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

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 Cibber, Theophilus

The contents of consciousness are vivid or clear in the center of this field and fade away into vagueness or obscureness in proportion to their approach to the periphery.

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

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 Arnold, Matthew

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