obtrusion

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This, however, was a different order of obtrusion.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2011

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

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 grand tier at the opera was a semicircle of dazzling dresses, though there was not, as happens in London, any obtrusion of diamonds.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)

I cannot see how it can be contended that the perpetual obtrusion of a life-philosophy of any special kind is other than a fault in art.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George