obtuser

What immutable law, "he went on," decrees that the obtuser the politician, the higher he will rise?

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Adjective: obtuse obtuser, obtusest ub'toos 1. Lacking in insight or discernment 2. Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

From On High 2007

In proportion therefore as the sense is rendered more acute, it perceives a greater number of parts in the object, that is, the object appears greater, and its figure varies, those parts in its extremities which were before unperceivable appearing now to bound it in very different lines and angles from those perceived by an obtuser sense.

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley 2006

What immutable law, "he went on," decrees that the obtuser the politician, the higher he will rise?

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

What immutable law, "he went on," decrees that the obtuser the politician, the higher he will rise?

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

"Who is that?" said Ralph, his obtuser faculties perceiving the man for the first time.

The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers Mary Cholmondeley 1892

At some time far hence allusions will be greatly appreciated, the complexity of which our obtuser faculties would now be unable to understand.

History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

She, so penetrative of him when he opposed her, was hoodwinked when he softened her feelings: for the heart, though the clearest, is not the most constant instructor of the head; the heart, unlike the often obtuser head, works for itself and not for the commonwealth.

The Egoist George Meredith 1868

With diminishing power, with diminishing vitality, with a dimmer eye, with an obtuser ear, with a slower-beating heart, with a feebler frame, we march on and on to our grave.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868

She, so penetrative of him when he opposed her, was hoodwinked when he softened her feelings: for the heart, though the clearest, is not the most constant instructor of the head; the heart, unlike the often obtuser head, works for itself and not for the commonwealth.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868