Yet all this activity detailing the history of the blues during the twentieth century obscures a few thorny questions. |
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In another plaque, Prussian blue pigment, meant to replicate copper corrosion, obscures much of the surface. |
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Aside from this confusion, this use of homicide as a dysphemism for suicide obscures the singular depravity of suicide terrorism. |
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Such an analysis obscures the relation between miscarriages at different stages of gestation and maternal age. |
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His oratory and intellectual robustness a breath of fresh air from the political doublespeak that obscures the core issues of the conflict. |
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I sometimes worry that the concern over self-identity obscures a far bigger problem. |
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In the case of cuneiform text, trying to look at language use in terms of oral/literate dichotomies only obscures our understanding. |
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Displacement of bones obscures anatomical details, but the fenestra ovalis seems to be absent. |
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The heavy impasto of the grove obscures the legibility of trunks and ground. |
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Anything that obscures Christ hinders worship, for it immediately distances us from the Godhead. |
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The women on the left are sharply defined but a pall of dust or smoke from a fire obscures the features of those on the right. |
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The geneticist obscures the chasm between her hope and the technical options he is offering. |
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The violent countdown to elections often obscures how that country is charting its new course on the world stage. |
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It is thankfully the most obtuse piece here, and the only one in which that obtuseness obscures the song rather than aiding it. |
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Which is to say, the habitual use of labels obscures the individual rather than illuminates. |
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The network news means to correct this tendency, but unclear language obscures the truth, no matter in whose interest one employs it. |
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Grappling with ACTION's history helps make the case for why a dichotomous view of Civil Rights and Black Power obscures more than it illuminates. |
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In this sense, the perlocutionary force of language and performance further obscures the boundary between art and life. |
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When floodwater rises and obscures this warning notice, it is dangerous to drive ahead. |
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Although TV snow obscures the main picture, a noisy signal can sometimes improve visual perception. |
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In other cases, a dense overlay of solid-color enamel obscures the underpainting. |
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A porphyry obscures the contact between the Cross Slieve Group and the Red Arch Formation. |
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That dried-up worthless twit once again obscures the real point with blather. |
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The blather from both sides obscures the real, but largely hidden, agenda behind the tax cuts. |
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As Gowing says, Vermeer's rendering of shadow not only obscures line, it interrupts and denies it. |
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Indeed, the tight articulation of the vertebrae throughout the vertebral column obscures details of accessory intervertebral articulations. |
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Condemning them obscures the larger message to be taken from this atrocious crime. |
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It disarms criticism, obscures realities, and prejudges results. |
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The epigraph, a quotation from Dante, further obscures the atmosphere. |
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Perhaps this ostentatiousness obscures the real question of how deep his influence has been. |
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To insist that the church can use only these words obscures the graciousness of the Gospel for some. |
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Mounts easily on Cap-and gives incredibly good light when it obscures or in total darkness. |
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Ford's nymph is coated in ugly black paint, which gnarls her elegant ringlets and obscures the marvellous details of her girdle. |
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The audio that automatically starts playing completely obscures the speech of the screen reader. |
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This proposal obscures, and indeed aggravates, the fundamental political and theoretical causes of the crisis. |
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We must move to a place in our debates that illuminates rather than obscures the makeup of any bill. |
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However, the aggregate data obscures some important differences among individual sources of income. |
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The lack of analysis also obscures risks that may be produced by funding program design created to manage risk rather than produce outcomes. |
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But this simple statistical figure obscures the strategic centrality of state-owned industry. |
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What plays as depthless violence and bruising circus on screen obscures commercial pragmatism. |
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Although the quartz encrustation protects the calcite from dissolving, it obscures the twinned nature of the crystals, which is revealed by mechanical removal of the crust. |
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The chairs don't make me squirm, the napery and drapery are the only aspects that sparkle or dazzle and the lighting obscures the scars of my years of debauchery. |
