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 most gifted, refined, and elevated natures are most likely to have this experience; and such natures shrink with unconquerable repugnance from all obtrusion, or betrayal, of their inmost experiences.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
I knew that she wept, and wept bitterly; but her self-command was so great as to prevent any undue obtrusion of her griefs on others.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
