts from their algal food source. |
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I cursed, thinking the automated stoplight camera had taken my photo, attributing some infraction unwarranted or obscure to me. |
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Viktor Zubkov, an obscure official, as the new prime minister of Russia has many analysts yearning for the old days of Kremlinology. |
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Chapters offer plenty of troubleshooting techniques and tips for resolving common XP programs and many an obscure detail as well. |
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The links between wild honey, stringybark and other elements make sense to me, even if the manikay remain obscure. |
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They value the smart-arse over the funny, and the obscure over the popular. |
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We always had these parties at someplace obscure, like out in the woods. |
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And too much of a focus on numbers can obscure strategic truths. |
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It was a self-contradictory statement meant to obscure the facts. |
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To avoid direct retribution from censors, writers often hid criticism in obscure articles or expressed it in ironic terms. |
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There are sub-forums on alpine touring, backcountry and mogul skiing, and obscure ski areas, among many other topics. |
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Artists obscure during their life often receive posthumous recognition, too late for them to enjoy. |
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Unless the siltstone is fairly shaly, stratification is likely to be obscure and it tends to weather at oblique angles unrelated to bedding. |
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Such understanding of their origins is largely the result of Gothic traditions and their true genesis as a people is as obscure as that of the Franks and Alamanni. |
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Living in an unequal and often hostile world, it is tempting to project the utopian image of a racially harmonious world into a distant and obscure past. |
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Other sources connect its name with an obscure deity named Gontia. |
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The pseudostome and pseudoproct become obscure and are shortly obliterated, the sarcoid forming a thick, smooth, uniform layer over the stem and over its terminal disk. |
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In areas of higher moisture, a soil slope may obscure the talus. |
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That suggests religious context, the details of which are still obscure. |
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The more obscure and rinky-dink the country, the more anally retentive the officialdom, and Kiribati was about as obscure and rinky-dink as it got. |
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As a practical matter, a fertilizer company could not afford to second-guess the Federal Trade Commission or a jury in a triple damage case on so obscure a point. |
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Also, stay away from the more obscure Spanish fly and Bufo toad. |
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Many primitive machines are coated with layers of rust, and some of the butterfly ballots are written in obscure languages such as Aramaic, Sanskrit, and Southern English. |
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Barrel reboring is one of those obscure but vital services to the gun trade that gives life to all manner of restoration, repair and custom gunmaking projects. |
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The years following the death of Wilfrid are obscure in Ripon's history. |
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Kruse tosses in another popular, if more obscure, trend in ideological historiography by inaccurately conflating libertarianism with the more well-known conservative movement. |
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For some time, I have read the snarky letters to the editor and wonder why obscure errors rise to the level of readers not renewing subscriptions. |
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At midnight Wednesdays, longtime rock jock Jim Ladd hosts a commercial-free hour of sound effects, poetry and obscure music designed for headphone listening. |
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There is a village called Whitburn in Linlithgowshire, also the name of the parish, but it is miles from any navigable water, and was obscure until the seventeenth century. |
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In this situation, the standard for benignancy is the expected appearance of developing neurosensory retina, a relatively obscure reference tissue. |
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The site, which has a blacklist vocabulary of 65 pages, also features obscure terms like detachable motor caravan and multifunctional industrial building. |
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An obscure 1992 kiddie cartoon, FernGully The Last Rainforest, Titanically pumped up by James Cameron, who still insists 3D gimmickry is the future of cinema. |
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Smoke can obscure visibility, impeding occupant exiting from fire areas. |
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Here doctors confront diseases that are obscure and vaguely medieval, the triumph over them further romanticized by the sheer bizarreness of the challenge. |
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He runs out of gas, and back on the ground meets up with a girl who is motoring through the deadland to meet her boss in Phoenix for some obscure technocratic purpose. |
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This brute factness of science ought not to obscure the decisive fact that Kant provided an idealist reconstruction of this scientific realist base. |
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Upon their heads were strapped vast helmet-like torches of glittering metal, from which the fragrance of obscure balsams spread in fumous spirals. |
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As a result, the kingdom is regarded as comparatively obscure. |
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Sound implicates these obscure tethers, which connect sound to noise, thereby giving sound its sense. The implicated difference inholds an obscure reserve of sense. |
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These states report that their repositories are for possible antibioweaponry research and insurance if some obscure reservoir of natural smallpox is discovered in the future. |
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His literariness helped him understand the obscure references in the book. |
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As a result of this loss, there are gaps in Roman history, which are filled by unreliable works, such as the Historia Augusta and other books from obscure authors. |
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It consists of a series of obscure prophetic utterances attributed to Merlin, which Geoffrey claimed to have translated from an unspecified language. |
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Aside from the common images of citizens and the Luttrell family, some images remained obscure but some can be related to the text beside which they are painted. |
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The justice of such criticisms should not obscure his achievement. |
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A lack of references to her work during her own time may indicate that the religious authorities did not count her worthy of refuting, since she was an obscure woman. |
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He believed that hosting the event could help spur growth of the game in the country, where it is relatively obscure and faces competition by other sports such as baseball. |
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Although the northern frontier appears to have been Hadrian's Wall for most of the history of Roman Britain, the extent of Roman influence north of the Wall is obscure. |
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He is a dazzling obscure writer who can be enjoyed without understanding. |
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The dominance of Latin among the literate elite may obscure the continuity of spoken languages, since all cultures within the Roman Empire were predominantly oral. |
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The legacy of Gaelic as the first national language of Scotland does not obscure the foundational process in the establishment of the Scottish kingdom of Alba. |
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The early years of David I are the most obscure of his life. |
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Several kilometers deep, they obscure the underlying topography. |
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During the slow recovery from this catastrophe a previously obscure group, archosaurs, became the most abundant and diverse terrestrial vertebrates. |
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The poetry praises the military prowess of the prince in a language that is deliberately antiquarian and obscure, echoing the earlier praise poetry tradition of Taliesin. |
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After repeating an earlier reference to the Flood, the Crucifixion and the day of judgment, the poem closes with an obscure reference to metalwork. |
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Most of these battle sites are obscure and cannot be identified. |
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Their meaning is often obscure, but they reveal John's predilection for order and the lasting influence of Whistler, whose teaching emphasised systematic preparation. |
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Beatty was to windward of Hipper, and therefore funnel and gun smoke from his own ships tended to obscure his targets, while Hipper's smoke blew clear. |
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Blaine to shuffle the papers and obscure from him which he was signing first and the actual order went unrecorded, thus no one knows which of the Dakotas was admitted first. |
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Allergan, the company that turned an obscure muscle paralyzer for eyelid spasms, Botox, into a blockbuster wrinkle smoother, hopes to perform cosmetic alchemy yet again. |
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The circumstances of Cabot's death appear obscure and contradictory. |
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The name of Elmet is probably Brythonic, but its origin is obscure. |
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