obtrusion
Example Sentences
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This, however, was a different order of obtrusion.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011
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
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
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
An intervention of “vitalistic” principles, directions and so forth, would, we are told, involve a sudden obtrusion and disappearance again of energy-effects which had no efficient cause in the previous phenomena.
From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto
