Sentence examples for obviousness that from inspiring English sources

But they also exude a melodramatic, conservative obviousness that ultimately talks down to the viewer.

The result is a stripped-down, bare-knuckled starkness — not to mention an occasional obviousness — that is both a declaration of ambition and an attack on the status quo.

"Were 'Beloved' adapted for television (which would suit the crass obviousness that wins out over Morrison's literary gift at every significant turn) the trailer might go like this: 'Meet Sethe, an ex-slave woman who harbors a deep and terrible secret that has brought terror into her home.' " (As it happened, it was adapted for film, with Oprah in the role of Sethe).

Even when these workmanlike gags do click, they have a wocka-wocka obviousness that's the opposite of rebellion.

Registered members are encouraged to read through the patents available and provide opinions on prior art and obviousness that can then become part of the PTO Examiners review of non-patent references.

Playing actress Chris MacNeil, the bewildered mother of the havoc-raising child, Shields lends her lines a B-movie obviousness that cries out for an exorcism of a different kind, one requiring the mystical skills of an acting coach rather than a priest.

It works a magic on obviousness, so that it becomes a novel about British embarrassment and embarrassing Britishness.

The obviousness of that movie contrasts vividly with another much-talked-about if little-seen American movie from this year, "Margaret," from Kenneth Lonergan.

Non-obviousness requires that the invention must be sufficiently different from the state of the art, rather than a slight, unnecessary improvement.

And the way that some of the phrases rely on repeated upper-body gesture — what ballet people call a demi-character emphasis — has a cuteness (in some places) or obviousness (in others) that diminishes their effect as dance, as if trying to tell us What's on These People's Minds.

In each of our cases cited by petitioner and by the dissent below, prosecution history estoppel was tied to amendments made to avoid the prior art, or otherwise to address a specific concern--such as obviousness--that arguably would have rendered the claimed subject matter unpatentable.