All 4 Uses of
obscure
in
Misery
- Her smile suddenly collapsed into a narrow watchfulness he didn't like much, it was like discovering a deep crevasse almost obscured by summer flowers
Chpt 1 (definition 1) *obscured = hidden
- The place smelled musty, unaired, obscurely tired.†
Chpt 1 *
- What is it Thomas Hardy says in Jude the Obscure?
Chpt 2 (definition 2) *obscure = not known to many people; or undistinguished
- Looking at those pictures had given him a feeling which was strange yet eerily intangible--it had been like looking at photographs of his own imagination, and he knew that from that moment on, whenever he tried to imagine Misery's little combination parlor and study, Mrs Roman D. ('Virginia') Sandpiper's Polaroids would leap immediately into his mind, obscuring imagination with their cheery but one-dimensional concreteness.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)obscuring = making less visible or understandable