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There’s a 2022 documentary called “Lynch/Oz” that ruminates on the ties between the befuddling obscurantist and the eternal blockbuster.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

The course instructor, Daniel Gabriel, a young poet, found her student verse, as he told Spiegelman, “overwritten, obscurantist and difficult.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

Even his most devoted followers sometimes wonder whether his obscurantist tweets are serious or are made in jest.

From New York Times • May 10, 2022

"We, lawyers, do not want a communitarian and obscurantist judiciary," they wrote in the French publication Marianne.

From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2022

Possibly many people are ready to cry out upon me as an obscurantist for venturing to doubt a genial confidence in all literature simply as such.

From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Roe, Frederick William