Sentence examples for at the obviousness from inspiring English sources

"Yeah," says Streten with an chuckle at the obviousness of the answer.

Some white critics—such as me, when I first encountered his work have reacted defensively, purporting to roll their eyes at the obviousness of the references and provocations.

He throws off his set-pieces with insouciant proficiency: when Hamlet asks him if he could memorise a few extra lines, he sniggers at the obviousness of the question.

The Bogdanov brothers have indignantly denied it, but even the Harvard string-theory group was said to be unsure, alternating between laughter at the obviousness of the fraud and hesitant concession that the authors might have been sincere.

Just as you begin to chafe at the obviousness of this setup, or to settle in for another hour of glum psychological atmospherics, Katherine runs over something -- which turns out to be someone -- on a deserted dirt road, and "The Well," with a neck-snapping jolt, turns into the scariest exercise in cinematic sleight of hand since "The Blair Witch Project".

"Yes, I did," Pao answered, eliciting a bit of a chuckle from herself and the courtroom at the obviousness of the question.

Grabbing at him by the obviousness of his mise en scène — typically, lone or paired figures transfixed by the moon, the sea, mountains, or plum-colored nothingness — leaves a viewer holding an empty garment, as the essential gist slips away.

When asked if Ms. Feinstein was his muse, he threw up his hands at the sheer obviousness of it.

Of course, there's always the "Wayne's World" approach, which at least makes light of the obviousness of the product placement, thus making it tolerable.

Gradually, though, the obviousness flattens everything: the inevitable pointing at the audience with every "you", the guitarist's blessed "running" during Run to You.

What keeps you looking even when he's not at his best is the clarity -- some would say the obviousness -- of his moves and his ideas about painting, especially painting as an activity that requires some level of physical invention.