Still I was not without hopes of being more fortunate now, while I felt a delicacy about obtruding myself any further on his time and attention.
Many Americans, who come to Europe with every claim to attention, pass through it nearly unnoticed, from a hesitation about obtruding themselves on others, under the influence of the opinions in which they have been educated.
This, however, was not the matter of which I have spoken as gradually obtruding itself upon my attention, although, had I only been able to guess it, the two were not unconnected.
With them, attention to what is passing within is interrupted by the discordant impressions from objects pressing and obtruding on the external senses.
These originate in casual slights, or in unguarded expressions, or in hasty opinions, or in witty derision, or even in the obtruding goodness of tender admonition.
He was very near her as she disentangled an obtruding vine from her garments, and before she was aware of his purpose he had audaciously snatched a kiss from her astonished lips.
There wasn't a man in the company that didn't resent the fact, constantly obtruding itself on the ranks as they marched eagerly onward by every knoll, every bush in the landscape, that Union soldiers had been there before them!
In the course of the long rides that had become more frequent, obtruding during the monotonous hours spent in the estate office, the problem persisted.
Tonight the contrast between Yokohama, with its pitiful western vulgarity obtruding at every turn, and the quiet beauty of his surroundings struck Craven even more sharply than usual.
And some of the decorative painters only escape things by obtruding pigments, just as the trompe-l'oeil or optical illusion painters get away from pigments by obtruding things.
In a flash of recollection Randolph remembered the obtruding miner on the ferry boat, the same figure on the wharf corner, and the advantage taken of his absence with Miss Avondale.
In yonder shadow, do we see obtruding furtively upon the blaze, an enemy's face?
And now I redeem my pledge, which you will be kind enough to accept as my apology for obtruding this letter upon you.
It is General Regnier is in command of the army; and unless specially applied to, I could not venture upon the liberty of obtruding my opinion upon him.
I own that, with all my anxiety to find a guide, I began to feel some scruples about obtruding on the sleeper's privacy.
It is General Regnier that is in command of the army, and unless specially applied to, I could not venture upon the liberty of obtruding my opinion upon him.
One has to manufacture the materials for reconstruction, and then the present aspect of the place will keep obtruding itself.
He is therefore perpetually haunted by a craving to acquire importance there, and he feels a petulant desire to be constantly obtruding his opinions upon the House.
To do this I had accumulated a good many short passages, rising in length to the end, weaving in the Extracts as if they came in as a part of the text, naturally, not obtruding them as specimens.
Great tact is required with Sweet Seventeen in such society as is allowed her; care to bring her out a little without obtruding her on the world, without making her forward and consequential, and without attracting too much attention to her.
To the south, the view is confined by the near projection of the obtruding cliffs.
He accuses him in particular of always obtruding his anti-orthodox opinions; not choosing to admit that religious opinions were being constantly obtruded on Basedow.
And this is the man accused of "obtruding his views.
The author refrains fromobtruding his own opinions on the reader, leaving things to speak for themselves.
But, dear as the Button-Rose is to my memory, I should hardly think of obtruding it on the notice of others, were it not for a little tale of human interest connected with it.
Why had he come obtruding his life into hers, hers that might have been whole enough without him?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obtruding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
