How To Use Obtuse In A Sentence

At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible to see. Les Miserables
The _first glume_ is chartaceous, obovate-oblong, obtuse, many-nerved (thirteen or more), thinly ciliate with long hairs and with A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
In contrast, a strongly obtuse apical angle is associated with an incurved ventral beak that is appressed to the dorsal umbo, resulting in the delthyrium being partly obscured.
Body about the size of a common goose; bill short, vaulted, obtuse, two-thirds of which is covered by an expanded cere of a pale greenish-yellow colour, the tip of the bill being black, arcuated, and truncated. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Page 394 coursing through the green plains, and dark promontories, or obtuse projections of the side-long acclivities, alternately advancing or receding on the verge of the illumined native fields, to the utmost extent of sight; the summits of the acclivities afford, besides the forest trees already recited, Halesia, Ptelea, Circis, Cornus Florida and Amorpha. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti

Another mode of making a springe, which is a capital plan for catching almost any bird, whether it be a percher or a runner, is this: Procure an elastic wand (hazel or osier makes the best) of about 3 ft. 6 in. long, to the top of which tie a piece of twisted horsehair about 3 in. in length; to the free end attach a little piece of wood of 2 in. in length, by the middle, cutting one end to an obtuse point, flattened on the top and underneath. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
There is nothing wrong with making money, but are we supposed to be sorry for the inept and obtuse customer care services (ever look at a invoice from a insurance company?) and compassion less “death panels” of the health insurance industry and the thoughtless, cavalier and deceptive practices of the financial dealings on wall street (GS and the Greek economy comes to mind)? Think Progress » Rep. McCotter complains that Obama ‘demonizes’ Wall Street and insurance companies.
Not trying to demonize him or - as some have done - poeticize him, he gives us a common but not unduly vulgar man, with brightness and obtuseness intermingled.
Other relatively predictable adaptations are the development of an obtuse angle between the scapula and coracoid and the loss of the furcula.
Short in proportion to the Corolla tho wide or bulky; the Style is very long or longer than the stamens, simple, cilindrical, bowed or bent upwards, placed on the top of the germ, membranous shrivels and falls off when the pericarp has obtained it's full Size. the Stigma is three clefts very manute and pubescent. the pericarp is a capsule, triangular, oblong, obtuse, and trilocular with three longitudinal valves. the Seed So far as I could judge are noumerous not very manute and globilar. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Note the strange lack of anything resembling Socialism or Marxism, or even any kind of collectivization, except where it pertains to aiding your own country in the long run by being a productive, well-educated member of society - a goal that one would hope even this Administration's most obtuse critics could get behind at least in spirit, if not in the details. OpEdNews - Diary: School Speech Detractors Owe Obama an Apology
[GALEODIA HODGII] Shell rather thick; elliptical, obtuse; whirls about five, inflated, and ornamented with numerous fine spiral lines, which are quite prominent at base; these, with the fine lines of growth, give the surface a cancellated appearance; collumellar lip marked with many irregular plicae; aperture nearly twice the length of the spire. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
-- N.S. (Fig. 141.) Shell fusiform, contracted above the body-whirl, and forming thereby a sub-cylindrical spire; spire obtuse apex papillated and hooked; body-whirl plaited longitudinally at its top; columellar lip furnished with only two plaits. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
If you can't see how even the most resolutely period-costumed production of Don Carlos maybe just might have some pertinence to current political realities, then you're just plain obtuse. Archive 2007-09-01
I could tell there was a certain vexation that had overcome him, as though talking to me was some sort of obtuse chore and not a pleasant experience.
While I agree that I'm guilty of a moment's distraction, I feel I must defend myself against the memo's accusals of ‘sheer obtuseness where anything musical is concerned’ and ‘shameless disregard for the band's intentions’.
In fact, on several occasions other characters draw attention to his obtuseness: fresh from the country, he is only imperfectly the rakish figure he imitates.
