Sentence examples for obtrude on from inspiring English sources

Acquisitiveness, the proliferation of gimcrack modernity, the abuse of trade-union power, the decline of neighbourly responsibility all obtrude on Kynaston's narrative.

It remains frozen there by a 1997 ruling by the Federal Communications Commission staff that the tower would visually obtrude on the garden.

The genius of "Paradise" is that the biblical subtext is rarely allowed to obtrude on the reader's attention... Formally, "Paradise is Morrison's most Faulknerian novel.

More controversial were Craig's ideas on the depersonalization of the actor into what he called the übermarionette ("super-marionette"), based on a new symbolic form of movement and gesture (not unlike that of the Asian actor) in which the actor's ego would not obtrude on the production's aesthetic concept.

As a film, "Iris" works mainly by flashback, a technique which here never seems to obtrude on the viewer's sense of continuity -- what is going on at the present time in the film, and what went on in the past, in happier times.

"Nothing," writes De Quincey in his preface, "is more revolting to English feelings than the spectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice his moral ulcers or scars".

He sometimes obtruded on what he described with a bestowing air, but that constant presence, which could feel undisciplined and unmedical, was requisite to his particular brand of intimacy.

Yet many of his own images are taken with a short-focus lens, their foregrounds filled by reminders of boring or brutal reality; a table jutting into the backview of a sinuous nude; a car dashboard obtruding on a desert landscape.

But the war didn't interest Welch, not in its scenic aspects anyway and it never obtrudes on to his own canvasses; no Nissen huts here or surrealist barrage balloons, no bomb damage even, his paintings resolutely personal and obscure (and not always very good).

I'm finally reading "The Origin of Species" and getting a huge kick out of the rhetorical strategy Darwin used to obtrude his theory of Natural Selection on a society he suspected might have a few difficulties with it.

A vigorous, humorous tone asserts itself at the outset of Walden: I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life, which some would call impertinent, though they did not appear to me at all impertinent, but, considering the circumstances, very natural and pertinent.