How To Use Obtuseness In A Sentence
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What you feel when faced with their obtuseness is what they feel when faced with challenging information.
Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist
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At the time I couldn't believe the obtuseness of the student.
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But in writing and painting them're maximumly internal; the obstacle is your own obtuseness .
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ball laments this continued obtuseness in defining how old is old, exactly, when it comes to certifiable gerontophilia.
Slate Magazine
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Oversensitivity and deliberate obtuseness is a terrible combination, Seixon … 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’
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So now it becomes apparent that in addition to being a gutless liar, you are also a clueless mass of obtuseness.
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Tracks like ‘Bodies At Rest And In Motion’ can't hide their avant-garde obtuseness, even under skittering drum machines.
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I do kind of feel that there's a certain obtuseness to the whole "they don't get it, people worked for six years on that" argument that is so often trotted out.
Tape Song
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What amount of obtuseness will disqualify a criticaster who itches to be tinkering and cobbling the noblest passages of thought that ever issued from mortal brain, while at the same time he stumbles and bungles in sentences of that simplicity and grammatical clearness, as not to tax the powers of a third-form schoolboy to explain? [
Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Naivety bordering on obtuseness helped sustain his faith.
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It showed a remarkable political obtuseness not to recognize that when the base of the party is worked up enough to call and write in record numbers, something is in the air besides the smell of patchouli oil.
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This quote is almost perfect in its obtuseness.
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Change the Climate's web page reveals nothing unique or provocative except extraordinarily distressing obtuseness.
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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.
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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.
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His career rose on a chic, combustible mix of obtuseness and literary flimflam.
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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That requires an extraordinary level of political obtuseness.
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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
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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
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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
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Oversensitivity and deliberate obtuseness is a terrible combination, Seixon†¦ 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’
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It is thankfully the most obtuse piece here, and the only one in which that obtuseness obscures the song rather than aiding it.
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Naivety bordering on obtuseness helped sustain his faith.
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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.
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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’.