obtuseness

In building their ambitiously archetypal saga, Koorzen and Harwood have pushed so far into the realm of the unconscious that their film becomes not only opaque, but obtuse.

The multi-step process with baseball writers and then the Veterans Committee is model of obtuseness.

It was also (p. 255) supposed valuable in cases of heaviness and obtuseness of intellect.

"What you are wearing now is pretty enough for anywhere," declared Sam Brewster, with masculine obtuseness.

I distrust all intellectual pretension that announces itself by obtuseness of palate!

"The flippancy of the half-educated is more obstructive to science than the obtuseness of the ignorant," said he.

She ached to tell her doleful brother what, with true masculine obtuseness, he never in the world would guess.