My tolerance for such obviousness is low right now. From Wordnik.com. [Oook « Lab Kat] Reference
The issue of obviousness is somewhat of a red herring. From Wordnik.com. [Patent Impending] Reference
His penchant for exploitive obviousness is in full tow. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 1/5.] Reference
… This is the kind of obviousness that a child can see. From Wordnik.com. [The Muse in the Machine] Reference
It cannot be stressed strongly enough that "obviousness" is a legal concept that is completely independent of "patentable subject matter.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
No, the Supreme Court ruling in question should be from the the KSR case, which helped set a higher "obviousness" bar to clear. From Wordnik.com. [BNET Articles] Reference
Thanks for noting the obviousness of my statement. From Wordnik.com. [Chart: Polls In Super Tuesday States Show McCain Has It Made] Reference
His pain, and the obviousness of his pain, stays with you. From Wordnik.com. [From Dracula to Nixon] Reference
Unlike, say, the no-brainer obviousness of Rhonda's storyline. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Blankenship: The Big Review: Big Love Season 3, Ep. 4 (Spoilers)] Reference
Then, in a paroxysm of obviousness, he married a brewery heiress. From Wordnik.com. [Seth Greenland: Scamps vs. Dorks: Why Do We Want to Have a Beer with the President?] Reference
Of course, there's a certain obviousness to the post – Sept. 11 change. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Snaps Back to Action] Reference
It's not even the style so much anymore, as the obviousness of wearing them. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Nereo: The Straight Nope: Big Glasses] Reference
And yet, with all its obviousness the thing itself is often forgotten by the young. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
I would guess that because of the obviousness of her tactics she will ultimately lose. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce Genaro: Vote for April] Reference
A good reporter does not edit tape with the malicious obviousness that Sean displayed. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen C. Rose: How Sean Hannity Lost The Election for the GOP] Reference
Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington constituting an ensemble of obviousness. From Wordnik.com. ['Iron Man 2': Rust Never Sleeps] Reference
The patent office refused the request because of "obviousness and lack of inventiveness.". From Wordnik.com. [India News Digest: No Signs of Reverse Migration From Gulf - RBI] Reference
"'The purpose and character of the use' prong doesn't include an 'obviousness' requirement. From Wordnik.com. [The Register] Reference
Bink had the impression that obviousness was a worse affront than fabrication, to this person. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
Do not hold your breath, however, waiting for the obviousness of that point to be acknowledged. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Advisers See Need To Improve His Efforts With Blue Collar Voters] Reference
There is a level of obviousness to these so-called "innovations", that they've become ubiquitous. From Wordnik.com. [Microsoft Co-Founder Launches Patent War] Reference
My favorite example, despite it's obviousness, is John Cusack holding up his stereo in Say Anything. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Wilstein: Top 5 Funniest: Pee-wee Herman, Cee-Lo, Jerry Stiller and More (VIDEOS)] Reference
After a pause, with an obviousness that sunk him into an even deeper gloom, she changed the subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Our so-called entertainments are what stand in for our current events (quotes left out for obviousness). From Wordnik.com. [Richard Laermer: Today's Question: How'd it All Get So Mediocre?] Reference
But the John Hopkins renaming ranked high for its combination of sly self-mockery and head-smacking obviousness. From Wordnik.com. [Overdue name change at Johns Hopkins timed for April 1] Reference
But what is striking about many of the most-wanted 30 is the obviousness of their artistic originality and strength. From Wordnik.com. [Iraq's (Most Precious) Most Wanted] Reference
They may seem plain almost to obviousness; but it is enough that they involve all the disputed questions of the case. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
It is to the wholesome obviousness of Dickens that we owe the atmosphere of good cheer that surrounds his characters. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
I would be there and he would be there and the whole obviousness of the situation would become that much more apparent. From Wordnik.com. [4/14/03 angry at people] Reference
Those manufactured for the stage and the anecdote-books betray their artificial origin in their breadth and obviousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
The obviousness and permanence of the Irish representation in Parliament is apt to cause its significance to be forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland and the Home Rule Movement] Reference
If he offers any thoughts new, just, and important, they have rather been overlooked for their simplicity and obviousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society] Reference
It may be said in extenuation of Dickens that the blemish of obviousness is one which he shared with the world he lived in. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
A suggestion recently made to me appears to dispose of all difficulties; and, once made, is convincing in its very obviousness. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference
Elsewhere he takes care to keep the proceedings real instead of allowing them to slip in the direction of laugh-chasing obviousness. From Wordnik.com. [Good Times, Bad Times] Reference
This assertion is almost trite in its obviousness, but as will be argued is critical to an understanding of the current conjuncture. From Wordnik.com. [CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FACING WORKERS AND UNIONS: THE ROLE OF THE ANC] Reference
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