obtrude

• The true artist never seeks to obtrude, or to make his own personality the first thing. —  Spirit and Music
• It is not in such subjects alone that our artists transgress Sir Joshua's rule; we too often see portraits where the dress and accessaries obtrude--there is too much lace and too little expression--and our painters of views follow the fashion most unaccountably--ornament is every where; we have not a town where the houses are not "turned out of windows," and all the furniture of every kind piled up in the streets; and as if to show a pretty general bankruptcy, together with the artist's own poverty, you would imagine an auction going on in every other house, by the Turkey carpets and odds and ends hanging from the windows. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
• People who would obtrude, now do not obtrude. —  English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice
• Those who are not self-possessed, obtrude, and pain us. —  English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice
• I wondered what old memories might be coming to her now; what staring faces might obtrude, what old, far-off, perhaps hated, voices might be sounding to her; what of remembered hurts and heartaches might newly echo back to make her flinch and wonder if she dreamed. —  Ruggles of Red Gap

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