Obscured

He drove easily, hand resting lightly on the gear shift, his expression obscured by the sunglasses he’d pulled from the door pocket. ❋ Deborah Darden Crombie (1994)

Being obscured is the intent to protect the destitute by means testing the benefits. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Utterly obscured is the number that really matters, the absolute benefit (Brawley did not respond to an email requesting comment). ❋ Unknown (2009)

One thing that constant filibustering has obscured is that the Democratic majority in the Senate is actually marginally stronger than their majority in the House. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The writers and stories the Anglophone readers are missing remain obscured for the rest of the world too, since most of the publishers, editors and fans can read their own language and English. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They were neither peaceful nor modest instances of historical agency — in spite of the prevailing social paradigm which rigidly curtailed the scope of women's activities and life choices across the social classes and which persisted well into the twentieth century — and nor were their contributions obscured from the historical record. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Particularly obscured is the experience of the relatively few women who entered the military wing ELAS, a number which rose substantially when the partisans regrouped to form the Dimokratikos Stratos Elladas (Democratic Army of Greece) during the Civil War. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If the new Great Game is obscured from the masses, it is not only that the majority are, while techno-literate, utterly ignorant of the world they live in, peasants in planes with iPods, powerless in a way previous populations never were, but also that they are programmed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The result of these profiles is that working men's domestic obligations and relationships are obscured from the historiography in favor of a model that sees professionalized middle-class culture on one side and radical and violent plebian culture on the other. ❋ Unknown (2006)

What the politicized debates of the past often obscured is the irrefutable fact that all states have human rights problems, and all must be accountable for their shortcomings. ❋ Helen (2006)

But Emma is, as usual, the least reliable reader of Austen's text, and my point in reconstituting what Austen has obscured is to call attention to the extended similarity of the two injured parties at Box Hillunmarried women without incomes, bound to each other by bloodand the conspicuous difference between the two actors who have assumed the right to impose on these paired women as they choose: a privileged woman and a privileged man. ❋ Unknown (2000)

The fact which these papers have so carefully obscured is that the Spanish Government (including the semi-autonomous Catalan Government) is far more afraid of the revolution than of the Fascists. ❋ Unknown (1937)

He said often the problem for broadcasters was that the struggle to say the name obscured the story itself. ❋ By MICHAEL FIELD (2010)

But the children's ability in English obscured the fact that, though born and raised in Indonesia, they were struggling with the Indonesian language, known as Bahasa Indonesia. ❋ NORIMITSU ONISHI (2010)