obnubilate造句

• Apparently the press secretary is a reader of Ehrlich's elitist dictionary, or is a fan of Kilpatrick's delicious column, or _ most fittingly for one working in his beclouded state _ has been perusing Robert Burton's 1621 " Anatomy of Melancholy " : " So doth this melancholy vapour obnubilate the mind ."
• The only citation in my handy-dandy Dow Jones database is in the word column by James J . Kilpatrick, The Writer's Art, reviewing a book by Eugene Ehrlich titled " The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate . " " I intend to put in my album such collector's items as patulous ( spreading, open, gaping ) and obnubilate ( cloud over, darken, obscure ), " my brother Kilpo writes.