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A cloud of fog obscures the tunnel mouth they are about to plunge into and, because the track is tilted, it is also hard to see how the vehicle will be guided. |
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I hope that those who participate in this great debate will frame their arguments in language that clarifies the issues rather than obscures them. |
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This approach only detracts and obscures what is really happening. |
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Excess cerumen in the external ear canal commonly causes hearing loss and vertigo, contributes to infection and obscures visualization of the tympanic membrane. |
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Each page is covered in a translucent layer of white acrylic and mica that partially obscures the text, which is printed in an old-fashioned Gothic font. |
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However, it is equally possible that differences in allelic strength or perdurance of maternal contributions obscures the full range of phenotypes on the several components. |
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But in important ways the ' but for ' test obscures the true role played by causal principles in assessing legal responsibility. |
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However, there is an uncritically held view of the market in the region, which decontextualizes income inequality and poverty and obscures their origins and mechanisms of reproduction over time and across countries. |
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The greatest offense is usually simply that of reading a poem as though it were a poem, in a boomingly uniform incantation that obscures nuance and texture. |
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He printed the archival pictures on retroreflective sheeting, a material that obscures the images except when they are struck with direct light, such as a camera flash. |
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While it's interesting to look at stylistic or contextual commonalties, this approach obscures as much as it illuminates our understanding of his work. |
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But they also used newly-laid tarmac to secure the old post, which partly obscures the new sign. |
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Thus, the revised theory merely mitigates and obscures the untenability, harshness, intrusiveness, and stigma objections to the old. |
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His office is in Apple's design studio, protected by a 10ft-long internal vestibule that obscures all the prototypes and work from all but the permitted to enter. |
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Federal law states that an organization such as the NRA cannot solicit money for itself and then deliver that money to its Pac – an action that obscures the beneficiary of a donation from the donor. |
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Some scientists, however, consider FAE such a catchall diagnosis that it obscures some important genetic diseases. |
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The haze reduces visibility and obscures what we see, as can be noticed in these two pictures of the federal Parliament Buildings on days with high and low levels of fine particles. |
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We must also say that we do not share this kind of silence on the part of the European Parliament which is spreading to all these issues like a low mist which obscures everything. |
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Lack of confidence in the possibility of ensuring food safety, for example, is spreading like wildfire and, when all is said and done, obscures the Union's positive work in this sector. |
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But, nonetheless, the unthinking use of the term al-Qaida, as has so often been the case in the past, obscures rather than illuminate the real chaotic and fractured, if still dynamic, nature of modern Islamist militancy. |
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Similarly, an entity shall not disclose information that is so aggregated that it obscures important differences between individual transactions or associated risks. |
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The valley...is about three miles in breadth, and is confined by two lofty ridges of equal height, displaying a most delightful intermixture of wood and lawn, and stretching on till the blue mist obscures the prospect. |
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This subsidy obscures the real cost of doing business, and has to begin to be calculated and counted if the idea of corporate social responsibility is ever to be anything but a sham. |
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A rich lower midrange obscures what might have been greater transparency but results in an easy listenability. |
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A little distance, a shift in a new direction, and you get an optical illusion-seeing what you thought was there, the depth of field obscures and reveals the depth of feel. |
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The popular perception of bankers as Porsche-driving sociopaths obscures the fact that many of the industry's staff are modestly paid and sit in branches, information-technology departments and call-centres. |
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This familiar dichotomy-a nation alternately tilting at windmills or cynically interring its collective heads in the sand while tidy, ultimately obscures the currents that have long guided U. S. foreign policy. |
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The interior has ice crystals carved on it, which obscures the view of the surprise inside: a double-handled trelliswork platinum basket filled with amazingly natural-looking mountain anemones. |
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This similarity is another source of confusion, since it obscures the difference between prepositional and particle phrasal verbs. |
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Others object to this usage, arguing that this terminology obscures the universality of public worship as a religious phenomenon. |
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A law may merely be a cloud that obscures the real problems in society. |
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When haze obscures the horizon, navigators use artificial horizons, which are horizontal mirrors of pans of reflective fluid, especially mercury historically. |
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