Less clever are rear seats that won't fold completely flat, a high boot sill and front screen pillars that obscure your view through roundabouts.

Those scented pine-tree things could obscure your view of oncoming traffic, apparently.

They're bound to be a spectacular sight, but may obscure your view of the pageant itself.

Not directly behind me, where my bulk and hair would obscure her view of my screen, but behind me at an angle, at my four o'clock.

But the county have allayed fears that the development will not obscure the view of the iconic castle.

Large amounts of sediment obscure any vision in the river.

He blamed the low, bright sun for obscuring his vision, adding he was 'very contrite about the consequences'.

While irritating initially, within a day or so, you'll realise they are obscuring your vision for the next chapter of your life.

By 17 he was legally blind, with blurry spots obscuring his vision in the centre of both eyes.

It obscures your vision, as though it were sitting between your brain and your eyes, and at once renders you incapable of processing thoughts and unable to stay calm.

For some obscure reason, many agents cannot resist including a load of old guff in write-ups.

He took a beta blocker, putting the question of hope aside, and for some obscure reason felt quite happy.

Yet a little more than two years after he'd taken up the job he quit, citing obscure reasons about not wanting to alter the ensemble's 'musical culture'.

After less than two months of operation, production was shut down for obscure reasons.

The effect may be very grand, but to make an otherwise logical reader accept the process must depend on giving him obscure reasons for wishing it so.

It might help to clarify one obscure reference.

This book should carry a health warning: spend more than five minutes between its luxuriously rough-cut pages and you might find yourself stockpiling obscure reference works.

The obscure reference was met with stunned silence.

That, too, was marked by obscure references to past conferences; to articles and sub-clauses of previous resolutions.

Scholars who spend their lives studying them still argue over their ambiguities, literary allusions and obscure references.

This obscure rule dated to the late 1970s.

More generally, his proposals sought to untangle a whole series of obscure rules on customary landownership, and provide clarity to landowners.

Authentic performance of such music must rely on the best available musicological scholarship to interpret the difficult and obscure rules governing when musica ficta should be introduced.

Dull, boring and obscure song choices.

We injected the set with so many odd and obscure songs - some of them nobody had ever really heard - yet we still got an immense reaction.

The dark humour of the lyrics also changed to more dreamlike and obscure songs.

There are several other more obscure songs by this name.

Parks re-arranged and re-produced obscure songs and calypso classics.

Amaze your family and friends by becoming an expert in an obscure sport.

For most of us our attention will wander, particularly from some of the more obscure sports that have so absorbed us.

Viewers will have restricted free access, however, and will no longer be able to watch some of the more obscure sports online.

They hoped the directory, which would feature obscure sports as well as mainstream ones, would produce revenue by attracting advertising to the site.

Athletes have talked of watching their compatriots winning medals on the telly, in disparate and sometimes obscure sports, and feeling a sense of pride and confidence.

Looking up, the writer sees the gathering fog obscure the sun until it disappears.

Then a shadow of doubt passes over his face, as though a small cloud had briefly obscured the sun.

However, the amount of sunshine was well below average (12 per cent) as thick cloud obscured the sun and the heavy rains cooled temperatures.

Volcanic winters are caused by volcanic ash and droplets of sulfuric acid obscuring the sun's light, usually after a volcanic eruption.

It then seemed to increase in size, rose from the earth and ascended into the sky, where it obscured the sun with its brilliance.

Searching for early life requires understanding—and correcting for—the factors that may obscure the truth.

All of which are fair enough, but obscure the truth.

But the injunction to mimic these professionals by analysing yields can obscure the truth that yields rise when property values fall.

Justified anger at the excesses of bankers should not obscure the truth that an efficient economy involves risk-taking and the possibility of loss.

Science, in its constant breaking down and measuring, obscures the truth that there are not multitudes of events - just one event.

Today, a minute on such an obscure topic would be considered too long for most viewers.

With increased collection and study of the postal markings originating from such offices, the body of literature on this obscure topic may grow.

It's a vast jamboree of meetings on obscure topics and pleading special interests.

Because his favorite subjects include codes, puzzles, treasure hunts, secretive organizations and academic lectures on obscure topics, he tends to incorporate those into his novels.

As radio royalties are paid predominantly to the writer and not the performer, the recipients of such bonuses are often relatively obscure musicians.

The move backfired, thrusting the relatively obscure publication into the international spotlight and sparking a nationwide debate.

Although they are a relatively obscure species, the mussels are on the same international endangered list as the giant panda, rhinoceros and tiger.

Beautifully presented and skilfully curated, the exhibits have been chosen with an eye to balancing objects and portraits, the relatively obscure alongside the more famous.

A relatively obscure aspect of the sculptor's work, which helps explain how he thought and why.