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The obscure and extravagant imagery has led to a wide variety of interpretations: historicist interpretations see in Revelation a broad view of history ; preterist interpretations treat Revelation as mostly referring to the events of the apostolic era ( 1st century ), or -- at the latest -- the fall of the Roman Empire ; futurists believe that Revelation describes future events ; and idealist or symbolic interpretations consider that Revelation does not refer to actual people or events, but is an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil.
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In this general sense, occultation applies to the visual scene observed from low-flying aircraft ( or computer-generated imagery ) wherein foreground objects obscure distant dynamically, as the scene changes over time.
' The symbolism was not easily understood, but on the other hand it was earthy, filled with obscure but marvelous imagery ... I felt it had a lot of value and was very different from Dylan's output till then.
( Much of the imagery echoes an obscure French music video that came out in 1988.
Latini proceeds in obscure imagery to foretell Dante's future.
Her early style, in particular, used " obscure polysyllables, formal syntax and lush imagery divided critics and daunted many readers ".
The lyrics speak for themselves ... No imagery, no obscure references.
It displays the ambivalence, eroticism, and obscure imagery that are characteristic of the Mannerist period, and of Bronzino's master Pontormo.
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The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.
Black powder had many disadvantages as a propellant ; it has relatively low power, requiring large amounts of powder to fire projectiles, and created thick clouds of white smoke that would obscure the targets, betray the positions of guns and make aiming impossible.
Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").
This is an obscure prophecy, but in combination with other passages, it has been interpreted to mean that the " prince who is to come " will make a seven-year covenant with Israel that will allow the rebuilding of the temple and the reinstitution of sacrifices, but “ in the middle of the week ,” he will break the agreement and set up an idol of himself in the temple and force people to worship it — the “ abomination of desolation .” Paul writes:
A similar system has been proposed for a few historical runes ( e. g. p ᛈ and w ᚹ as variants of b ᛒ ), but is in any case much more obscure.
Lutz was also the former editor of the now defunct Quarterly Review of Doublespeak, which examines ways that jargon has polluted the public vocabulary with phrases, words and usages of words designed to obscure the meaning of plain English.
The etymology of the name is obscure, but ' the one who illuminates the world ' has been proposed.
The name Hallinskiði is obscure, but has resulted in a series of attempts at deciphering it.
This has tended to obscure the major events and political trends of his term in office, especially his role in maintaining and expanding Australia's military commitment to the Vietnam War.
The Sumerian historical record remains obscure until the Early Dynastic period, when a now deciphered syllabary writing system was developed, which has allowed archaeologists to read contemporary records and inscriptions.
It has been claimed that the prose of Principles of Knowledge was so obscure that it also impeded the acceptance of Hutton's geological theories.
Grimm's results have been greatly modified by the wider range of comparison and improved methods of investigation that now characterize linguistics, and many questions he raised will probably remain obscure, but his book's influence has been profound.
In Niven's obscure story The Color of Sunfire it has entire continents covered with Slaver sunflowers ( bred as defense for Thrint manors, they focus sunlight using silver leaves as parabolic reflectors ), giving it an appearance from orbit of having " silver eyes ".
Pokey has been referenced twice in the Hitman series of video games: in Hitman: Contracts as an obscure, esoteric easter egg, and more directly in Hitman: Blood Money, where an overheard conversation between guards has one inviting the other to look at the comics on a computer.
The term " cubit " in this context is obscure ; it has nothing to do with distance along either a straight line or an arc, does not apply to celestial distances, and has nothing to do with the gnōmōn.
Traditionally the windows of town pubs were of smoked or frosted glass to obscure the clientele from the street but in the 1990s and after in the UK and other countries there has been a move towards clear glass, in keeping with brighter interior décors.
The SPR was the first organisation of its kind in the world, its stated purpose being " to approach these varied problems without prejudice or prepossession of any kind, and in the same spirit of exact and unimpassioned enquiry which has enabled science to solve so many problems, once not less obscure nor less hotly debated.
Taiwan has used Wade – Giles for decades as the de facto standard, co-existing with several official but obscure romanizations in succession, namely, Gwoyeu Romatzyh ( 1928 ), MPS II ( 1986 ), and Tongyong pinyin ( 2000 ).
Despite the preeminence of Tikunei haZohar and despite the topmost priority of Torah study in Judaism, much of the Zohar has been relatively obscure and unread in the Jewish world in recent times, particularly outside of Israel and outside of Chasidic groups.