In addition, it differs from C. magna in the absence of a closed talonid basin of the m3 and in the obtuse shape of the parastylc of M3.
What's more, it turned a difficult, obtuse administrative issue - campaign financing - into an easy-to-grasp, emotionally appealing one.
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
Floral glumes narrow or broad, acute, obtuse or minutely 2-toothed and awned, paleate; sterile glumes are small, without palea. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Cardinal angles distinct and obtuse with the posterior one being more obtuse than anterior one.
The leaves of this species are six inches long, pale yellowish-green, lyrate, with obtuse and entire divisions: when fully developed, they somewhat resemble those of the oak, as implied by the name. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
The fracture surfaces form acute and obtuse angles with the outer surface of the bone, and they exhibit no perturbations caused by split lines.
The oral shield is rhombic but often with an obtuse proximal angle and a convex distal edge.
It is larger and more dilated than pumicatus, the basal joint of the antennae is shorter, the palpi are not so obtusely truncated, and its habit and appearance quite different. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
The third glume is ovate or oblong, acute or obtuse, longer or shorter than the second, 1-nerved, paleate; palea is as long as the glume and of the same texture of the glume dorsally narrowly inflexed along the middle line and splitting into two halves. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
You HATE the book, or the first sentence has glaring grammatical errors, or the whole point of the book is obtuse and lost in clunky prose. UPDATES - and Clowns With Big Signs...and stuff.
Mieville gropes for a prose style in the opening hundred pages or so, meaning that the opening part of the book is delivered in short, staccato bursts, one moment enjoyable, the next annoyingly obtuse to the point of turgidness. Kraken by China Mieville
AUSTRALIS, but different in the leaves, which are here ciliated at the margin, very glandulous on the back; and in the flowers, which are smaller, the petals more obtuse, and having a broad, white line of pubescence round the margin at the back.] 121 [L. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
Naivety bordering on obtuseness helped sustain his faith.
Alternatively, of course, Winter knew everything, was philosophic about it, and Wrench was too obtuse to see. DARE CALL IT TREASON
It is thankfully the most obtuse piece here, and the only one in which that obtuseness obscures the song rather than aiding it.
The _third glume_ is oblong lanceolate, obtuse, 5-nerved, a little shorter than the second glume, paleate and with stamens; _palea_ is short. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
+Cap+ 2 to 4 inches broad, ovate, campanulate, then spreading, obtuse, with a cuticle, sticky in moist weather, rarely sprinkled with one or two fragments of the volva, the margin regular, even. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
Kel took a deep breath and unbent her long-idle arm slowly, watching the angle of her elbow go from acute to right to obtuse in a matter of seconds.
Walls unexpectedly meet at acute and obtuse angles rather than commonplace right angles.
I do think it's a usability issue, at least for the unversed and uninterested, for whom trackbacks could be really important and useful tools if they weren't quite so obtuse.
Cones from 10 to 17 cm. long, short-pedunculate, ovoid-conic; apophyses lustrous brown-ochre or fuscous brown, elevated into thick, often reflexed, beaks with obtuse mutic umbos; seeds with large nuts and adnate striated dark gray or fuscous brown wings. The Genus Pinus
Worse again, he put together arrangements for his music which were obtuse and wilfully difficult.
Forus not to dothis would only endorse the proposition that the American electorate is intellectually obtuse and morallyderelict and we surround ourselves in a steel fortressof delusion and denial andany awareness of the grossest atrocities committed by leaders we choose. We Must Raise Our Voices for Our Country's Redemption
Alternatively, of course, Winter knew everything, was philosophic about it, and Wrench was too obtuse to see. DARE CALL IT TREASON
Petiole 2-6 mm, puberulent and ± setose; leaf blade papery, oblong to oblong - lanceolate, 5-11 × 1. 5-3.5 cm; base cuneate; margin ciliate; apex obtuse and mucronate; abaxial surface densely gray-white-pubescent, yellow-brown setose along midrib; adaxial surface sparsely to densely puberulent when young. Find Me A Cure
Oversensitivity and deliberate obtuseness is a terrible combination, Seixonâ€ ¦ you might consider trying to address at least one of those character flaws. Think Progress » Putin Jabs Bush: ‘We Certainly Would Not Want…The Same Kind of Democracy As They Have in Iraq’
Saccheri proved that the hypothesis of the obtuse angle implied the fifth postulate, so obtaining a contradiction.
