(My memory of our Amazonian teacher Mrs. Dietz, confronted with the rebelliousness and general obtrusiveness of six-foot-tall farm boys with no love of book learning or even of sitting still for more than a few minutes at a time, approaches the succinctness of Faulkner's terse encomium for the black housekeeper, Dilsey: They endured.) ❋ Unknown (2010)
The ridiculous thought of citizens being hauled off by the label police has been the stuff of comedy for years, the crowning symbol for silly, over-the-top government obtrusiveness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It can't be the obtrusiveness of recording devices, as seemed to concern the court in ❋ Unknown (2010)
If you are unable to pray or even think during Mass due to the obtrusiveness of the music, the music has become the 'main attraction' and detracts from worship. ❋ Margaret (2009)
If the Beeb can't bring itself to discuss the in-your-face obtrusiveness of Islamic attire, perhaps one of the more enlightened among them could make a programme about the 1936 Public Order Act which made it an offence to wear a political uniform which was aimed at a group with an ideology not dissimilar to that of devout Muslims - Mosely's Blackshirts. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Merely to say that Peirce was extremely fond of placing things into groups of three, of trichotomies, and of triadic relations, would fail miserably to do justice to the overwhelming obtrusiveness in his philosophy of the number three. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In Sartre's What is Literature? this apparent disdain for the materiality of painting seems at odds with another aesthetic principle of the existentialists, namely, the capacity of art to witness the obtrusiveness of the world, and, in exceptional moments of aesthetic communion, its inhuman beauty. ❋ Deranty, Jean-Philippe (2009)
As we have noted, some of the best-known passages in their literary writings also describe moments in which the obtrusiveness of the world is overcome, yielding fleeting yet sublime experiences of sensuous communion with nature and others. ❋ Deranty, Jean-Philippe (2009)
If we can spread pavement everywhere in one hundred years or so, we can also lessen its obtrusiveness in the same amount of time. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The people looked at her with tender interest as the deserted girl-wife — without obtrusiveness, and without vulgarity; but she was ill prepared for scrutiny in any shape. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So long as they continued to confine their obtrusiveness to staring, and communicating to each other their opinions respecting my complexion, and dress, and accoutrements, I philosophically resigned myself in silence for their amusement; but when they pressed on me, barely allowing me to proceed, a few vigorous and rapid slashes right and left with my serviceable thong, soon cleared the track. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
With regard to the large and savage institution of prostitution, which still lies as the cancer embedded in the heart of all our modern civilised societies, this is obviously and nakedly the case; the wealth of the male as compared to the female being, with hideous obtrusiveness, its foundation and source of life. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They asked questions, scrutinized everything and everybody; looked around, ferreted about, and at once attracted universal attention, some by their suspicious watchfulness, others by their excessive obtrusiveness. ❋ Unknown (2003)
So I told him how bad it was, or at least how bad I thought it was; but I was to learn my education about my own obtrusiveness was ongoing. ❋ James Lee Burke (2002)
They buzz around thee also with their praise: obtrusiveness, is their praise. ❋ Unknown (2001)
He said it was unfortunate that the central government plan to transform traditional leadership into a component of its "conveyor belt of power" was unwittingly assisted by the obtrusiveness of some liberal intellectuals of non-African extraction. ❋ Unknown (1996)
Boys are so [obtruse]. They are always [square] instead of [round]. ❋ Treekiller789 (2013)
Look at these [OBTRUSE] [columns] blocking my walking [route]! ❋ Laura (2005)
