If Mount Dunstan was restive under the obviousness of the fact that help was so sorely needed, he might feel less so if her offer was only one among others.
Here we must have recourse to elementary feelings of human nature, and to truths which from their very obviousness are apt to be slighted, till they are forced upon our notice by our own sufferings or those of others.
Not inappositely may be here repeated an observation which, from its obviousness and importance, must have been frequently made--viz.
I believe errors of this description to be far more frequently committed than is generally supposed, or than their extremeobviousness might seem to admit of.
The detection is always complete, and made with the certainty and skill of a philosophical experiment, and the obviousness and familiarity of a casual observation.
It is easy to forget that the transparent obviousness of his style was attained only after many years of groping.
This is sufficiently easy and sufficiently obvious, and has been done, with varying success in one way or another, time and again, but its very ease and obviousness should give us pause.
What this meant was that nothing that pertained to the mystery of marriage reached us through all the suppression and evasions of the social conspiracy, except the obviousness of maternity.
The real business of a young lady in Taylorville was getting married, but to avoid an obviousness in the interim, she played the piano or painted on satin or became interested in missions.
But that magnificent anarchy cannot, at the inception of the human Charter, take the place of the obviousness of equality.
She appears to be more struck by the vehemence of my tone than by the obviousness of what I say.
Eppie couldn't quite have told herself why its obviousness was so crude; in all her former experience such obviousness had never been so almost funnily out of the question.
The sermon had the naiveobviousness and the sweet seriousness of a child telling a long tale of imaginary adventure.
I suppose you knew my father very well," said Michael at last, blushing as he spoke at the uninspired obviousnessof the remark.
The obviousness and permanence of the Irish representation in Parliament is apt to cause its significance to be forgotten.
It may be said in extenuation of Dickens that the blemish of obviousness is one which he shared with the world he lived in.
It is to the wholesome obviousness of Dickens that we owe the atmosphere of good cheer that surrounds his characters.
The obviousness of this further contradiction is paralleled only by its inevitableness.
There is a white heat of feeling, however, under the play that to some degree makes one forget its rather indifferent writing, its failure to attain true dramatic speech, its obviousness as of a morality play.
As I think over the unevenness of these essays, the beauty of "Still Waters," and the obviousness of these others, I am brought back again to wondering what Sharp would have done had all his time been his to do as he would with.
The very coarseness and obviousness of the contradiction sustains them in this conviction.
Thus it lasted for eighteen hundred years, and it reached the present point,--the complete obviousness of the fact that there is and there can be no external definition of evil which would be obligatory for all men.
