As a group they should be favorable to a concept of gradual Germanic infiltration although the specialist nature of much of their work, e.g. Seebohm, Gray and Finberg, tends to obscure their sympathies.

It is a difficult task to give novelty to what is old, authority to what is new, brilliance to the common-place, light to the obscure, attraction to the stale, credibility to the doubtful, but nature to all things and all her properties to nature.

In addition to the relatively looser constraints on character and message at lower budgets, the nature of B production lent itself to the noir style for directly economic reasons: dim lighting not only saved on electrical costs but helped cloak cheap sets ( mist and smoke also served the cause ); night shooting was often compelled by hurried production schedules ; plots with obscure motivations and intriguingly elliptical transitions were sometimes the consequence of hastily written scripts, of which there was not always enough time or money to shoot every scene.

Handloaders have the choice to swage but most choose to purchase pre-made jacketed bullets, due to the obscure nature of swaging and the specialized equipment.

The nature and details of the conversion remain obscure.

This motion is the most obscure as it is not physical motion as such, but rather a change in the very nature of the universe.

Due to the nature of the contest, entries often employ strange or unusual tricks, such as using the C preprocessor to do things it was not designed to do, or avoiding commonly-used constructs in the C programming language in favor of much more obscure ways of achieving the same thing.

His films often feature heroes with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who find themselves in conflict with nature.

In any case, explaining these rules might obscure the nature of the game somewhat for a person unfamiliar with it.

His isolation from the vibrant art community in Montmartre, together with his modest nature, ensured that he and his artwork remained obscure for a number of years.

This leads Theodore to declare that ' I am not my own light to myself '; the nature of our own minds is highly obscure.

In connexion with this Biran treats most of the obscure problems which arise in dealing with conscious experience, such as the mode by which the organism is cognized, the mode by which the organism is distinguished from extra-organic things, and the nature of those general ideas by which the relations of things are known to us – cause, power, force, etc.

Passing over the appeal to final causes involved in this passage, as well as the assumption that the " moral sense " has had no growth or history, but was " implanted " in man exactly as found among the more civilized races — an assumption common to both Hutcheson and Butler — his use of the term " sense " tends to obscure the real nature of the process of moral judgement.

There is also an obscure reference in The Prophecy of Berchán hinting that King Máel Coluim mac Cináeda of Scotland may have been active in Islay and Arran at about this time, emphasising the potentially fluid nature of Scandinavian, Norse-Gael and Scots influence during this period.

Perhaps because of the obscure nature of the lyrics there have been many suggestions for their significance, particularly over the meaning of the phrase ' Pop!

Probably the religious opinions of Irving, originally in some respects more catholic and truer to human nature than generally prevailed in ecclesiastical circles, had gained breadth and comprehensiveness from his intercourse with Samuel Taylor Coleridge but gradually his chief interest in Coleridge's philosophy centred round what was mystical and obscure, and to it in all likelihood may be traced his initiation into the doctrine of millenarianism.

Due to its obscure nature and the many works by Hegel that followed its publication, even the structure or core theme of the book itself remains contested.

On Heidegger's account, traditional language, logical systems, and beliefs obscure Dasein's nature from itself.

There is a genetic component but its nature has been obscure.

The Roman writer Plutarch examined the nature of this obscure goddess in his Roman Questions, deriving Mana from the Latin verb manare, " to flow ".

Resolving these inconsistencies and complications is difficult chiefly because of the ambiguous and obscure nature of Quirinus ' cult and worship ; while Mars and Jupiter remained the most popular of all Roman gods, Quirinus was a more archaic and opaque deity, diminishing in importance over time.

Anomalous Planes-Planes of an obscure nature.

The extent or nature of his relationships with women is obscure.

However, the molecular nature of these " activities " remained obscure until the work of Kendall Smith and his team at Dartmouth Medical School.

These stories frequently show the activities of many members of a police force or government agency in their efforts to apprehend a killer who is selecting victims on some obscure basis.

They may spend inordinate amounts of time on unpopular, obscure, or non-mainstream activities, which are generally either highly technical or relating to topics of fiction or fantasy, to the exclusion of more mainstream activities.

However, his activities after this famous stunt are as obscure as his origins.

Kunz's background in statistics is also often the source of amusement, as he is seemingly able to deliver, from memory, obscure statistical information about the activities of criminals.

This infrastructure constantly evolves and attempts to become as obscure ( invisible ) as possible and more perceivable ( user-friendly ) by the end user, having as a superior goal the development of totally human-centred systems, that is systems where the user interface will be integrated in objects of everyday use and the communication with the human will be accomplished in terms of daily activities.

Nenna's activities in the first decade of the 17th century are obscure, but he most likely was in Naples from 1606 to 1607 and in Rome in 1608.

Till date, his real identity and activities remain obscure.

His Aetia (" Causes "), another rare longer work surviving only in tattered papyrus fragments and quotations in later authors, was a collection of elegiac poems in four books, dealing with the foundation of cities, obscure religious ceremonies, unique local traditions apparently chosen for their oddity, and other customs, throughout the Hellenic world In the first three books at least, the formula appears to ask a question of the Muse, of the form, " Why, on Paros, do worshippers of the Charites use neither flutes nor crowns?

Such usages typically obscure the crucial aspect of a leitmotif, as opposed to the plain musical motif or theme-that it is transformable and recurs in different guises throughout the piece in which it occurs.

The German armoured cruisers had the advantage of being to windward of a freshening north-west breeze, causing the funnel smoke of the British to obscure their target practically throughout the action.

Variations on this have spread throughout the internet, often focusing on other obscure states, such as Nebraska, Idaho and Wyoming.

The obscure language, inside jokes, and ambiguity of Ladies Almanack have kept critics arguing about whether it is an affectionate satire or a bitter attack, but Barnes herself loved the book and reread it throughout her life.

Usama's life in Hisn Kayfa is obscure, but he travelled throughout the region, and probably wrote most of his works there.

By 1993, the previously obscure game of pogs, which had almost been forgotten, was now played throughout the world.

The Elvira character rapidly evolved from obscure cult figure to a lucrative brandname and " Mistress of all Media ", spawning many products throughout the 1980s and 1990s including Halloween costumes, comic books, action figures, trading cards, pinball machines, Halloween decor, model kits, calendars, perfume and dolls.

A variation of this story can also be read in Fredegar, and similar tales continue to crop up repeatedly throughout obscure, mediaeval-era European literature.

Calypso was sung throughout the English speaking Caribbean, and was used by the poor as a platform for social and political commentary, using complex metaphors and folkloric references to obscure their meaning to outsiders.

The foundation of Constance is obscure, though it was the largest diocese in Germany throughout the Merovingian and early Carolingian era.

Alfau earned a living as a translator ; his sparse fictional and poetic output remained obscure throughout most of his life.

Blount remained an amateur scholar of law throughout his life, and published Nomolexicon: a law dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute, ancient or modern lawes ( 1670 ; third edition, with additions by W. Nelson, 1717 ), to aid the profession that he was unable to practice.

Meanwhile, Daala had Luke Skywalker, leader of the Order, exiled from Coruscant, blaming him for Jacen Solo's actions throughout the course of Legacy of the Force ; so Luke and his son, Ben, search the more obscure regions of the galaxy in order to follow the trail that Jacen took in his five-year Force-searching sojourn following the Yuuzhan Vong War.

This, of course, had the effect of advertising a previously obscure book to people throughout Scotland and many proceeded to buy a copy and to read it carefully.

" In an interview, Smith said he had evolved a strong fanbase, which started with his more obscure earlier work and has since followed him throughout his career.