A thick cloud of smoke obscures the lamps and prevents us at first from distinguishing the details of the scene.
It was formerly said that consanguineous marriage was contrary to the commandments of God; that it offended the natural sentiment of modesty; that it obscures relationship, etc.
That this Darkness is called 'Death' is due to the fact that it obscures the understanding of all souls and thus is harmful to them.
Within five minutes when the curtain of falling drops obscures the landscape to the west of one.
This is the sort of thing that obscures the findings of science not to mention common-sense.
If a gray curtain obscures everything behind it you had better pull your canoe out of the water and hide under it if time is less valuable than a dry skin.
The maimed and distorted language obscures the sense, destroys or debases the poetry, and lessens the general impression of his genius.
Kant, as we have already emphasised, obscures his position by the way in which he frequently speaks of the transcendental unity of apperception as the supreme condition of our experience.
As we have already noted,[472] Kant in the second edition obscures the sequence of his argument by offering in the new transcendental exposition a justification of applied as well as of pure geometry.
But it is introduced quite incidentally by Kant, and obscures quite as much as it clarifies the main argument.
Color is paramount, and its beauty obscures the incongruities of Oriental art.
The Authorized Version unfortunately obscuresthis close connexion between the wording of 2 Peter iii.
In oxidizing flame gives the cobalt reaction which obscures those of [.
Dissolves readily to a bead strongly colored by cobalt, which obscures the lime-reaction.
It is likewise objected against the doctrine of the atonement, that it obscures the freeness and glory of the divine mercy.
Yet, it is the error involved in this sophism which obscures our intellectual vision, and causes so perplexing a darkness to spread itself over the moral order and beauty of the world.
No one would read the sentence with a very clear feeling of this definite movement; in fact, to do so rather obscures the meaning.
Such a division can be justified on several grounds, but it | | remains awkward and obscures the plain fact of rising | | rhythm.
Thicker sheets of rain fly across as the murk of evening increases, which at length entirely obscures the prospect, and cloaks its bleared lights and fires.
The dust that obscures the sky on the plains apparently never reaches this chosen spot, for the magnificent green of the trees is nowhere dimmed.
The dust fills and obscures this vaulted passage where men and horses press, enveloped in the same gloom.
It discharges a large volume of boiling water and the rising steam frequently obscures the road.
Perhaps a week afterward there may be a haze that partly obscures the sun.
That Fortune obscuresthe minds of Men when she would not have them hinder her Designs.
That Fortune obscuresthe minds of Men when she would not have them hinder her designs XXX.
He therefore detracts from the honor due to the Mediator, obscures the greatness of sin, destroys the chief consolation of the pious, and leads them into perpetual doubt.
In the one he escapes appearing too long and lanky in body, and in the other he obscures a lack of becoming inches that tends to give him a dumpy appearance.
By obeying this wilful preference she obscureswhatever delicacy may be in the modelling of her features and brings into conspicuous relief the ugliest lines of her face.
This natural growth obscures a mouth well filled with teeth, which were nature's gift, and the handiwork of no dentist--from whence is kept a constant ejecting of tobacco juice.
Moreover, in the heat of contest, the eye is insensibly drawn to the crown of victory, whose tawdry tinsel glitters through that dust of the ring which obscures Truth's wreath of simple leaves.
The point here seems to be that the use of the senses for pleasure is an abuse and distracts one from the illusion of the world, which itself obscuresour mind from us.
Our rational intellect merely obscures this truth, and consequently we must shut it off, if only for a moment.
He suffers the neglect which necessarily obscuresthose men of genius who misuse their powers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obscures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
