Then it was rain, wind, obscureness of gloom, and lightning.

It might be that the site was chosen due to its obscureness from direct airborne and seaborne observation by nearby hills.

Something quick and subtle ran through my veins; something that for a few moments seemed to burn away the obscureness which blurs our thought.

Third, he touches on important scriptural controversies, as usual avoiding the pitfalls of obscureness and making what could easily have been dull entertaining.

As Buck slid along with the obscureness of a gliding shadow, his nose was jerked suddenly to the side as though a positive force had gripped and pulled it.

The rambling obscureness of her full-evening "Interior With Seven Figures" (shown last month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music) did not diminish the stunning power of the work's central duet.

His version brings together the ironic obscureness of Sigmar Polke, early modernist sincerity and a Pop Artlike illustrative methodicalness that is so complex it might be called paint-by-numbers to the nth power.

They risk nostalgia and obscureness, but they refreshingly invoke photography as a solitary art, a vehicle for a personal poetry and a conduit of light's infinite wonders, while adding a mildly deranged little twist to the lengthening history of set-up photography.

At the same time a fourth show, of work by Silvia Kolbowski at Postmasters Gallery (through Saturday), argues for a more old-fashioned, no-frills Conceptualism, an art in which written texts dominate and one that wears its obscureness proudly on its sleeve.