Obtusely, in a country devoid of trees, the houses turned out to be prefabricated wooden boxes.
The fox terrier on the right side of the photo is a prime example of a Maltese type of fox terreirs with a perfect trangle of a face with obtuse angles formed with the ears and the nose. Timesofmalta.com
The ends are usually acute or obtuse, but sometimes also fish tail-like, truncate or vague.
The _first glume_ is ovate-oblong, thickly coriaceous, smooth at the back with a truncate base and a transverse ridge at the base inside, many-nerved, with very narrow inflexed margins and very narrow wings at the top, the apex is obtuse or emarginate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The very oversight perceptible to any eye and painful to any ear not sealed up by stepdame nature from all perception of pleasure or of pain derivable from good verse or bad -- the reckless reiteration of the same rhyme with but one poor couplet intervening -- suggests rather the oversight of an unfledged poet than the obtuseness of a full-grown poeticule or poetaster. A Study of Shakespeare
In superior view the fruits are markedly trigonous with three obtuse angles.
Description: "Shell, pear-shaped; spire short, depressed; snture profoundly canaliculated, margined by the obtuse carina at the angle of the whirl; body whirl truncated above; angular whirls of the spire angulated in the middle, and inclined Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
+Cap+ reddish-brown, 3 to 6 inches broad, fleshy; when young egg-shaped, and then campanulate, and flattening out with a broad, obtuse umbo. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
I have known non-intellectual teachers and writers with a marvelous capacity for getting recondite points across to the most obtuse student or reader.
One caveat here for the stick-right or stick-left position - be careful not to throw the dice at an obtuse angle to the back wall.
Left anterior auricle shallow, with straight dorsal margin and obtuse, outwardly concave anterior margin lacking a byssal sinus.
He affirmed that the juries were the most singularly obtuse and obstinate bodies he had ever encountered; and that the courts were, beyond all question, the most incurably opinionated tribunals that ever were formed. Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
I've really been very obtuse and stupid.
At the first obtuse fact and boring tangent, readers will ditch them.
It is furnished with three lobes: the first lobe is short, thick, and obtuse; the second is raised, triangular and with cutting edges; the third of the size of the first, but more compressed -- in short, a double-fanged tooth. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
The oral shield is rhombic but often with an obtuse proximal angle and a convex distal edge.
This is not because they are obtuse or stupid or misdirected.
Bruce Hayden: It was obtuse because it was run on an early pipelined machine Univac 1110,... The Volokh Conspiracy » Clive Crook (at The Atlantic) on “ClimateGate”
He's bipolar and I'm completely obtuse to someone's behaviour, so it's a perfect match.
But this system for entering my thoughts seems a mite obtuse.
I'm sorry to be such a scrotum, but did you mean to type "otiose" or "obtuse"? "Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much."
His work, though far from didactic, is full of moral implications; his example of aesthetic idealism, set by abnegation and artistry is a standing rebuke to facility and venality, callousness and obtuseness. James Joyce
Petiole 2-6 mm, puberulent and ± setose; leaf blade papery, oblong to oblong - lanceolate, 5-11 × 1. 5-3.5 cm; base cuneate; margin ciliate; apex obtuse and mucronate; abaxial surface densely gray-white-pubescent, yellow-brown setose along midrib; adaxial surface sparsely to densely puberulent when young. Find Me A Cure
“I don’t much like hearing him called obtuse and superficial, but I suppose I should like still less to hear Sybell praise him. Red Pottage
he had so rapaciously desired and so obtusely expected to find her alone
The _second glume_ is the longest, linear-lanceolate, rigid, tip obtuse or emarginate, slightly convex with A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Floral glumes narrow or broad, acute, obtuse or minutely 2-toothed and awned, paleate; sterile glumes are small, without palea. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Who, after a great disaster, has not looked back with wonder at his inconceivable obtuseness of understanding, that could not perceive the many minute threads with which fate weaves the inextricable net of our destinies, until he is inmeshed completely in it? The Last Man
Morgan mentally scolds herself at her slanderously obtuse remark as Jody's mansion lay just a block down.
