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

Subdued splits and splutters whispered from out the obscureness, and a gentle grinding could be heard.

From A Daughter of the Snows by London, Jack

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

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

Thou mayst in after ages live esteemed, Unburied in these lines, reserved in pureness; These shall entomb those eyes, that have redeemed Me from the vulgar, thee from all obscureness.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote