All 15 Uses of
obscure
in
The Bourne Identity
- The Bourne had meant nothing, the J. Bourne still meaningless, but in the combination Jason and Bourne, obscure tumblers locked into place.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)obscure = not clearly seen, understood, or expressed
- Three equal triangles, abstract renditions of chalet roofs in a valley of snow so deep the lower stories were obscured.
Chpt 6 (definition 2)obscured = hid or made less visible or understandable
- A dark outline darker than the wall, an intrusion of black on lesser black-obscure, faint, barely discernible, but there.
Chpt 9 (definition 1)obscure = not clearly seen, understood, or expressed
- He walked toward the obscure black shape, each step, each limp a study in silence.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- Oh, I suppose it's there in some obscure psychological theory somewhere, two reasonably intelligent people thrown into hell together and crawling out … together.
Chpt 10 (definition 3) *obscure = not known to many people
- His thinning dark hair was singed and brushed to obscure the bald spots; his eyes were encased in small rolls of flesh, attesting to long hours with good wine.
Chpt 11 (definition 2) *obscure = hide
- The magazine was folded open to a page on which there was a sketch of a bearded man, the lines rough, inconclusive, as if drawn from an obscure description.
Chpt 13 (definition 1) *obscure = not clearly seen or expressed
- They say they left appropriately obscure messages in the street and lured the man they were convinced was Cain down to the piers, to a fishing boat.†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- But everything else was clouded, obscure, more speculation than fact.†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- Straight ahead was a second figure, barely visible but there, its shape an obscure blot indistinctly outlined by the wash of light from the distant highway.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- Obscurity's important.†
Chpt 27 (definition 2)
- An obscure, faceless clerk, perhaps, who was not a clerk at all but someone else?†
Chpt 29 (definition 2)
- He rolled again, faster, faster, until he smashed into the wall; coiling upward on his knee, trying to focus through the weaving, obscure shadows in the near total darkness.†
Chpt 35 (definition 2)
- There was a window at the front end of the hallway, obscured by a black shade.†
Chpt 35 (definition 2)
- The mists were filling his eyes, shapes and sounds becoming obscured, blurred.†
Chpt 35 (definition 2)