When I looked over the edge of the foxhole, the village was obscured by a cloud of dust and smoke. |
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To his right are a long-haired bassist and a long-haired lead guitarist, the second partially obscured behind a high pedal-steel station. |
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By now the path has degraded into the faintest of trails, partly hidden by leaves, obscured sometimes entirely by masses of tangled roots. |
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A maid and a butler hold umbrellas over a couple dancing on a windswept beach in their evening wear, their faces obscured. |
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But something was stirring in the clouds that obscured the fine blue of the sky, making them boil and seethe. |
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Its true nature is often obscured by strong emotions like anger and passion. |
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The sides of these trenches had the advantage of preserving the stratigraphy, but the baulks inevitably obscured parts of many of the features. |
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Too often crucial instrumental details were obscured in the mushy orchestral texture. |
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A majority of her frame was obscured by a bulky armor harness painted blood red, and marred with a thousand tiny scuffs and scratches. |
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Anthony Trollope's masterliness is obscured, first by charges of writing too much and too fast, and then by cultism. |
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Shadowy clouds completely obscured the moon, leaving a meager handful of stars to vainly attempt to provide light. |
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To be charitable, perhaps his paranoid focus on who'd been criticising Latham obscured his focus. |
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Traffic wardens were powerless to ticket him because the law says penalties cannot be given out if the lines are obscured. |
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Standing, the man in the black trench coat adjusted the sunglasses that obscured his eyes. |
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He squinted, but her face was obscured, either by the haze or by the mist welling up in his own eyes. |
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A shroud of thick clouds obscured its furthest side, giving the illusion of infinitude. |
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The view is angled sidewise and up towards a drop ceiling, and is partly obscured, giving the video feed a decidedly covert look. |
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The glare of the flash blanches some faces, while others are obscured by the frame's edges. |
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The details of the ornamentation are obscured by the coarseness of the silicification on some specimens. |
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Changing family structures, such as the emergence of blended families, have further obscured set expectations for male providers. |
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Use the crop tool to salvage something usable from your obscured photo, and the enlarge wizard to blow it up to a reasonable size. |
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A few years ago, after clearing a slope obscured by fallen trees and nettles for use as a rhododendron glen, they discovered mountain beavers. |
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In the background, a mountain range is partly obscured by a hedgerow and trees. |
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This is the only way to see the problem without it being obscured or muddled. |
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Unfortunately, it seems the benefits of such a crackdown are again to be obscured by its blunderbuss approach. |
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The man was dressed all in black, wearing a ski mask that partially obscured his face. |
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He placed his hands on it and looked over it, seeing a foot sticking out from under the tree, and a leg obscured by slashed jeans. |
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His mother's body is obscured in a boldly printed dress over which she wears a nondescript jacket. |
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The Valley was wedged in-between the two countries, being obscured in mystery and darkness and confusion. |
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If the wound bed is partially obscured by slough or eschar, the ability to stage before debridement depends on the type of tissue visualized. |
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There are times when the wreckage is obscured by thousands of schooling fish, like nannygai, yellowtail and pike. |
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There were no safety gates or flashing lights, and unpruned trees obscured the view. |
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He has served papers upon the Crown in which his address has been either obscured or certainly made unreadable. |
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From those obscured depths, the bubbled exhalations from unseen divers stream up from portholes, heading past us for the sun. |
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His deranged face was partly obscured by his untrimmed hair, revealing his riotous nature. |
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The location is in a heavily forested area obscured by vegetation and ground debris. |
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Tessa was driving, squinting through the veil of rain that obscured all vision not 50 yards ahead. |
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I looked up at the beautiful, full moon, partially obscured by a thin veil of mist, and found what I was looking for. |
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Although bone spavin usually causes lameness, this may be obscured if the lesions are bilateral. |
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Tomorrow's buff body loses out to the dread of today's workout, and a reduced risk of cancer is obscured by the pleasure of a cigarette. |
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No need to shield your virginal eyes, the nude figures have been laboriously obscured. |
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This plan, if it ever existed, has been very much obscured by burgages facing Magdalene Street. |
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For instance, when hafted, much of the morphological variation of projectile points is obscured, while the lithic raw material remains visible. |
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A cloud of dust obscured the battlefield from view and Vegito was forced to cover his eyes. |
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Lake Taupo looked windswept and the volcanoes were obscured by low grey cloud. |
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The sun was obscured by high, grey cloud, its disc appearing at once flat and lifeless. |
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Crackling clouds of ice obscured the floor and vast red-gold icefalls blocked the only exit. |
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The sun was almost entirely obscured by the heavy clouds, and tiny raindrops descended on the ground, the cold wind causing the rain to be icy. |
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His time in the war rose between us like a vaporous cloud that silenced his pain and obscured my ability to understand it. |
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Exploring a subject that has involved controversies and sensitivities, their research revealed an important story that was obscured for 50 years. |
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More recently you postponed your announcement because, you said, you didn't want it being overshadowed or obscured by your little legal matter. |
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The meaning of traditional astrological texts is frequently obscured by the use of archaic or obsolete terms. |
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Apart from a few rocks obscured in shadow and a waist high metal guard rail, the area was clear of any obstructions. |
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Furthermore, the importance of Pre-Columbian art even to Gauguin has been obscured in favor of Oceanic and, in particular, African art. |
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Lesser stitchwort is often all but obscured in the grassy slopes and drier meadows it tends to prefer. |
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Trenches are especially hazardous for workers because the lines of sight with equipment operators are obscured. |
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A high and light layer of stratus obscured the sun but the visibility overall was excellent. |
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In the earliest of Fukui's three-layer paintings, the newsprint collage was sometimes almost completely obscured by acrylic and sumi ink. |
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The sentence is an example of the author's tendency to overwrite, and to let his thoughts get obscured by mixed metaphors and convoluted syntax. |
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We were in 24 hours of daylight now, but fog and iceblinks obscured our vision much of the time. |
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So this morning we thought there might be a cloud deck of about 500 feet, and that would have obscured the runway. |
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From the door, the windows themselves were almost entirely obscured by the clustered pillars. |
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The pits on the Texas specimens are often partially or completely obscured by the coarseness of the silicification. |
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Mushrooms littered the floor of the mammoth cave and a thick coating of dust obscured most everything. |
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The only curtain on view had been woven by spiders, and their silky cobwebs obscured a stage of damp walls and dusty floors. |
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The beauty of the tree-lined, brick-paved street was perennially obscured during the birds' return. |
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The traditions of the citizens were abolished, the immaculate webs of tradition obscured by the dust of centuries, the dust of forgetfulness. |
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With its body obscured by murky waters, an ancient fanged reptile may have used its long neck to lunge at fish and squid. |
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The water is deep here and such a dark blue that the lines of the tiles at the bottom are obscured, indefinite. |
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One major problem of this piecemeal approach is that the source of distortions is obscured. |
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A nearly exclusive interest among historians of Netherlandish art in painting of the period has partly obscured such interdependence. |
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There are quotes from him, often obscured by the broadest contours of his myth, which question the consumerist thesis. |
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That criminality should not be obscured by a plethora of psychological or psychiatric assumptions. |
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Those eyes were the only thing that stood out in an unremarkable face obscured behind a carefully cultivated five o'clock shadow. |
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But there is nothing to say that cops can't monitor people while obscured by alleyway shadows. |
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It happened because a driver couldn't see a signal because it was obscured by a bridge. |
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Beyond that, he could make out buildings of some sort, but mostly everything was obscured by thick fog rolling through. |
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Once again the strategic goal of a two-state solution is obscured by the fog of war. |
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What should we make of the role of the crib sheets, in which the obscured texts are revealed? |
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In a trance, the imagination can travel freely where it wishes, turning up truths obscured by a pedestrian reality. |
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The waning gibbous moon was obscured by thick clouds so I had trouble making out the road in front of me. |
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In a philosophical prolegomenon, Schmidt examines twin interpretive narratives that, he argues, have obscured the study of modern hearing. |
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The language of central banking is obscure, deliberately obscured, in my view. |
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The godliness of the characters is obscured in a manner which amounts to a betrayal of the historical and cultural origins of the performance. |
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The King however was partly obscured by a pillar, although I could hear his voice, deep, rich and golden. |
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Yes, I think the reason I did not have it there, I think a hole punch has obscured the paragraph number. |
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Briefly, the moonlight was obscured by a cloud and an unreasonable fear gripped me as I realised I could not see the statues. |
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Its partner on the right shows a taxicab-yellow ground largely obscured by a gestural, gunmetal gray. |
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The female shows the same silhouette but is a brown duck whose crest is often obscured. |
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Homeopathic remedies often have fancy names going back to Hahnemann's time, when much of medicine was obscured by use of dog Latin. |
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His vision obscured, only at the last minute did he spot that the fence had been dolled off because it was damaged. |
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The mutual estrangement has obscured in many respects the view of the living unique character of the other. |
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Red watched as a short, stocky woman walked over, one of her eyes obscured by an eyepatch. |
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It was a debt that Kohlhaas owed to a world that was rapidly losing its beacons, a scene obscured by selfishness, lascivity and easy compromise. |
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A young man stepped into the firelight, his face partly obscured by tumbles of dark brown hair. |
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During his subsequent wanderings, Odysseus is dipped repeatedly back into the condition of the obscured. |
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Tory tried to see her reflection, but the moon was waning, the stars obscured by clouds. |
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Manufacturers void their warranties if the labels on their water heaters are obscured. |
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Is there a danger of much being lost or obscured from either willful or unintentional neglect? |
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The work of the poet, who perceives and attempts to define the wonders, complexities and beauty of nature, is hidden and obscured for many. |
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His laddish image and macho pronouncements have obscured the fact that he is happily married to a Japanese woman, Yuriko. |
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Most reproductions of the work are from a later alteration that obscured her obvious female characteristics. |
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To the immediate right, there is a short climb up a rock rib, at the top of which is an obscured boulder crawl leading on and up. |
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We were at 700 feet and one and a half miles, with the visibility obscured by light fog. |
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Details that are often obscured in performances by lesser artists were clearly articulated. |
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The focus on the artificiality of those codes means that the actual gender of the actor becomes obscured, and indeed irrelevant. |
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With the focus, by and large, turning to door delivery, in the case of consumer durables as well as perishables, the location factor has been obscured. |
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People were singing the national anthem as the whole front of the National Palace was obscured by a smoke cloud. |
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Nostalgia about the World War II era has obscured the actualities of that period, with partisan and domestic politics not simply disappearing after Pearl Harbor. |
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Big female cuckoo wrasse, pollack, several bib and a John Dory were all I could see, although my view was slightly obscured by several fronds of kelp. |
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The ruins are partially obscured by cloud forests with jungle-like vegetation, but through binoculars the men could see the mountaintop ruins in the distance. |
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He often complained about muddy pedaling that obscured the musical line. |
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The radical nature of Baran's reformulation of Marxist doctrine is obscured by an understandable tendency to confuse Baran's theory with Lenin's earlier theory of imperialism. |
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He also festooned Weisman's original letter with mock-serious footnotes, which added to the fun but further obscured the composite character of the whole. |
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This and other glaring contradictions have been obscured by yammering talk-show yahoos who have been attempting to equate dissent with treason and capitulation. |
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Not a single piece of ambiguous language obscured the food on offer. |
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Through the screen's open central doorway a carved retable can be seen, but the altar itself is obscured by two angels who occupy the space, singing from a book. |
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The interior is largely obscured, however, by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating. |
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The clouds billowed up out of nowhere and obscured the sun within seconds. |
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Oddly, since the day was so foggy, parts of the landscape that were completely obscured in the light of day, now shone brightly under a moon brilliant enough to read by. |
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These skeletal features readily evident in outer part, but in inner part, where numerous excurrent canals occur, structure obscured by recrystallization. |
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Bones are obscured by overlying feathers, skin, and musculature. |
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Abroad, his prestige as a Nobel laureate obscured these difficulties. |
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This record has been obscured on the Earth by billions of years of rain, wind, erosion, volcanic eruptions, mountain building, and plate tectonics. |
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He deletes that infamous unresolved opening chord and inserts some suitably ominous guitar atmospherics that play up the desperation obscured by the Beatles' peppy original. |
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Nothing here is obscured or confused by authorial partiality. |
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He was captivated by footage of her escape through the hazy entryway of the supermarket, which was obscured by pepper spray. |
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The interior is largely obscured by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating. |
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From the height of 700 feet, a lush uniform green obscured the destruction unfolding below him. |
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What part of her father may have been human in form was entirely obscured by the coruscations of white light which, whether by accident or design, accompanied him. |
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Dusk was setting in, and the horizon completely was obscured in haze. |
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But Kulbert can write, too, a fact obscured by his first skill. |
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A gutter margin helps ensure that text isn't obscured by the binding. |
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The truth here is not even obscured with the usual smoke and mirrors. |
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It was partially obscured by the wilted tentacles of a suspended epiphyte. |
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The third reason is to encourage a focus on aspects of evolution sometimes obscured by controversial issues, such as sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. |
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For example, the title track's obscured by excessive meandering, never giving any indication of the song's center, or the composition's significance. |
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Monthly data may allow more precise measurement of consumption responses to price changes that are obscured and averaged out through the use of annual data. |
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Because lesions can be obscured within the underexposed dense tissue, underexposure is a potentially more serious error because it can lead to false-negative results. |
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Exact clinic locations in this map have been obscured to be neither visible nor retrievable. |
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On the other hand, if large amounts of well-preserved authentic paint are obscured, it is usually worthwhile revealing them and regaining the tonality of the original colours. |
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The ground began shacking with such great force, not even the lifeless roots obscured in the grey soil were tough enough to hold up their dying masters. |
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That goes a long way in the halls of local high schools, where they would otherwise spend their adolescence obscured by the shadows of the jocks and cheerleaders. |
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He is much happier in the muggy heat and I am enjoying the sight of the black Cleopatra lines around his eyes, which are usually obscured by general shagginess. |
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If successful, Stardust will become only the third spacecraft to capture such a close view of the dark heart of a comet, normally obscured by a bright veil of dust and gas. |
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Examples survive of all of these, although the intention must have been for them to be obscured by painting or trimmed away in the completed manuscript. |
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That is to say, these feelings, shaped by biology and gravity which commit us to an upright and erect posture, have obscured some very necessary goals of architecture. |
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For the previous several hours we had caught fleeting glimpses of the faint outline of a range of mountains shimmering through the heat haze that obscured the horizon. |
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He's a slender, pale man, whose face is obscured by a black cowl. |
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Syona's head, craned forward, was obscured by her short lustrous hair. |
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For it is through words that our understanding of things get even more complicated, inflected, and obscured as the processes of representation and seeing run their course. |
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His face was partially obscured by a bandana and a baseball cap, from beneath which his long ponytail hung limply. |
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A tugboat improbably sits high on the bank, obscured by tall grass, a broken oil rig hangs over the water nearby. |
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Overemphasis on Salem's economic and religious struggles obscured the town's strategic location and the chronological concurrence of Indian and witch attacks. |
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A hunting horn sounded, and through the trees he caught a glimpse of the flying bodies of the pack, but the trail was almost obscured by overgrowth. |
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Another omen claims that if the first crescent of the new Moon appears with its lower horn obscured, stormy weather is indicated in the first phase of the Moon. |
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Scientists use this kind of picture, called a coronagraph, in which the sun is obscured, to better see the sun's atmosphere, the corona. |
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As the launch commenced, rotor wash created a powdery sand brownout around the aircraft that obscured all ground references. |
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Maybe a blob of cigarette ash obscured that particular sentence. |
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The scenes of penetration are obscured with masking or blurring. |
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What if someone has let off a smoke bomb as someone is walking down some stairs and their vision is obscured causing them to fall? |
