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"obtuseness" Definitions
  1. the fact of being slow or unwilling to understand something

53 Sentences With "obtuseness"

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Did their moral obtuseness come from amoral fathers or grandfathers?
In terms of immediate human suffering and sheer moral obtuseness, yes.
Some of this self-parodying obtuseness is more cringey than cute.
I'm honestly in awe of the mental gymnastics and intentional obtuseness pic.twitter.
This seems like some sort of evolutionary artifact of aging: obtuseness to youth.
Disdain for her obtuseness, sympathy for her naïveté, affection for her good heart?
It takes a special kind of political obtuseness to fall for Trump's bait.
We also quickly get a sense of his confidence, obtuseness and whiff of arrogance.
The obtuseness about the political costs of war casualties is not limited to the Republicans.
Is Lindsay's perceived obtuseness the sign of an internal enlightenment to which her friend could aspire?
The obtuseness of his actual content aside, I reckon Louis C.K. knows exactly what he's doing.
The question, "What is it to be human?" is not just narcissistic, it involves a culpable obtuseness.
Here, however, is where we confront the breathtaking obtuseness of this President and anyone working in his service.
The cant of victimology no less than the obtuseness of sexual victimizers is subjected to a live dissection.
It's a game that got me thinking about hardness and softness, opaqueness and transparency, accessibility and total obtuseness.
In a fraying America, perhaps the one thing that can bring unity is the obtuseness of the business press.
The obtuseness is not the challenge here; most of us come to the theater primed to see pedophiles as delusional.
We often quiz its built-in digital assistant, Alexa, at the dinner table, marveling at its enervating mix of smarts of obtuseness.
Well-intentioned intelligent people can have this major obtuseness around the possibility that what it means to be "good" couldn't be more constructed.
Trump's total ignorance of the law -- whether willful or just from sheer obtuseness -- is, at this point, a defining characteristic of his presidency.
Despite decades of cannabis activists pointing out the moral obtuseness of cannabis prohibition, it wasn't peaceful protests or well-worded arguments that won the day.
The persistence of Michael even in Dorothy drag, and later vice versa, is charmingly handled, helping us get past both Michael's obtuseness and Dorothy's unlikeliness.
For Trump to congratulate Putin on stealing an election that involved suspicions deaths and imprisoning of rivals surely signifies a deep strategic and moral obtuseness.
On Sparkle Hard, he casts off much of the obtuseness and cultural in-jokes in which that's usually couched for more overt social critique and observation.
On Sparkle Hard, he casts off much of the obtuseness and cultural in-jokes in which that's usually couched for more overt social critique and observation.
You could argue that such obtuseness is appropriate for a play that considers the blindness not only of love, but also of cultural and sexual imperialism.
" No wonder she finds that the "obtuseness" of this position is "laughable," a product of James's "troublesome intellectual compromises," leading to a 19th-century version of "psycho­babble.
On a trip to Detroit last spring, I met a professor of political science who seemed to believe that "elitist" obtuseness had lost Michigan for the Democrats.
The message, according to prosecutors, was an attempt by Mr. Stone, a Republican political operative and longtime adviser to President Trump, to advise his associate to mimic Pentangeli's obtuseness.
I was a correspondent in Moscow at the time I read Talbott's speech, and I remember being struck by its obtuseness—a feeling that has remained with me since.
"That idea of 'Do the right thing' is the opposite of the culture of shamelessness, cynicism, greed and moral obtuseness underlying the unending scandals engulfing Albany," Mr. Kaehny said.
Somehow that general obtuseness and vague malaise became a wildfire of faith so fierce that some were willing to go to their death for the sake of what they'd seen.
Last week, in light of the Giants' bungling of and cold-hearted obtuseness towards Josh Brown's domestic violence incident, she opened up about her past and being a victim of domestic violence.
Mr. Stringer's findings echo an even more scathing report, from the Department of Investigation, which found not just great obtuseness at City Hall but also stonewalling and the suggestion of a cover-up.
Insofar as the deliberate obtuseness of "the present" is the whole point of the book, I was delighted to have uncovered some germane connective material here applicable to our present, our own now.
"Eastbound" rarely sentimentalized the unregenerately nasty and narcissistic Kenny Powers, but "Vice Principals" takes a softer approach with Neal, whose boorishness and obtuseness are somewhat redeemed by his attempts, however misguided, to actually do his job.
Feminists responded to the "redistribution of sex" talk with a mixture of horror and wonder: horror at the real-world implications of this strangely abstract and antiseptic discussion, wonder at the sheer obtuseness of those pushing the idea.
