obtrusion

The provisions fell away as he gripped an obtrusion with his left hand and pulled himself close.

He was breathing shallowly, clearly trying to make as little obtrusion of his presence as possible.

Sonically it’s threadbare too but again, what effects there are do the job with the minimum of fuss and obtrusion.

I have no right to mar the great end of a great history, by any obtrusion of my own weak self.

It appears to us as a certain disproportion in the picture, caused by the obtrusion of the whims of the painter.

Then he may, without obtrusion of his individuality, step forth to lay his little wreath upon that dear friend's grave.

If I were to tell you that the essayist Sydney Smith defined pedantry as the "ostentatious obtrusion of knowledge" would it make me a pedant?

This low dosing rate ensures long fluid refill intervals and minimises the tank's size (and subsequent obtrusion into vehicle packaging space).

A less pardonable eccentricity is the cold and gratuitous obtrusion of licentious images, not so much the suggestion of merriment as of bitterness.

A pseudopodia or "false foot" is a temporary obtrusion from the body of the amoeba that helps pull it along surfaces for movement or helps to pull in food.

From the aesthetics point of view, the designed locking system should be within the size limitation such that the any obtrusion underneath or above the roof has minimal significance on the roof structure.

The barriers are set-up so as to provide maximum security for those that should not have access to a premises and minimum obtrusion for those that do have access to the site.

By a philosophical religion it need hardly be said that we do not mean the obtrusion of a remote and contentious theology, but a religion based upon a real understanding of political principles and crying social needs.

I didn't need any more directions, I sped up and followed the road to where I knew the cabin stood, fronting onto the lake and surrounded by the forest on three sides, the wagon road only an upstart obtrusion on the sylvan surround.

The second tells of Henry Venn, an agent for "Robot Obtrusion Battalion - Omega Three", who poses as an interplanetary robot salesman while searching for a missing Galactic Census official on a planet populated by paranoid colonists.

Perhaps the worst specimen of this obtrusion is given us by our poet in "Blind Bartimeus" and the "Goblet of Life," where it will be observed that the sole interest of the upper-current of meaning depends upon its relation or reference to the under.

The prevailing slapstick quality of this work, especially where Sancho Panza is involved, the obtrusion of the obscene where it is found in the original, and the slurring of difficulties through omissions or expanding upon the text all made the Motteux version irresponsible.

Vatican lay against the land, now a part of it, growing out of the land as if it had sprouted roots deep into its soil - not a glaring obtrusion, but something that had grown as naturally as trees, blending into the biota of the planet.