a purple dorsal awn, 3-nerved paleate; the two marginal nerves are densely bearded with long white or purple tinged hairs from near the base to almost the apex and the mid-nerve also similarly bearded with long hairs on both sides, and the base with a tuft of long hairs; the palea is as long as the glume, coriaceous obovately-cuneate, obtuse, minutely bifid, purple-tipped, with folded hyaline margins, 2-keeled; keels shortly ciliate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
The LRF - 800's performance in the field, especially on smaller objects and those with severely obtuse angles, remains to seen.
I don't much like hearing him called obtuse and superficial, but I suppose I should like still less to hear Sybell praise him. Red Pottage
Also known for her potent, often obtuse poetry is Tori Amos.
That requires an extraordinary level of political obtuseness.
There's more to it than Marc Bell, whose playfully obtuse strips and illustrations get most of the attention.
We are often told that establishment taste is parochial, obtuse and unreceptive to novelty.
Again, a line drawn through the axis of the face, between the bones called ethmoid and vomer — the “basifacial axis” (‘f e’.) forms an exceedingly obtuse angle, where, when produced, it cuts the ‘basicranial axis.’ Essays
Page view page image: acerose reather more than half a line in width and very unequal in length, the greatest length being little more than half an inch, while others intermixed on every part of the bough are not more than a 1/4 in length. flat with a small longitudinal channel in the upper disk which is of a deep green and glossey, while the u [n] der disk is of a whiteish green only; two ranked, obtusely pointed, soft and flexable. this tree affords but little rosin. the cone is remarkably small not larger than the end of a man's thumb soft, flexable and of an ovate form, produced at the ends of the small twigs. Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
Arcomytilus has a truncated posterior flank between two low, obtuse ridges not found on Nodomytilus.
Surely the answer's obvious - or are you being deliberately obtuse?
I like a bit of obtuse reporting. The Sun
You need a new thesaurus, your reliance on the word obtuse is getting annoying. Raw Story
The second glume is linear-lanceolate, rigid, empty, persistent recurved when old, tip obtuse or emarginate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The lyrics are suitably obtuse and playful, with just the right amount of post-industrial alienation to re-awaken that eastern block new wave spirit.
Oblique angles are of two kinds, acute and obtuse.
No, the ‘pot, meet kettle’ comment is intended to point up your blatant hypocrisy … not surprising that you fail to understand it, although whether your obtuseness is a result of malice of just plain stupidity is a subject for further debate. Think Progress » Putin Jabs Bush: ‘We Certainly Would Not Want…The Same Kind of Democracy As They Have in Iraq’
Any given triangle, either imagined or on paper, must either be acute, right, or obtuse, and either scalene, isosceles, or equilateral, and so any given triangle cannot represent all triangles.
That is, (if the obtuse language doesn't deceive me), within the law.
Klein was being deliberately obtuse it seems to me.
Mrs. Blackwell writes her teasingly about what she calls her obtuseness, going straight ahead with her work, never knowing when she was snubbed or defeated, giving the undiluted doctrine to people without ever perceiving their frantic efforts to escape, and ignoring all the humorous features of the campaigns. The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01
Obtuse-angulate: two markings or margins meeting so as to form an obtuse angle. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Brad is being both condescending and obtuse - I have difficulty in seeing any evidence whatsoever of infantilism in the piece that he quotes.
