Sentences with phrase «at obscure corners»

If I single out appeals, I risk being hoist with my own petard, of looking only at obscure corners of the system.

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Winnebago's modest, low - slung headquarters — Potts occupies a windowless corner office on the second floor — sits at the center of campus, largely obscured by warehouses and rows of motor homes in various stages of production.

Here is a fisherman's wife of the first century, in an obscure corner of the Roman Empire, grasping at the possibility that her two sons — without education, breeding, or financial backing — might sit as princes in Messiah's kingdom.

Bharara had eagerly testified at the Moreland Commission's first public hearing, telling its members, «It is your challenge, amid high hopes, to hold public officials to account, to expose obscure corners of graft and greed, and to restore faith in honest government.»

At 43 years old, he did not consider himself much of a scientific success; he was now hoping to corner a niche of biology to call his own and chose a relatively obscure topic in the biology of bakers» yeast.

At the bookstore, you will find the latest Nora Roberts and E L James, maybe a Sylvia Day, sorted alphabetically under fiction or in an obscure corner labeled «erotica.»

On your ascent up to Fort Miley from the corner of 8th and Point Lobos, be sure to commune with the forest of Monterey cypress trees, which helps keep this parkland obscured from the hoards of visitors at Lands End.

This is incredibly annoying to deal with when you're not hiding behind a wall or at a corner as it obscures your vision more than it helps you to see enemies you can ambush.

«But women leave math when they discover that you can't do it without sustaining world - class illusions, such as the belief that grips one while one is working on a very difficult paper on a very obscure corner of a difficult subject, that here, at last, everything will be settled once and for all.»