Sentences with phrase «remained obscure»

He did more than anyone to make American reputations for several European modernists who might otherwise have remained obscure.

Although the importance of women photographers in the history and development of photography is no longer disputed, it remained obscure until recent decades.

As with most American painting and sculpture outside New York, Bay Area figurative art remained obscure — more local legend and oral myth than seriously examined cultural legacy — with even basic factual data unavailable.

In the United States, he at best remained obscure, at worst was belittled by the likes of Donald Judd, who issued this jab: «Most Americans, critics and painters alike, are not even sufficiently impressed by Wols's threat to Pollock's position to be interested in the argument.»

He remained obscure until the 20th century, when his reputation was revived by scholarly study and the interest of Paul Mellon, Anglophile and equinophile, who acquired many of his works.

But while queer art became a cause for museums and galleries — Mapplethorpe and Wojnarowicz were anointed figureheads in a battle between progressive and conservative values, which ultimately exposed their work to wider audiences — these women artists remained obscure.

It is thus lamentable that it remained obscure to the public save for a feature on issue # 40 of Nintendo Power, but its obscure status was all but unavoidable.

In so doing, it illuminated a world of student heterogeneity that had remained obscure until then.

In vitiligo, something is killing skin pigment cells (melanocytes), but the cause has remained obscure.

Although scientists knew that the system does not launch until calcium arrives, the details remained obscure.

The rare earless monitor lizard (Lanthanotus borneensis) has remained obscure since the last research was conducted on it in the 1960s.

Thus far, the connection between the gene, which produces a DNA - cutting enzyme called a nuclease, and the kidney disease has remained obscure.

Even then the exact cause remained obscure, since the sun's brightness varies by just one - tenth of a percent.

An analysis of sediments deposited over the past 4600 years provides a record of the vegetation and soil nutrient patterns and shifts in hydrology, revealing some of the processes that have hitherto remained obscure.

It was already shown by the same team that a superantigen must bind CD28 in order to do its harm but the mechanism underlying this need remained obscure.

The reasons for these differences in swimming ability have remained obscure — until now.

Mr Bercow announced his initiative to the Hansard Society in ebullient terms but much of the detail remained obscure.

Soberly reflecting on the collapse of the Catholic missions after Vatican II, and the failure of the New Evangelisation to recover the lost ground, he concludes that, while the faithful have often been reminded of the duty of evangelising, the motivation for so doing has remained obscure.

For many years Teresa remained an obscure nun, often troubled by ill health, but in her forties she began to have ecstasies and visions of Christ.

Though this activity remained obscure for Merleau - Ponty he at least found it valuable that Whitehead had not conceived it in terms of an idealistic passage from Nature to Spirit (N 155).

There was no question but that, for those in this movement, what is revealed is real, although its reality remained obscure to reason.

Unfortunately, Whitehead's own notion of «being present in another entity» is obscure in itself and has remained obscure in many of the interpretations of his philosophy heretofore presented.1 This paper attempts to indicate the direction in which a clarification of Whitehead's concept of causal objectification2 might proceed.

Were it not for Kendal P. Mobley's biography, Helen Barrett Montgomery might have remained an obscure footnote to both the women's movement and Church history.

Although investor advocates have for decades been calling for a clear and simple expression of the cost of investing, the information very often remains obscure.

The terms and conditions were deliberately designed to remain obscure, displayed in pale, small fonts.

Insofar as they are assumed to be «instruments of vision,» lighting up realities of the spirit which would otherwise remain obscure, or even nonexistent, they will be understood to be subservient to the realities disclosed.

(This remains an obscure question even on the assumption of all the Church's existing or future pronouncements.)

I am convinced that these epistemological issues remain obscured by a metaphysical haze.

But all of these texts are extremely difficult to interpret: crucial words remain obscure (e. g., authentein; exousia); the addressed situations are difficult to reconstruct; the «surface meaning» contradicts other Pauline material; and the methods of argument reflect cultural thought - forms no longer in use.

30 Certainly there is sin in the society which makes this possible, but it is sin in the context of the struggle for existence, and the insecurities of men and women in a society where the terms of sexual equality and fulfilment remain obscure.

When debating, it is easy to remain obscure and appear to understand the issue.

And like the functioning of the body, that of words and paintings remains obscure to me.

So deeply implicated had Irenaeus become in the doctrinal or magisterial aspect of the episcopate that the cultual and disciplinary functions of the ministry remain obscure in his surviving works.

Though several details still remain obscured, today's offering is «a big development,» said Colin Delany, Democratic digital strategist, Epolitics.com.

For Labour, things remain obscure.

Some aspects of this remain obscure, despite over 25 years of media investigation and scrutiny by both Houses of Parliament and the European Union.

Furthermore, the ultimate cause of the disease remains obscure, which makes it hard to gauge the appropriateness of an intervention.

The reasons remain obscure.

The precise origin of the virus that causes the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) remains obscure.

The researchers stress that the results should be treated with caution at this stage, not least because much about Parkinson's Disease remains obscure.

While the origins of BSE remain obscure, one possibility is that the cattle developed the disease by being fed meat and bone meal contaminated with prions from the sheep with the disease, scrapie.

Despite this central role for mitochondria in human health and disease, much of the basic biology of these organelles remains obscure.

Genes and mechanisms involved in common complex diseases, such as the autoimmune disorders that affect approximately 5 % of the population, remain obscure.

The actual cause remains obscure, but fecal transplant studies suggest changes in gut flora may be a causal factor.

One thing we can all agree upon: a cult movie doesn't need to remain obscure, but can achieve widespread critical respectability and public awareness over time.

I'm not in marketing, but wouldn't it have made sense to include some trailers for some of the studio's other romantic comedies or cable TV movies instead of letting them remain obscure?

Likewise, the details of the abduction emerge only in fragmented flashbacks, and the titular captive (Alexia Fast), now 17, spends her days recording monologues for purposes that remain obscure.

The conversations that Hedwig has are mostly with Casey (Anya Taylor - Joy of «The Witch»), who along with two other teenage girls (Haley Lu Richardson and Jessica Sula) has been abducted by Kevin — or, rather, by Dennis — and locked in a windowless bunker, for reasons that remain obscure until the film's modestly suspenseful, surprisingly gruesome and extravagantly ludicrous climax.

In Hollywood he remains an obscure supporting actor in films such as The Bank Job and A Perfect Murder.

However, Buster Bros. remains an obscure title that even some retro enthusiasts may not recognize at first.