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
You may take ham to appease hunger, or you may take it to prevent the obtrusion of that vulgar sensation.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Walter Paget
The obtrusion is brought about in many other ways.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
