Normally, our digital tools are intrusive, constantly barging in to demand our attention with e-mail alerts, beeping instant messages and phone calls.
"He questioned us constantly in a really intrusive and irritating way," Murphy says.
Piled on top of that come a barrage of hi-tech stage effects, constantly shifting scenery, and intrusive digital projections.
I don't need intrusive music, constantly, telling me what to think; I want it to sound like how it actually was.
Iran favors a strong, unified Iraq whose sovereignty is not constantly trampled upon by the intrusive Western powers.
So it's like constantly having strangers on your property, which is unsettling and intrusive," one landowner complained.
"My apartment's kitchen sink made these strangely intrusive sounds during a period when the water was constantly shut off because of some mysterious maintenance," Caminiti said.
We don't need to be constantly reminded of our particularity, but we are: by the way people behave, by intrusive questions and unsolicited advice.
This pattern of symptoms, known as post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, can include emotional numbness, intrusive memories of the traumatic event, and hyperarousal (increased awareness of one's surroundings, or constantly being "on guard").
She was present yet not intrusive, an important part of that place, who gave a normalcy to the strange life of constantly looking for work.