The _fourth glume_ is elliptic-oblong, plano-convex, subobtuse, smooth or shining, though faintly striate, coriaceous with incurved margins; _palea_ is coriaceous, as long as the glume, elliptic, faintly striate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The small firn also rises with a common footstalk from the radix and are from four to eight in number. about 8 inches long; the central rib marked with a slight longitudinal groove throughout it's whole length. the leafets are oppositely pinnate about 1/3 rd of the length of the common footstalk from the bottom and thence alternately pinnate; the footstalk terminating in a simple undivided nearly entire lanceolate leafet. the leafets are oblong, obtuse, convex absolutely entire, marked on the upper disk with a slight longitudinal groove in place of the central rib, smooth and of a deep green. near the upper extremity these leafets are decursively pinnate as are also those of the large f rn. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
These students had studied different types of angles e.g., acute, straight and obtuse angles, and discussed the notion of adjacent angles.
But it would be massively obtuse not to acknowledge the grotesque and terrible injustice the Magdalene Laundries represented, and what a blazingly and compellingly powerful indictment this film is.
The _leaf-blade_ is linear or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, glaucous beneath, base rounded or subcordate, 1 to 3 inches long and 1/2 to 3/4 inch broad. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Not only have you joined the ranks of the morally obtuse, but you have done so with an arrogance that would astound a mullah issuing a fatwa.
Even for him, this is an especially difficult and obtuse text.
We shall never know because the obtuse camera angle, from midwicket, provided insufficient evidence.
Flowers terminating short branches, sterile and fertile, more commonly on separate trees, often on the same tree; anthers in opposite pairs; ovuliferous scales in opposite pairs, slightly spreading, acute or obtuse; ovules 1-4. Handbook of the Trees of New England
Tolstoy was often a rather wild thinker, a village explainer, an obtuse casuist; he filled his artistic works with his own woolly-minded theorizing. Jim Windolf: A Q&A with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky Translator Richard Pevear: Jim Windolf
The _fourth glume_ is coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, nearly as long as the second glume, awned at the apex, paleate, with three stamens and an ovary; the _palea_ is as long as the glume, elliptic oblong, obtuse. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Grain is oblong, obtusely trigonous, or concavo-convex, red-brown and rugulose on the ventral side. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The spikelets are plano-convex, orbicular to oblong, obtuse, secund, 2-ranked on the flattened or triquetrous rachis of the spike-like branches of a raceme, one-flowered and falling off entire from the very short or obscure pedicels. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The comments and discusssion on this topic aptly describe your obtuseness and your ivory tower out of touch with reality circular theoretical esoterica to ad nauseum better than I could ever state on my own. The Economics of Wage Labor, Michael Munger | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
To this end, the Peak began to ask how America could be so obtuse as to not understand the motives behind the attack.
AUSTRALIS, but different in the leaves, which are here ciliated at the margin, very glandulous on the back; and in the flowers, which are smaller, the petals more obtuse, and having a broad, white line of pubescence round the margin at the back.] [** L. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
Furthermore: Critic Janet Maslin explored other aspects of the obtuseness of this guide in an entertaining review of this book in the New York Times on Sept. 4, 2006. 2007 February 12 « One-Minute Book Reviews
I frowned, wondering if he was deliberately being obtuse, like I had been with him earlier.
Scalia rejected what he called the "obtuse" argument by the attorneys for consumers who challenged CompuCredit that Congress had not intended for companies to force disputes into binding arbitration. News - latimes.com
Surely the answer's obvious - or are you being deliberately obtuse?
Young is a legendarily obtuse character. Times, Sunday Times
Mathematics on the corner there is an obtuse, straight angle, acute angle, right angle, the students, what angle ah?
His career rose on a chic, combustible mix of obtuseness and literary flimflam.
But all their early 90's radical reinvention meant was wrapping the songs in deliberately obtuse production to make it seem cutting edge.
I've really been very obtuse and stupid.
But, for a historian, he seems incredibly obtuse about the process of historical change, particularly the way each culture adapts ideas to suit its own purposes.
