obscurity

Levitsky attended Stanford and then UC Berkeley, and likely would have spent his career in relative obscurity, writing academic tomes about political parties in Argentina.

"This could have been a chance for a newcomer to have their own Beatles moment - rising from obscurity in real-time".

He wants now, he says, to fade into obscurity, his power and influence gone.

Notwithstanding praise for Bates’ “powerhouse of a performance,” the film seemed on a glide path to obscurity.

Since President William McKinley’s once-upon-a-time mediocrity was exceeded only by his present-day obscurity, few observers grasped the real significance of Trump’s remarks.