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

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 Newnes, George

Something quick and subtle ran through my veins; something that for a few moments seemed to burn away the obscureness which blurs our thought.

From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Haggard, Henry Rider

"The obscureness of her birth Cannot eclipse the lustre of her eyes Which make her all one light."

From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

A sensation as such—if we are bound to speak of sensations—can by no possibility be an obscure sensation, for the trait that we call obscureness or vagueness constitutes the intrinsic being of that sensation.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.