obscureness
Example Sentences
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And while his aesthetic seems like ingratiating wholesome Americana, there’s an avant-garde obscureness underneath it.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
Whether a natural obscureness, hiding That region in perpetual cloud, Or our own want of effort, be the bar. ant.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
And some time after that young Bansted Downs moved into the room of the Master Genius to learn the higher attributes of genius—eccentricity and obscureness.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by George Newnes
The place so offensive for its cloudiness, is, —The obscureness of her birth Cannot eclipse the lustre of her eyes, Which make her all one light.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Theophilus Cibber
Thirdly, the author has, in many cases, contented himself with abstract reasoning, and therefore is sometimes chargeable with obscureness, on which account familiar illustrations have been supplied.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur