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- Didn't the insurance companies realize that the cost of their obfuscation, denial, all the frustration they caused, only made her father's health worse, and threatened that of her mother?† (source)
- At first only a few random words were clear enough to be understood: "Market ...too free to be ...obfuscate ..."† (source)
- The Criminal Element advised "stalling, delaying, and obfuscation of every possible sort" when it came to dealing with a criminal.† (source)
- It was dishonest to act like Margo hadn't participated in her own obfuscation.† (source)
- Unlike Hobie— who assumed, incorrectly, that anyone who walked into his store was as fascinated by furniture as he was, who was extremely matter-of-fact in pointing out the flaws and virtues of a piece—I had discovered I possessed the opposite knack: of obfuscation and mystery, the ability to talk about inferior articles in ways that made people want them.† (source)
- "M. Silenus has committed the ultimate act of non-communication," wrote Urban Kapry in the TC'v Review, "by indulging himself in an orgy of pretentious obfuscation."† (source)
- It's in the nature of the genre that since the act itself is buried under layers of misdirection and obfuscation, it cannot support layers of meaning or signification.† (source)
- You suppose we're reading too much into this talent for obfuscation?† (source)
- Carried away by the daily valor of the Marines, working at a safe but obfuscating distance, and swept up in its own fantasy of a swashbuckling fight for a mountain, reporters invented the heroic fight up the slopes, and the flagraising among whizzing bullets, out of whole cloth.† (source)
- She is—or was, I should say—apprenticed to the minister of obfuscation and deferment, and was here performing her duties on the day the corrupted raided the building.† (source)
- In economics we call it obfuscation with a cloud of smoke and a couple of mirrors.† (source)
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- Rachel Levy, head of the center's publicity department, thought blandness and a trace of obfuscation would be the best approach, but Hannah overruled her.† (source)
- He had one of those refined discriminating intellects whose powers of logic were more than equal to my powers of obfuscation.† (source)
- He was not candid. Instead he tried to obfuscate and even deceive.
- "What does 'obfuscate' mean?" asked Constance.† (source)
- They did not hide or hoard or obfuscate.† (source)
- Moments ago, she'd purposely obfuscated.† (source)
- They'll work it out with embassy obfuscation and read it to us before issuing it.'† (source)
- Obfuscate!† (source)
- "Normally I would want to talk about why you'd chosen to obfuscate in the first place," he said, "but your honesty was real, and I know you've already learned any lesson I could give you.† (source)
- No obfuscation was necessary.† (source)
- Above them, directional signs pointed the way to certain offices: 4 —UNDERSECRETARY OF TEMPORAL AFFAIRS 4 —CONSERVATOR OF GRAPHICAL RL•CORDS NONSPECIFIC MATTERS OF URGENCY —I DEPT. OF OBFUSCATION AND DEFERMENT —I Through the door to the Temporal Affairs office, I saw a man trapped in the ice.† (source)
- Since it was inconceivable to me that Halloween was not as much a part of their vocabulary as it was of mine, I felt that I had obfuscated the high festival of witchcraft with a combination of too much talk and too much bull.† (source)
- The stressing of this historical element will lead to confusion; it will simply obfuscate the picture message.† (source)
- The result has been, on the one hand, a general obfuscation of the symbols, and on the other, a god-ridden bigotry such as is unmatched elsewhere in the history of religion.† (source)
- If Drayton were with us again to write a new edition of his incomparable poem, he would sing the nymphs of Hertfordshire as indeterminate of feature, with hair obfuscated by the London smoke.† (source)
- As for uncle Pullet, he could hardly have been more thoroughly obfuscated if Mr. Tulliver had said that he was going to send Tom to the Lord Chancellor; for uncle Pullet belonged to that extinct class of British yeoman who, dressed in good broadcloth, paid high rates and taxes, went to church, and ate a particularly good dinner on Sunday, without dreaming that the British constitution in Church and State had a traceable origin any more than the solar system and the fixed stars.† (source)
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