obtrusion
Example Sentences
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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
Here, then, begin the obtrusion, and the alledged necessity of those boundary walls, against which I have been protesting.
From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Phillips, Richard
His heart gave a little leap at this new and happy thought, and if the remembrance of Amelia came back just at that instant, its obtrusion only made his eyes burn the brighter.
From Her Infinite Variety by Whitlock, Brand