When Stephen Sondheim's Follies arrived in 1971, we critics were pretty obtuse about it.
The cutting edge includes two sections which form an obtuse angle and in the area of a roof-shaped tip merge into each other.
That is, a right-wing “moby”: it seems hard to believe that such a perfect example of the morally obtuse and intellectually dishonest leftist is for real. The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
Leaflets ovate or nearly so, with obtuse or acute apex; rhachis somewhat pubescent. Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
The logic of these morally obtuse but deeply sentimental preenings of high-office holders is disturbing on many levels, but principally because it dramatizes something real: liberals, long sundered from the lineaments of any majoritarian politics, have succumbed to the worship of getting and holding power for its own sake. The Feel Good Presidency
Grain is oblong, obtusely trigonous, or concavo-convex, red-brown and rugulose on the ventral side. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Pinnæ lanceolate, acuminate, the lowest pair deflexed and standing forward; cut into oblong, obtuse segments. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
This morning Channel Seven's bulletin carried two items that set my teeth on edge due to the sheer amount of obtuseness as it skirted away from reporting the news and into editorialising.
When the forearm is extended and supinated, the axes of the arm and forearm are not in the same line; the arm forms an obtuse angle with the forearm, the hand and forearm being directed lateral-ward. III. Syndesmology. 6d. Elbow-joint
I like a bit of obtuse reporting. The Sun
Luskin tells Isikoff he did nothing wrong but now concedes ‘I was completely obtuse about the optics of the situation.’
Palpi as long as the breadth of the head; second joint obliquely ascending; third porrect, rather shorter than the second, with which it forms an obtuse angle. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
So now it becomes apparent that in addition to being a gutless liar, you are also a clueless mass of obtuseness.
The fritillaria has five or six linear, obtuse leaves, put on irregularly near the bottom of the stem, which is usually terminated by one large bell-shaped flower; but its more beautiful companion, the erythronium, has two radical leaves only, which are large and oval, and shine like glass. Steep Trails
The labellum is broad and obtuse, except for the yellow base, which stands erect and half-encloses the column.
Raglan kept sending gallopers down - Lew among them - to tell Lucan, and the infantry commanders, to get on with it, but they seemed maddeningly obtuse about his orders, and wanted to wait for our infantry to come up, and it was this delay that was fretting Raglan and sending Lew half-crazy. The Sky Writer
At the time I couldn't believe the obtuseness of the student.
She cannot possibly be so obtuse.
And it must be confessed, that there is some amusement to be found in abusing someone as grotesquely obtuse as yourself. Think Progress » Fox Cuts Away From Obama-GOP Conversation In Order To Get A Head Start On Attacks: He Was ‘Lecturing’
The deadpan humour behind their stone-faced radical posturing and deliberately obtuse lyrics were certainly overlooked by many.
The mainstream media would do us a lot of good by not being obtuse about it.
In the fullness of time, ninety-nine percent of the bad, ugly, stupid, obtuse, and banal remains so, and remains so unmemorable that it sinks into oblivion.
The margin may be acute or obtuse, rolled backward or upward (revolute), or rolled inward (involute); it may be thick or thin. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
Of course, if the Democrats refuse to take part in this kinderspiel, then the Orcosphere will then go out and say that Mr. Bush is the one being reasonable; it's those obtuse and stubborn Democrats who won't listen to reason. And The Point Would Be...?
A great Niagara of religious fervor is cascading down around them while they stand obtuse and dry in the little cave of their own parochialism — and many of them are journalists and policy analysts, who are paid to keep up with these things. Kicking the Secularist Habit
I've really been very obtuse and stupid.
Very fleshy, three to ten inches high, sterile segment subsessile, borne near the middle of the plant, oblong, simple pinnate with three to eight pairs of lunate or fan-shaped divisions, obtusely crenate, the veins repeatedly forking; fertile segment panicled, two to three pinnate. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
While some was directed at the youngster for what was described as her failure to show respect for her elders, others accused the older woman of obtusely demanding piety.
