All 12 Uses of
obscure
in
The Fountainhead
- Keating consoled him, cursed Francon, cursed the injustice of humanity, spent six dollars in a speak-easy, entertaining the secretary of an obscure architect of his acquaintance and arranged a new job for Tim Davis.†
Chpt 1.5
- He gave his readers the impression that there were no problems, no achievements, no reaches of thought beyond the common daily routine of people nameless in the past as they were in the present; that science had no goal and no expression beyond its influence on this routine; that merely by living through their own obscure days his readers were representing and achieving all the highest objectives of any civilization.†
Chpt 1.6
- The sharks had refused to sell these blocks to an obscure real-estate company; at the end of the campaign they surrendered and sold.†
Chpt 1.12
- He found an obscure firm that accepted the commission, grudgingly and as a special favor to him.†
Chpt 1.13
- There was an obscure contractor with a fat, expressionless face.†
Chpt 2.5
- Our structures have the great advantage of obscurity and timidity.†
Chpt 2.7
- He held the post of vocational adviser at the university, he reviewed books, plays, art exhibitions, he wrote articles, gave a few lectures to small, obscure audiences.†
Chpt 2.9
- His father had long since died, and Aunt Adeline had vanished into the obscure poverty of some small town; at the death of Catherine's parents there was no one else to take care of her.†
Chpt 2.9
- There were week ends when they left the city together and drove in her car to some obscure point on the coast.†
Chpt 2.10
- Some of the men were famous, others obscure.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- He went to a shack he had rented in the hills of an obscure village.†
Chpt 4.7
- An obscure delicatessen owner got his shop smashed for advertising in the Banner.†
Chpt 4.15
Definition:
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(obscure as in: it obscured my view) to block from view or make less visible or understandableeditor's notes: Although this meaning of obscure typically refers to seeing or understanding, it can also refer to situation where something makes something else harder to detect or as when a noise makes another noise difficult to hear. Similarly it can reference something overshadowing something else, as in "Her memory of her dog's death was obscured by her brother's death the next day."