obtrusion
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This, however, was a different order of obtrusion.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011
The obtrusion of these two dead women upon Poe's subliminal nature is seen in the self-frustration of incipient amours before his marriage with a "consumptive angel" of 13, Virginia Clemm.
From Time Magazine Archive
Equally important is inappropriateness: "the linking of disparates, the collision of different mental spheres, the obtrusion into one context of what belongs in another."
From Time Magazine Archive
Well-meant efforts to save the heathen in a spiritual way have sometimes resulted in their physical destruction, through the stealthy obtrusion of the pests of civilization.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Such a very remarkable obtrusion enchained the attention of us all.
From Mrs. Fitz by J. C. Snaith
