Though cell phones ring intrusively at adjacent tables, pop music plays overhead, and the wait staff breeze back and forth, none of these professionals seems to feel the slightest bit uncomfortable with praying so openly. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
The low-key press conference was attended almost exclusively by Scandinavian journalists who, respectful of Semenya's privacy, were careful not to probe too intrusively into her past. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Equally turned off by intrusively moralizing Republicans and tax-and-spend Democrats, independents lurch with the wind. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Once Twitter can find a way of ensuring that it's impossible or, at least, really difficult to avoid the ads then that's when they will start appearing more intrusively. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I did not think it was as good as The Kite Runner; the writing seemed much less spontaneous, the history lessons for the reader intrusively didactic, the plot pretty obvious (and even a bit twee in places). ❋ Nwhyte (2010)
If you think that immigration is a pressing problem, then the place to enforce it is in areas of life that are already regulated pretty intrusively: border crossings, employment, landlord/tenant relations. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ron Perlman, by contrast, is intrusively grotesque as another murderous monster, though the way he's photographed suggests that it's not his fault. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)
A girlfriend calls to sing "Happy Birthday" when Chico discovers his guest, who then makes himself intrusively at home, with a surplus of puppy-faced charm. ❋ Steve Dollar (2010)
But it's decent enough, and is interesting for the way it draws on various different cultural roots without too much disharmony - the Summer Tree of the title being a particularly good example (Neil Gaiman uses it in American Gods as well, but more intrusively). ❋ Mizkit (2009)
It seems bizarre given that planning/zoning seems to be so intrusively regulated otherwise. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Further, anything he sees can be used as a wedge to search deeper, farther, and more intrusively. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There have long been retrospective series, such as the Sessions double CDs on Union Square Music, or Mastercuts' Classic series, which tend to take a broad overview that presumes everyone listening is coming to this music for the first time not to mention that several volumes of the Sessions series are intrusively, and badly, DJ-mixed. ❋ Unknown (2011)
With any luck, the PR fallout from the ABC-Cablevision clash will dissuade other companies from escalating such disputes so publicly and so intrusively. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In Mr. Hewitt's experience, it was not uncommon for parents of high-profile players to be intrusively involved in the entire process. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Indeed, my impression is that the current season has had more links to Old Who than ever, yet not so intrusively as to make it incomprehensible for those who are new to it. ❋ Nwhyte (2008)
Parents probably figure that with email they can reach out anytime, a bit less intrusively, and are more hesitant to interrupt work or social life with a call. ❋ Barbara K. Hofer (2010)
