Sentences with 'obscurity'

Example sentences and phrases with the word obscurity and other words derived from it.

« While the Hellenistic world flourished in Greece and the Middle East, and Rome began its long rise from obscurity to power, most of Western Europe was dominated by the Celts. »
« Anthony would have remained in obscurity had it not been for a book about him written by Bishop Athanasius, "The Life of Anthony", which celebrated Anthony's rejection of the material world and embrace of divine contemplation. »
« Emerging from the obscurity of a resolutely non-noble past, the Medici eventually became the papacy's official bankers, acquiring great wealth as a result. »
« The greatest of European powers in the 16th century, Spain had long since sunk into obscurity, commercial weakness and backwardness. Its society in 1920 was much the same as it had been a century earlier: most of the country was populated by poor farmers and rural labourers, and an alliance of the army, the Catholic Church and old noble families still controlled the government in Madrid. »

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