When he had got me into a seat, I fought and panted so terribly for air that even with his obtuseness he knew I was in a bad way.
No hint broke through my obtuseness of why they lingered.
A man could not be charged with suchobtuseness if he were only ignorant of some philosophical truth, or even of a fact commonly known, or if his mistake were clearly from inadvertence.
Beattie is severe upon Dryden's obtuseness in his translation of the "Iliad.
The simple, sweet-tempered obtuseness of her tone was an infuriating thing to him.
Some of it was addressed to his fate and some of it to the vulgar mercantile coarseness and obtuseness of other people.
But, don't you see, it made me possible for you again," and the actress smiled with that obtuseness which was pitiful because it would not see defeat.
We must pay the penalty of the obtuseness of others.
I am not sentimentalizing about stolid, brazen note-taking, such as that with which the gentlemen of the Ateneo debase their books, because that merely indicates barbarous lack of culture and an obtuseness which is Kabyline.
That makes no difference, no difference whatever," replied the clerk with the importance and obtuseness of the bureaucrat.
We may be able to tolerate stupidity and lack of comprehension when they are simple and wholly natural, but what of an utter obtuseness of understanding which dresses itself up and becomes rhetorical?
Similarly, among new peoples, provincial stupidity will often form a blend with an obtuseness which is world-wide.
Claire marvelled at the obtuseness of men; at the utter unconsciousness of this particular man of the reason why Mrs Willoughby's house should be the last one on earth from which his marriage should take place.
Obtuseness was not a defect with which Adelaide had much patience.
She marveled at the obtuseness of older people--to have stood at the red-hot center of youth and love and not even to know it!
With them, fault-finding and penalties abound, until the children are either hardened into indifference of feeling, and obtuseness of conscience, or else become excessively irritable or misanthropic.
And yet, they become objects of ridicule and rebuke to almost every member of the family, until their sensibilities are tortured into obtusenessor misanthropy.
And once again he reflected on her apparently permanent obtuseness to values.
Her obtuseness to the real situation was so terribly healthy minded that it was almost a disease; the awful candour of soul of bishops' daughters and pastors' wives appalled him.
I need only recall my own obtusenessto the subject, before the story of the spider sharpened my senses, to realize that these confessions of a nature lover may bore every other person who reads them.
It was some time after this conflict between my curiosity and his obtuseness that I saw my teacher act a ridiculous part in a trifling comedy, and then I remember no more of him.
Thou wilt now be able to reprehend the malice or obtuseness of thy deputy, and to do me right in my contention with these impure dogs.
Heavens," exclaimed the Philosopher, "the obtuseness and arrogance of these creatures!
Obtuseness to the beauty and meaning of Nature sinks us to the level of the brutes.
It is from neglect to open our hearts to Nature, that obtuseness comes.
Affectation is worse than obtuseness, for obtuseness is at least honest: it may mend its ways.
Perhaps this apparent obtuseness on the part of gentlemen arises from the well-known fact that many of the ladies themselves indulge in the cigarette, though rarely in public.
Even where it is a case of obtuseness to other civilisations, at least as high but of a different type, the verdict cannot be wholly unfavourable.
Its extreme, its bat-eyed obtuseness is to be explained in another way.
It is difficult to conceive the obtuseness of intellect necessary to misconstrue so obvious a piece of mock petulance and dry humor into an instance of mortified vanity and jealous self-conceit.
Boswell, with his usual obtuseness with respect to Goldsmith, accuses him of being jealous of the puppets!
It is not natural obtuseness of mental faculty that we are attributing, all this while, to the uneducated class of our people, in thus exposing the defectiveness of their discernment between right and wrong.
Indifference and obtuseness at the capital entailed weakness on the frontier and in the provincial capitals.
The incredible obtuseness of those who attend within tea-houses.
These climbers have shown infinitely greater obtuseness before Alpine realities than the peasants derided by them.
Far be it from me to join in the thoughtless generalizations about the obtuseness of the Alpine peasant which have disfigured some of the literature of climbing.
The monster is not outside ourselves; it is created and sustained by the hardness of our hearts and the obtuseness of our brains.
I find an obtuseness as to the spirit and aim of the book, as if you had designed to make the best novel of the season, or to keep up the reputation of one.
We see that as soon as Rodbertus comes up against the real problem, the capitalist aggregate product and its movements, he exhibits the Utopian's characteristic obtuseness in respect of the historical peculiarities of production.
