What you feel when faced with their obtuseness is what they feel when faced with challenging information. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist] Reference
Oversensitivity and deliberate obtuseness is a terrible combination, Seixon … you might consider trying to address at least one of those character flaws. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Putin Jabs Bush: ‘We Certainly Would Not Want…The Same Kind of Democracy As They Have in Iraq’] Reference
Though as my watch of the series progresses, it looks like his obtuseness is the real thing. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
Your obtuseness is showing. maynardGkeynes says. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Estate Tax History] Reference
Similarly, among new peoples, provincial stupidity will often form a blend with an obtuseness which is world-wide. From Wordnik.com. [Youth and Egolatry] Reference
Dharniel sighed, shaking his head at Eric's obtuseness. From Wordnik.com. [Music to My Sorrow]
Oswald marveled at the obtuseness of this eminent barrister. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Blame this obtuseness on the staying power of familiar crusades. From Wordnik.com. [THE TROUBLE WITH FANNIE] Reference
With masculine obtuseness he chose the most unpropitious moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
"I think I have stamina and a certain amount of obtuseness," he says. From Wordnik.com. [SMALL TIME INVENTOR] Reference
He thus shows his obtuseness, or his subordination to a higher power. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
My spiritual senses gain their acuteness or obtuseness from my affections. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
His coldness, his obtuseness, infuriated her even as it gave her new hope. From Wordnik.com. [Butchers Hill]
Thai's obtuseness, to become a pleasant and embracing cacophony of good will. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
I am troubled by that, as I am by any sign of moral obtuseness among Japanese. From Wordnik.com. [Our Neighbors Called Us 'Japs'] Reference
It was also supposed valuable in cases of heaviness and obtuseness of intellect. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
"Of course not," she answered, irritated by what could only be deliberate obtuseness. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of Expectations]
Then we like to blame our friends or the fates for our poor judgment and our obtuseness. From Wordnik.com. [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference
It was only the insensate obtuseness of the gull which prevented Ugolino dying of laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
I merely suggest that zealotry of this type is often a sign of moral obtuseness, not acuity. From Wordnik.com. [Quayle And 'Family Values'] Reference
Any fudging of the lines between the two is an act of intellectual obtuseness and/or moral cowardice. From Wordnik.com. [Michael J.W. Stickings: Right-Left Equivalency and the Inside-the-Beltway Stupidity of Howard Kurtz] Reference
It displays a willful obtuseness about the world that, anti-Semitic or not, is clearly something else. From Wordnik.com. [A Question Of Anti-Semitism] Reference
"And their preposterous obtuseness! why, a man with half an eye might see the folly of such presumption.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,] Reference
Mr. Herbert Giles accounts for this Chinese obtuseness, or, as some would have it, opacity, in much the same way. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
"Yes," cried the young engineer impatiently, not relishing the apparent obtuseness of the man outlined before him. From Wordnik.com. [Five Thousand Dollars Reward] Reference
That attitude, said a Fides editorial, "confirms the obtuseness of the regime in understanding full religious liberty.". From Wordnik.com. [A Catholic Crackdown] Reference
Roskill was vexed at his own obtuseness: it was so simple and logical an explanation to the two men's identical reaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Alamut Ambush]
Any tears shed were not for Green, but over the obtuseness -- as they saw it -- that led him to alienate much of his base. From Wordnik.com. [A Warning Shot From Latin U.S.A.] Reference
The origin of this national obtuseness of mind on a question of interest, is to be found in the system of taxing the land. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
I do not wish to be discourteous BUT, persistent obtuseness cloaked in sentimental self-indulgence serves only to irritate. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The Archbishop of Canterbury continues to demonstrate his quite extraordinary moral obtuseness when it comes to the Middle East. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Yet we concede the right of others to think differently on these points, without being suspected of moral obtuseness or obliquity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
So when he reached the path he slid down from his horse without thinking things through, and stopped, annoyed at his own obtuseness. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
But where Marge's apparent obtuseness concealed a glittering intelligence, Trixie reveals nothing behind those big, blank saucer eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble In Mind?] Reference
The humour of either would have danced round the crass obtuseness of the deputation and the mingled wrath and amusement of the minister. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
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