obtrusion

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In lacelike prose, with just enough homely obtrusions to prevent his art from seeming precious, Updike tells of a young man's epiphany.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here and there one edge of the ruptured skin rose over the other, revealing its fatty layers, and little obtrusions like miniature bunches of red grapes forced up from the fissure.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Wilson felt at once the harmony of beautiful things that have lived long together without obtrusions of ugliness or change.

From Alexander's Bridge by Cather, Willa Sibert

These obtrusions of the jackal always bring me bad luck.

From The Far Horizon by Malet, Lucas

For our desires or aversions, or the obtrusions of surrounding bodies, dissever the sensitive and associate tribes of ideas in our waking hours by introducing those of irritation and volition amongst them.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus