For years, the region's headlong growth and margin expansion
obscured some of these issues.
We can confuse a lack of fame with a lack of blessing, perhaps, when the truth is that a wide open and spacious life is waiting in even the smallest and most
obscure of moments, an abundant life, healing, wholeness, courage, love, all hiding in the crucible of everyday life, everyday justice, far from applause.
«Only out of the conjunction of these two, primordial mythic intuition and directly experienced reality, does the light of the legitimate concept arise for this sphere too, probably the most
obscure of all.»
According to this understanding of revelation, sin means
the obscuring of our true possibilities from ourselves, a circumscription that leaves us unfulfilled and enslaved.
Empirical Science has certainly brought many benefits to communities but a by - product has been
an obscuring of questions about social, personal and cosmic meaning.
I was reminded of something the British writer G.K. Chesterton wrote in his book Orthodoxy (Chapter 4): «Tradition means giving a vote to most
obscure of all classes, our ancestors.
Distressed by
the obscuring of the clear word in the modern age, Goethe rephrased the first chapter of the Gospel of John as «In the beginning was the deed.»
The function of the Church as apostolic messenger to individuals is clear - cut, but emphasis upon it ought not to lead to
the obscuring of its mission to social groups.
The simple act of breathing links us in this curiously intimate way with every historical figure and the most
obscure of our forebears in every epoch.
The most entrancing and
obscure of Heidegger's images was that of the Geviert — one of Heidegger's many neologisms, usually translated as the «fourfold» — the «ring dance» of earth and heavens, mortals and gods.
The subject - predicate dogma, the scholastic dualism Descartes seemed unable to reject, only
obscures some of the truly important aspects of the cogito which inspired Whitehead's ontological principle.
The neglect of justice had led to
an obscuring of the religious heritage of hope.
Scaling the heights As the ranks of MPs quitting Westminster in 2015 stacks up, the bigger names departing parliament are
obscuring some of the smaller retirees.
it is analogous to over-smoothing an image — the granular image becomes so smooth
it obscures some of the salient features.
The grounds for pause isn't deception but rather whether his aesthetic decisions tend to flatten out or
obscure those of his subjects.
So I think that there is an implied pressure on the selection committee to take some big Hollywood - type names so that they aren't pre-criticized for having too
obscure of a selection, even if that means taking a film that's as bad as The Sea of Trees.
Wright's such a sophisticated filmmaker that the energizing pace
obscures some of the other caricatures that mar the supporting cast, and his dense epilogue speaks to the impulses of a filmmaker seemingly incapable of reaching a tidy finish.
The political import of interrogating the conception and representation of rape in film and film criticism is flagged in Russell's introduction, as she notes that to dismiss the question of rape «is to collude with the displacement and
obscuring of violence that naturalizes it in our cultural imaginary» (p. 2).
This is the 2016 Cadillac ATS - V, minus the heavy body cladding that
obscured some of the details of the car last time we saw it on the track.
Turn on the TV and zap through the channels and the chances are you'll come across an infallible doctor - either a talking head such as «Dr Phil» or one of the good looking fictional doctors of House, ER, Grey's Anatomy et al who, in a mere 60 minutes including commercial breaks and side - plots, manage to diagnose and cure the most
obscure of illnesses.
And what a joy it will be one day many decades anon to creak open the dusty spine of a vintage Quixote to read aloud to my grand nieces and nephews... Even with Porter's Campari stains
obscuring some of the text.
Naturally they do have a beard, which
obscures some of the muzzle.
Even as someone who shies away from credit cards with annual fees, I can see that the most
obscure of card perks can turn out to be totally worth the cost.
The most
obscure of these portables is the PC Engine LT, which featured a briefcase design, and the ability to connect to the PC Engine CD attachment, as well as the ability to hook other media devices to the on board screen.
From characters to stages to nods to even the most
obscure of titles, this made for a great gaming experience, and easily the best game on the Wii this year.
This obscuring of subjects to a point of abstraction, allowing faces to melt off the subjects like those of Francis Bacon's portraits, elevates while disguising the identity of the mundane, drawing on our cultural over saturation and disconnection from the physicality of violence.
This masking and
obscuring of time combined with the multiple references to media builds more questions than answers, giving someone a place to investigate and question both the history of painting and its relationship to modern life.
This deliberate
obscuring of depth and perspective, along with Hoffman's use of reduced forms and bold tones, evokes the compelling portraiture of David Hockney, while remaining far more gestural.
The process of creating such an object is both additive and subtractive, and evident by the layering and
obscuring of materials and images interspersed with meticulously placed drips.
One senses that this near -
obscuring of pattern and form is as deliberate as the precision with which she constructs her compositions, which are all made using a multitude of squares and rectangles of varying width and length.
Relying also on the images that surround us, John Baldessari encourages the viewer's attention to minor details, absence, and the space between things, and through his manipulation of the image, and the painting over the faces with primary colors, and
the obscuring of the portions of the scenes, challenges and creates philosophical inquiries into art and knowledge.
Absent that evidence, you appear to be guilty of deliberate
obscuring of the evidence (assuming that, as a scientist, you know the basic mathematics of uncertainties).
Wispy cirrus clouds
obscure some of the fire and smoke from the wildfires that have consumed large portions of northern California around the wine country in this latest NASA satellite image.
The focus on this 250 - year window, however,
obscures some of the most profound problems associated with climate change.
I would have opted to further
obscure some of the data to make de-anonymization harder, and I shared some suggestions for further scrubbing the data with Ben.
There's no reason not to put the chairs in front of the bookcases,
obscuring some of the books or objects, so you don't lose your furniture placement.
Not exact matches
«It's a shame that the coffee price issue
obscured the real story here for so many people, but, once again, this kind
of «one - way» data point thinking led investors astray... when it was actually quite strong,» said the «Mad Money» host.
Major colleges are up in arms over the reversal
of an
obscure rule that allows their alumni and supporters to make tax - deductible contributions to their teams, in return for priority seats at football and basketball games.
On the rare occasion when some sort
of partition becomes necessary (for example, to delineate a conference room) the favored material is clear glass that may block noise but does not
obscure vision.
So he and two graduate students, Ian Miers and Christina Garman, devised Zerocoin, a protocol that could
obscure the parties to a transaction using encryption while maintaining the auditability
of the shared ledger with a set
of advanced mathematical techniques called «zero knowledge proofs.»
Not all small businesses have much experience or many accolades to speak
of; however, rather than try to
obscure that fact, embrace it.
But all
of the game theory may have
obscured the fact that actual firms have to prepare their businesses for this uncertain regulatory landscape.
Supporters
of Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump attempt to
obscure a protestor from the activist group Code Pink, who is holding an anti-racism and anti-hate banner, as she interrupts the proceedings.
An
obscure Italian cryptocurrency exchange called BitGrail claims that it was hacked late last week and lost roughly $ 195 million worth
of customers» cryptocurrency.
Inside, a vintage wooden bar lines one wall, with bottles
of whiskey and gin sharing space with colorful sweaters, a case
of old Rolex watches and money clips, and various books and
obscure fashion magazines.
To gather up dog pictures, the app must identify anything from a Chihuahua to a German shepherd and not be tripped up if the pup is upside down or partially
obscured, at the right
of the frame or the left, in fog or snow, sun or shade.
Ultimately, the goal, he says, should be to «create intuitive graphical representations
of the underlying data» in ways that allow non-data scientists «to explore it without having to sit at a terminal and type in a bunch
of obscure commands.»
Hefner anxiously trolled Chicago newsstands to monitor sales but, thanks to his savvy investment in a previously
obscure calendar picture
of Marilyn Monroe with «nothing but the radio on,» nationwide sales
of the first issue reached 50,000.
Many who advertise falsify information about the grade or condition
of the collectable coins they sell, use counterfeit coins or encase damaged coins in plastic display cases to
obscure their resale value.
Five and a half years ago, when Narodick took the CEO's spot at Edmark, the publicly traded company was an
obscure, not - quite - $ 3 - million - a-year purveyor
of reading products (mostly workbooks) for the special - needs segment
of the school market.