But in writing and painting them're maximumly internal; the obstacle is your own obtuseness .
But, being rather obtuse at times, I ignored it.
Holmes is entertaining (although his obtuseness is a bit overdone, I'll admit), Dr Watson is very likable and the supporting cast worked well. MetaFilter
It was obtuse because it was run on an early pipelined machine Univac 1110, and I shuffled instructions and register usage to optimize the instruction overlap. The Volokh Conspiracy » Clive Crook (at The Atlantic) on “ClimateGate”
The _fourth glume_ is ellipsoidal, obtuse, chartaceous, minutely and obscurely rugulose, faintly 3-nerved, with the base somewhat thickened. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Rose, unassuming, not even pretty, certainly tiresomely obtuse about some things, had wished him goodbye in a matter-of - fact manner which should have left him in no doubt as to her feelings, but her eyes, her lovely gentle eyes, mused Mr. Werdmer ter Sane besot - tedly, had betrayed her. A Girl Named Rose
In its heyday, the Review enjoyed a reputation as an obtuse and nearly unreadable but authoritative publication put together by a sometimes raffish staff.
Putting it explicitly in the script is ham-fisted and breaks the butterfly of imagination on the wheel of obtuse sarkiness.
It is a luxuriant plant with opposite oblong and obvoate leaves which abruptly acuminate apically and are obtuse to basally rounded.
The very oversight perceptible to any eye and painful to any ear not sealed up by stepdame nature from all perception of pleasure or of pain derivable from good verse or bad -- the reckless reiteration of the same rhyme with but one poor couplet intervening -- suggests rather the oversight of an unfledged poet than the obtuseness of a full-grown poeticule or poetaster. A Study of Shakespeare
Black and white with a tasteful blue cover, Smoke peers out at the capital from an obtuse angle.
Oh and maybe the reason they’re all quite obtuse is that being in a chick-lit novel themselves they never read chick-lit, or seen a chick-flick and so don’t come to recognise the signals like the rest of us? Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room
BUDS -- terminal buds usually 3/8 to 3/4 of an inch long, subglobose to narrowly ovate, with 8-10 imbricate scales, the outermost of which are a blackish brown with dark brown tomentum, and a short mucronate or attenuate apex, inner scales light brown with longer lanate pubescence and apex acute to obtuse; lateral buds smaller, about 1/4 of an inch with tightly appressed scales. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
Why then are Mr and Mrs Bennet in the dark, and Mr Collins and Lady Catherine - the two most obtuse and imperceptive characters in the novel - all-knowing on this confidential matter?
The leaves are petiolate, the footstalk small short and oppressed; acerose reather more than half a line in width and very unequal in length, the greatest length being little more than half an inch, while others intermixed on every part of the bough are not more than a 1/4 in length. flat with a small longitudinal channel in the upper disk which is of a deep green and glossey, while the uder disk is of a whiteish green only; two ranked, obtusely pointed, soft and flexable. this tree affords but little rosin. the cone is remarkably small not larger than the end of a man's thumb soft, flexable and of an ovate form, produced at the ends of the small twigs. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
= -- Cones upon dwarf branches, erect or inclining upwards, ovoid to cylindrical, 1/2-3/4 of an inch long, purplish or reddish brown while growing, light brown at maturity, persistent for at least a year; scales thin, obtuse to truncate; edge entire, minutely toothed or erose; seeds small, winged. Handbook of the Trees of New England
The aperture is in consequence rendered somewhat pyriform, the inner curvature being very obtuse, and in some individuals distorted by an angle formed where the fold crosses the border of the lower palpebra. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage
Anterior margin of carapace slightly acuminate with less obtuse cardinal angle than posterior margin.