In Polish, the word jankes can refer to any US citizen, has little pejorative connotation if at all, and its use is somewhat obscure ( it is mainly used to translate the English word Yankee in a less formal context, e. g. in a movie about the American Civil War ).
As has been said, the origins of the link between Dál Riata in Scotland and Ireland are obscure.
It has been proposed that some of the more obscure kings of Dál Riata mentioned in the Annals of Ulster, such as Fiannamail ua Dúnchado and Donncoirce may have been kings of Irish Dál Riata.
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The exact events preceding the battle are obscure, with contradictory accounts in the sources, but all agree that William led his army from his castle and advanced towards the enemy.
Later, taxation and regulations governing the ingredients of alcoholic beverages led to commercial mead becoming a more obscure beverage until recently.
The exact events preceding the battle are obscure, with contradictory accounts in the sources, but all agree that William led his army from his castle and advanced towards the enemy.
Athens and its dialect remained relatively obscure until its constitutional changes led to democracy in 594 BC, the start of the classical period and the rise of Athenian influence.
A more obscure word that is sometimes interpreted as ' hag ' is the Irish síle, which has led some to speculate on a connection between the Cailleach and the stonecarvings of Sheela na Gigs.
It was a member of the also extinct order Multituberculata, and led its obscure and plant-eating existence in the company of dinosaurs.
For this reason Amnesty International reports, " Inadequate official data on the crimes committed in Chihuahua, particularly accurate figures on the exact number of murders and abductions of girls and women, has led to disputes around the issues that obscure the quest for justice.
At the end of the year it was defeated, but the situation was still obscure, because the parties led by Robertson and Parkes were nearly equal.
Although medical texts like these ( written partly in Latin to obscure the sexual details ) were not widely read by the general public, they did lead to the rise of Magnus Hirschfeld's Scientific Humanitarian Committee, which campaigned from 1897 to 1933 against anti-sodomy laws in Germany, as well as a much more informal, unpublicized movement among British intellectuals and writers, led by such figures as Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds.
And in the 1770s the construction of a toll road passing through the hitherto obscure village of Graitney led to Gretna Green becoming synonymous with romantic elopements.
Although most of the Jewish people, especially the wealthy families, were to be found in Babylonia, the existence they led there, under the successive rules of the Achaemenids, the Seleucids, the Parthians, and the Sassanians, was obscure and devoid of political influence.
Almost a hundred years on the events that led to Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford initially leasing the lands at The Lee to William Plaistowe in 1635 and later selling the land to the Plaistowe family are obscure.
The Charter led to an obscure decree of Stephen ( 1135-1154 ), the statutum decretum that established where there was no son, daughters would inherit.
Warwick held the post of Captain of Calais, and late in 1458, he had led ships from Calais in attacks on merchant ships from Lübeck and Spain, on obscure grounds of acknowledgement of English sovereignty in the Channel.
In September 1773, an obscure hunter named Daniel Boone led a group of about 50 emigrants in the first attempt by British colonists to establish a settlement in Kentucky County, Virginia.
Or again, the true meaning and purpose of a book often became obscure in the lapse of centuries, and led to false interpretations.
According to his father's biographer, he led a rather " obscure, undistinguished and uninteresting life ".
It is widely considered to be one of his most obscure works and has led to many conflicting interpretations.
He sat in the Upper House as a Liberal and served in various positions including Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate and led the Liberals ' filibuster against the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax forcing Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to use an obscure section of the Constitution to appoint extra Senators and ensure passage of the measure.
The ideologies associated with ( Romantic ) Nationalism of the 19th and 20th centuries never really caught on in the Netherlands, and this, together with being a relatively mono-ethnic society up until the late 1950s, has led to a relatively obscure use of the terms nation and ethnicity as both were largely overlapping in practice.
The obscure nature of the Organization's activities throughout Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts II have led reviewers to describe them as an " ominous " group that " seems to be intent on guiding Sora and his friends to accomplish some dark purpose ".
National-Anarchism in the U. S. remains a relatively obscure movement, made up of probably fewer than 200 individuals, led by Andrew Yeoman of the Bay Area National Anarchists ( BANA ), based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a couple of other groups in Northern California and Idaho.
An on-court altercation between the relatively obscure Pachulia and Celtics star Kevin Garnett led one writer to dub Pachulia " Balboa " after the lead character from the Rocky series of movies .< ref >
There was also criticism of the methods of Peter the Great by which he promoted " obscure people " and in turn led to a state crisis.
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