All 7 Uses of
obscure
in
The Golden Apples
- The reason orphans were the way they were lay first in nobody's watching them, Nina thought, for she felt obscurely like a trespasser.
Story 4 (definition 1) *obscurely = in a manner that is not clearly understood
- He gave Easter's heel the tenderest, obscurest little brush, with something of nigger persuasion about it.
Story 4 (definition 1)obscurest = least visible or less understandable
- Standing in the brown that cut them off where they waited, ankle-deep, waist-deep, knee-deep, chin-deep, they made a little V, with Miss Moody in front and partly obscuring their vision with her jerky butterfly cap.
Story 4 (definition 2) *obscuring = blocking (making less visible)
- Nevertheless a face from nowhere floated straight into that helpless irony and contemplated the world of his inward gaze, a dark full-face, obscure and obedient-looking as a newsprint face, looking outward from its cap of dark hair and a dark background--all shadow and softness, like a blurred spot on Jones Street.†
Story 6 (definition 2)
- The now calming ocean, the pounding of a thousand gentlenesses, went on into darkness and obscurity.†
Story 6 (definition 2)
- Moving around her, a lady watered the ferns and evened the shades in the parlor, then watered and evened again, as if some obscure sums were being balanced and checked.†
Story 7 (definition 2)
- Juba laughed in an obscure glee.
Story 7 (definition 1)obscure = not clearly seen, understood, or expressed