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In areas the infiltrate obscured the dermal-epidermal junction with focal vacuolar interface change. |
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Otherwise, the pious would have an obscured view of the covered icon and altar through the grillwork at the top of the Scala Santa. |
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The station is in a shallow cutting, a fact obscured at the front by a hotel building, but which can be clearly seen from the other three sides. |
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Action is often obscured thru mise-en-scenes that are either disorientingly dark or blindingly lit. |
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Plot logic and narrative rhythm suffer from time to time, when they are obscured by unduly long-winded excursuses. |
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I fear, though, that this excellence gets obscured by the fact that Judge Reinhardt is best known for his ideology. |
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This is a perfect dog-day. The atmosphere thick, mildewy, cloudy. It is difficult to dry anything. The sun is obscured, yet we expect no rain. |
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The surrounding lower ground is formed from Carboniferous Limestone though much of it is obscured by superficial deposist of Quaternary age. |
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There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of learned men as this. |
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Edward III was still formally at peace with David II and his dealings with Balliol were therefore deliberately obscured. |
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However, care must be taken not to overclear the specimens otherwise details of the clypeolabral plates may be obscured. |
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This political corruption obscured justice, making it difficult to identify violence when it related to drugs. |
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After a couple of years without pruning, the shrub had grown overlarge and completely obscured the window. |
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Over the centuries any memory of them has been obscured, and thus the veracity of their historical existence is now difficult to substantiate. |
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These labs are more difficult to detect than stationary ones, and can often be obscured among legal cargo in big trucks. |
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Sites related to the first migration are usually submerged, so the location of such sites is obscured. |
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They may also be used to indicate an obscured danger such as a sudden drop, or a noteworthy point such as the summit of a mountain. |
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As the Earth is located within the dusty outer arms, there are large portions of the Milky Way that are obscured from view. |
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The deeper ancestral demography of Bermuda's population has been obscured by the ethnic homogenisation of the last four centuries. |
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The records for the rulers of the Hebrides are obscured again until the arrival of Godred Crovan as King of Dublin and the Isles. |
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Cornea edema obscured detail of the anterior chamber, but the edge of the lens could be seen clearly within the pupillary space. |
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The incorporation of women's work in the sciences during this time tends to be obscured. |
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The evolution of carnivorous plants is obscured by the paucity of their fossil record. |
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Neither obscured from the comfortable beams of the sun, nor covered from the cheerful and tempestive showers of heaven. |
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In modern colours, setts made up of blue, black and green tend to be obscured. |
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The resultant outcome is that we observe the relationship predominantly between antecedent stimuli and the response and reinforcer equivalences are obscured. |
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There would be multiple rings of defensive walls, one inside the other, with the inner ring rising above the outer so that its field of fire was not completely obscured. |
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Because the project was never completed, Blake's intent may be obscured. |
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A study published during the early 1960s indicated that sunshine recording instruments remained significantly obscured throughout the year and entirely obscured during June. |
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Also, the terrestrial evidence for some of them has been erased or obscured by larger ones, but evidence remains from the study of cyclical climate changes. |
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They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights. |
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The missing valve was not noticed by anyone, particularly as the metal disc replacing the safety valve was several metres above ground level and obscured by machinery. |
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A recent study indicates that the drastic rearrangement of the genome of the accipitrids may have obscured any close relationship of theirs with groups such as the owls. |
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While traces of this category survived elsewhere in Germanic, the phenomenon is largely obscured in these other languages by later sound changes and analogy. |
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It was designed to observe regions of space obscured by stellar dust. |
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Restoration work at the Santo Domingo complex exposed the Inca masonry formerly obscured by the superstructure without compromising the integrity of the colonial heritage. |
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Virgil, Milton, and Voltaire have obscured the idea of the Epic, as the perfection of ballad poetry, by trying to write after the Epic model in an unepic age. |
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In the mixed population which existed in the Danelaw these endings must have led to much confusion, tending gradually to become obscured and finally lost. |
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