obstreperousness

• Luke Haines has long been nurturing a cult as "an outsider looking in", and certainly this is the bad vibe that sweeps through his acidic, caustic but painfully honest reflection upon the Britpop years, an era he had a significant creative role in during its formative days, before finding himself cast out due to a toxic mixture of personal and creative obstreperousness. —  Brit Lit Blogs
• Sure, Boehner is being loudly obstructionist: but I submit that he's doing so not because it's his strategy for the House Republican Caucus but because he knows he couldn't bring them around if he tried, and so is making a virtue of their obstreperousness. —  Balloon Juice
• There rest, before us, not objects to gaze upon, but barriers to vision, obstructions, the visible obstreperousness of the visual world, arrayed like a sequence of curtains leading to a consequence of shadows. —  dbqp: visualizing poetics
• All this noise and obstreperousness are leading up to one thing--Kaiser Bill's entrance. —  All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand
• India has often complained of its neighbours 'obstreperousness over bilateral economic relations. —  The Financial Express

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