And yet no thought of escaping from what she considers her “shackles” obtrudes upon her musings.
It obtrudes between man and his reason, and forbids him to listen to its voice.
It obtrudes between man and his conscience, and forbids him to obey its dictates.
It obtrudes between man and his civil obligations, and forbids him to obey the laws of his country.
It permits the exercise of only a limited number of these powers, and thereby obtrudes an insuperable obstacle to the full development of the human character.
The objection that naturally obtrudes itself is why the term for father should be taken as the starting-point rather than that for son or brother.
The question naturally obtrudes itself: If the Scandinavians obtained their civilization from the Southeast, how did the Oriental cultures themselves originate?
To return to the differences of this transept from the other, the roof-shafts over the inserted Perpendicular arch (which here obtrudes into the triforium) descend no lower than the sill of the clearstorey.
Into every moment of enjoyment they obtrude conscience, or rather conscience obtrudes itself.
She is constantly coming back to reality; reality constantly obtrudes itself into her dreams.
I should never come to an end if I were to describe everything that obtrudes itself on the sight in these wide streets of the Tartar city.
A thought now obtrudes itself which seems so remote that one is tempted to ignore it.
Nevertheless the timid red, or sickly yellow-grey, brick of the existing houses is pleasingly veiled by ivy and Virginia creeper, while no shop front obtrudes derogatory suggestion of retail trade.
I merely mention this as the impression that obtrudes itself when my body tramples on its keeper--(a metaphor borrowed from a menagerie of wild beasts, if it should happen to puzzle you!
Some have considered sublimity as expressing grandeur in the highest degree: it would perhaps be as well to express the cause of the emotion by grandeur, and the emotion itself by sublimity.
In many cases, on the contrary, we are conscious of a train of thought being immediately awakened in the imagination, analogous to the character of expression of the original object.
This I have more particularly experienced since my arrival in Verona; and here a queer feature in my queer idiosyncrasy obtrudes itself to notice, i.
Sidenote: A little digression] "Here a little observation obtrudes itself to my notice.
A person is officious who obtrudes his offices or assistance where they are not needed; he is impertinent when he intermeddles in things with which he has no concern.
To put in one's oar, to give aid or advice; -- commonly used of a person whoobtrudes aid or counsel not invited.
Defn: One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.
One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.
But in these lines below the person of Reason obtrudes itself into our company, and becomes disagreeable by its distinctness, and consequent improbability.
The financial question naturally obtrudes itself, but I believe that a solution of the question is not beyond the wit of man to devise.
On a later occasion, when bewailing his lot, the image of Prometheus again obtrudes itself on the scholar.
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