Again, a line drawn through the axis of the face, between the bones called ethmoid and vomer — the “basifacial axis” (‘f e’.) forms an exceedingly obtuse angle, where, when produced, it cuts the ‘basicranial axis.’ Essays
Pinnæ sub-opposite, divergent, narrowly oblong, obtuse; base truncate, cordate or clasping, occasionally auricled; lower pinnæ often with orbicular or cordate pinnules. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
When she says Home is ‘quite difficult to describe’ because ‘it doesn't have a plot ’, McCartney isn't being awkward or obtuse, just careful.
The domes are obtuse and flat and are quite distant from each other.
It's good to know that our congress critters are not completely obtuse about the needs of their constituents.
The base of each valve was rounded in both lines, but was blunt and obtuse in Apex and more tapered in DK142.
Obtuse terminology squashes out the real words, leaving you with a strange sense of emptiness.
Compounding my obtuseness is my pigheadedness (that's another guy thing, right?) -- I can't seem to shake this idea that the race is about gender and race because ...... everybody is TELLING me it's about gender and race! Marc Kusnetz: Ephronology
Primary pinnæ in outline like the frond; the secondary, pinnatifid into oblong and obtuse, cut-toothed lobes. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
Brad is being both condescending and obtuse - I have difficulty in seeing any evidence whatsoever of infantilism in the piece that he quotes.
Mother can be a little obtuse when she chooses so I didn't shoot back sarcastically, ‘No Mother, I'm doing this out of the goodness of my heart.’
This recording is deeply, willfully obtuse, enigmatic and difficult.
You have to love that intentionally obtuse use of the conditional ‘in case’ - as if the Times reporter didn't really know what the real plan was.
The sepals are obtuse to rounded, but never retuse as in some plants of L. racemulosa.
I must be that inexplicably angry, obtuse, ill mannered, audacious, pompous blow-hard that writes insulting letters to The Peak!
She'sn't obtuse, but she's proven time and again that she'd sooner go for a simple, grabby lyric than one that actually said something.
too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior
Those who don't get this are either sadly uninformed or deliberately obtuse.
Glumes are many, broad, obtuse, acute or mucronate, never awned, dorsally rounded and keeled; the first and the second glumes are much shorter than the spikelet, equal or unequal, empty, persistent or separately deciduous, A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
She fares best with descriptions of her friends' reactions, which range from tenderly loyal to egomaniacally obtuse. NYT > Home Page
Flat-roofed with lots of glass and obtuse angles sticking out from the corner of a meadow, it is reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright designs.
How far back should I go to illustrate your two year exercise in obtuseness demanding ‘proofs’ and replies to your straw man arguments re: 9/11 on the Xymphora website? Damn you, red baron
Mieville gropes for a prose style in the opening hundred pages or so, meaning that the opening part of the book is delivered in short, staccato bursts, one moment enjoyable, the next annoyingly obtuse to the point of turgidness. Kraken by China Mieville
The _third glume_ is oblong-obovate, hyaline, thin, paleate with three yellow _anthers_ and two oblong-cuneate _lodicules_; _palea_ is narrow, oblong, obtuse. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Ball laments this continued obtuseness in defining how old is old, exactly, when it comes to certifiable gerontophilia. Slate Magazine
Petiole 2-6 mm, puberulent and ± setose; leaf blade papery, oblong to oblong - lanceolate, 5-11 × 1. 5-3.5 cm; base cuneate; margin ciliate; apex obtuse and mucronate; abaxial surface densely gray-white-pubescent, yellow-brown setose along midrib; adaxial surface sparsely to densely puberulent when young. Find Me A Cure
Really, I can't understand how Raspberry would be so obtuse to confuse cause and effect.
As if the obtuse angle between his thighs isn't enough, Farrell is actually leaning back in his chair.
With some it's all there if you read between the lines, while others are deliberately obtuse to maintain an element of privacy.
The _first glume_ is ovate-oblong, thickly coriaceous, smooth at the back with a truncate base and a transverse ridge at the base inside, many-nerved, with very narrow inflexed margins and very narrow wings at the top, the apex is obtuse or emarginate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

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