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
Nothing is so odious as the obtrusion of technic in any work of art.
From Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression by James Francis Cooke
The ponderous mass of material, and the power of the pen, do not compensate for the weary obtrusion of the author's doctrine and design.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
