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  • verb Present participle of obtrude.

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Examples

  • Mowbray’s mock marriage had not halted at the profane ceremony of the church; and the delicate printer shrank from the idea of obtruding on the fastidious public the possibility of any personal contamination having occurred to a high-born damsel of the nineteenth century.”

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • In the original conception, and in the book as actually written and printed, Miss Mowbray's mock marriage had not halted at the profane ceremony of the church; and the delicate printer shrank from the idea of obtruding on the fastidious public the possibility of any personal contamination having occurred to a high-born damsel of the nineteenth century. "

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

  • It required a man of that calibre, a man capable of obtruding a duel into orderly twentieth century life, to find such wild adventures.

    Chapter 26 2010

  • Yet the imaginary phonotext — pulling the symbolic field part of the way back toward the real, and thereby obtruding the fact of sound back into the circulations of sema — eludes Dolar's post-Derridean model, with its arrest of all embodied vocality by an abstracting semiosis.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • Something is missing, or, to use Heidegger's jargon, "obtruding."

    enowning enowning 2009

  • Reality has a nasty way of obtruding itself upon happy fantasies.

    McCain Camp's Debate Response: Our Town-Hall Proposal Is "Beneath A Worldwide Celebrity" 2009

  • Please refrain for obtruding your idea of the "facts" while at the same time accusing your interlocutors of deliberate ignorance, or of "blind hatred" or failing to look at the opposing point of view.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Something is missing, or, to use Heidegger's jargon, "obtruding."

    Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009

  • I am delicate of obtruding myself upon him now, never having had much intercourse with him in better times; but I have tried to do so.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • “Miss Summerson,” said Mr. Woodcourt, “if without obtruding myself on your confidence I may remain near you, pray let me do so.”

    Bleak House 2007

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