| The rocks and soil continued to shift until they had achieved an obscurely manlike semblance. |
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| We're both obscurely addicted to odd sports, both had empires, are bellicose, mistrustful of foreigners, and are passionate gardeners. |
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| Your typical correspondent carps about a mistranslation, a geographical inaccuracy, an obscure word obscurely misused. |
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| The site provides its phone number only obscurely and encourages all inquiries by E-mail. |
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| Meanwhile every man remains to himself an unsolved puzzle, however obscurely he may perceive it. |
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| Precious Angel is a religious song, but obscurely so, where a man is giving spiritual guidance to his girlfriend. |
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| Tegula single, very small, transversely elliptic-obtriangular, obscurely bilobulate at the apex, thin, lamellate. |
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| Who knew our most obscure bits of punctuation also had such obscurely lovely names? |
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| The image hovers obscurely in the imagination of every British prime minister. |
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| Outside these specialised terms for slaves, there are some usages in the colonial newspapers which parallel those of the English press, but perhaps rather more obscurely. |
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| When he touches upon Poe's themes, he does so superficially, or obscurely. |
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| Average, our word for a commonplace mathematical concept, is in fact somewhat obscurely derived from the Arabic word awariya, meaning damaged goods. |
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| The healing relationship and its humanity and justice break down when the HIV-positive person is not being seen in their full particularity, but is being obscurely and distortedly perceived through a film of bias. |
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| This humour is obscurely cryptic in both the literal and figurative sense. |
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| The dragon's responses are given in the form of obscurely worded classical poems written on pieces of paper issued by a 70-year-old villager, Chen Yushan, clad in his blue padded Mao suit. |
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| The book offers many provocative statements, many informative ones, and many that are avoidably erroneous or obscurely brief. |
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| The certainty of this expectation, affirmed by the practice of WTO Members, is reflected, albeit rather obscurely, in the language of Article 4.2 of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. |
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| The medieval city of Cairo, with its gray mosques, seems to have developed through a concatenation of vast expanses of ter¬rain the color of tarnished gold, as if the shapeless earth still aspired obscurely to assume a shape. |
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| The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow. |
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