obtuseness

Underscoring the grotesque moral obtuseness from the convention stage was the joyful display of generations as the president praised and embraced his offspring.

He plays the victim vividly and is quite adept at showing the obtuseness of a know-it-all.

LadyBird’s question infuriates both her mother and her sister with its obtuseness.

The assurance with which Woods delivers Lauren’s jeremiads makes them funny, but the character is bearable because his guileless hypocrisy is also right on the surface — he constantly reveals himself to be guilty of exactly the kind of narrow-minded obtuseness he sees in everyone else.

“One needs an unbelievable degree of obtuseness, cruelty, and even barbarity to not feel at least some empathy for children dying on hospital floors, to a father crying over the body of his child, to an infant covered in the dust of his bombed house, looking in vain for someone in the world, for people living for two months in terror, in despair and with nothing left in their lives; for the hungry, the sick, the disabled and the dispossessed of the Gaza Strip,” he wrote in early January.