Passing towards the stairs he was silently but respectfully saluted by a modest looking young man, without the obtrusive offer of service.
The dominant power which the Constitution gives to the slave interest, as thus seen and exercised in the Legislative Halls of our nation, is equally obvious and obtrusive in every other department of the National government.
The loss does not commonly take the more obtrusive form of an absolute retreat, but only that of a failure to advance where the industrial situation admits of an advance.
Adam Smith owes his preconception in favor of labor to a community in which the obtrusive economic feature of the immediate past was handicraft and agriculture, with commerce as a scarcely secondary phenomenon.
To the modern scientist the phenomena of growth and change are the most obtrusive and most consequential facts observable in economic life.
The most obtrusive feature of the change demanded by the advocates of socialism is governmental control of the industrial activities of society--the nationalisation of industry.
Then I can only say that in what we call good society we become obtrusive in talking of things we know nothing about.
And may I ask whether one becomes obtrusive merely in talking of public affairs?
The four most obtrusive convey a severe satire on transubstantiation.
Hence the necessity for getting them away from home, among people whom they can observe without attracting too much attention themselves and, above all, without being the subjects of such obtrusive pity as will disturb them.
This enables them to avoid without much difficulty what they are apt to consider the intrusive and obtrusive sympathy of friends.
This natural arrangement saves the imagination from being disturbed by any yawning or obtrusive gap of time, notwithstanding the lapse of so many years in the interval.
Tis thus the world's obtrusive wrongs Obscure with malice keen Some timid heart, which only longs To live and die unseen.
Like the myrtle over a celebrated statue in Minerva's temple at Athens, it skilfully veiled from the public eye the only obtrusive feature of royalty.
Although the least obtrusiveof beings, his individuality always made itself felt.
Perhaps his obtrusive virtues made him enemies, and his rectitude was a standing offense to his associates.
With those confidences to his Maker this chronicle does not lie--obtrusive and ostentatious though they were in tone and attitude.
It is singularly stiff, ugly, out of place--at once obtrusive and insignificant.
The fresco of the "Magi" is less notable in detail, and in general effect is more spoiled by obtrusive blues.
But most deserts of actual nature are not all flat, nor all sandy; they present a considerable diversity and variety of surface, and their rocks are often unpleasantly obtrusive to the tender feet of the pedestrian traveller.
I mixed with the crowd, but was prevented joining in the conversation by the constant companionship of one or the other of my host's sons, appointed to keep me from obtrusive questionings.
The fresco of the 'Magi' is less notable in detail, and in general effect is more spoiled by obtrusive blues.
Barnabas, beginning to eye the man askance for all his obtrusive mildness.
The pounding of her heart seemed to fill the still room with obtrusive sound.
Her deep affection for him, while not obtrusive or ostentatious, seemed to express itself in her tender glances, the soft cadences of her voice when she addressed him.
She's putting it on, I suppose," suggested Hugh, who in a less obtrusive fashion was nearly as cynical as his host.
As one passes out into the surrounding squalor and obtrusive poverty, it is impossible not to moralize as to the costly, theatrical, and ostentatious road which seems to lead to the Roman Catholic heaven.