While advocating assassination is the exception among the "resisters," let's allow that failure to acknowledge many of the president's charges about the undeniable efforts of so many to obstruct his administration or cast it in the worst light possible is less obtuseness and more coolly calculated partisanship.
My family and I lived in Rome for four years, and when we moved back to New York in 2008, it was not easy to find guanciale, or cured pig cheek, carbonara's essential ingredient, even though we're in Brooklyn, rightly mocked and loved as the navel of foodie obtuseness.
Larry Kudlow, head of the National Economic Council, suggested Sunday that Trump's rhetoric against Trudeau may have been an effort to show strength before his meeting Tuesday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "In fact, he was demonstrating moral and strategic obtuseness," the Post wrote of Trump.
I would submit that the Trumps lie in two ways: first, by directly and intentionally saying things they know well aren't true, and second, by obfuscating with linguistic obtuseness, by overusing a nebulous relativism and by spouting an excess of superlatives to stand in for meaningful description and disclosure.
The recognition that the op-ed section pushed a steady stream of disastrously conceived ideas out into the world took a back seat to the sheer obtuseness of Stephens and Weiss, both bad writers whose ideas and arguments typically play out at the level of high school English papers, and undistinguished ones at that.
They had a daughter named Caecilia Metella, like all the women in the family of the Caecilii Metelli. Celer's reputation was dogged by the scandals attached to Clodia. A contemporary poem by Catullus "may refer to Celer's marital ineffectiveness and obtuseness".Gruen, p. 131.
Sir William Moore Johnson, 1st Baronet, KC, PC (1828 – 9 December 1918) was an Irish politician, barrister and judge. He was held in great affection by the Bar, despite a reputation for obtuseness which led to his nickname "Wooden- headed Billy". He was also described as "a monument of kindness and stupidity". He was the son of Rev.
General Charles-Auguste-Louis Warnet (1828–1913) In December 1885, disgusted with de Courcy's obtuseness, General Briere de l'Isle submitted his resignation and returned to France. Shortly afterwards de Courcy's chief of staff General Charles-Auguste-Louis Warnet (1828–1913) also asked to return to France. The army ministry belatedly realised that things were very wrong in Tonkin. It refused Warnet's resignation and instead recalled de Courcy to France on 16 January 1886.
Due to the obtuseness of the Roman people the show proves a failure, but Onofrio takes the chance to start an affair with the beautiful and free spirited singer Olympia. One night, while walking around the ruins of the Forum to find a suitable spot for sleeping together, they notice a drunken coalman who is a perfect sosia of the Marquis. Onofrio decides to play one of his jokes by switching roles. He instructs his servant to have the inconscious man dressed up as himself, while he will play the part of Gasperino the coalman.
His salary was $500 a month as compared with only $267 at Harvard ($3200 per year). Later in a letter to Wilko Machetanz, his Tarkio roommate, Carothers expanded on his feelings of depression: "I find myself, even now, accepting incalculable benefits proffered out of sheer magnanimity and good will and failing to make even such trivial return as circumstances permit and human feeling and decency demand, out of obtuseness or fear or selfishness or mere indifference and complete lack of feeling."Hermes, Enough for One Lifetime p.86.
Strachey is critical of Manning's underhand manipulations in attempting to prevent Newman being made a Cardinal. The background features of Florence Nightingale's story are the machinations of the War Office, and the obtuseness of the military and politicians. Influenced by Sigmund Freud, Strachey depicts Florence Nightingale as an intense, driven woman who is both personally intolerable and admirable in her achievements.Florence Nightingale, Monica E. Baly and H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2015 Dr Arnold is hailed as an exemplar who established the Public School system.
A December 6, 1966 session for "Cabin Essence" was the scene of an argument between Van Dyke Parks and Mike Love after the latter requested that Parks explain the meaning of the lyrics he was to sing. Parks later said the event marked the point in which he started distancing himself from the project. Love was skeptical of Parks' lyrics, and worried that they would not be appreciated and understood by the group's fans. The obtuseness of the lyrics led him to adopt the term "acid alliteration" when describing them.
James S. Donnelly, Jr., wrote, "while genocide was not in fact committed, what happened ... had the look of genocide to a great many Irish." Cecil Woodham-Smith claimed that while the export policy embittered the Irish, this did not implicate the policy in genocide, but rather in excessive parsimony obtuseness, short- sightedness, and ignorance. Irish historian Cormac O' Grada rejects the term, stating that the English exhibited no desire to exterminate the Irish and that the challenges for providing relief were enormous. W. D. Rubinstein also rejected the genocide claim.
Not only this, but she ranked fairly low in the social pecking order among the white women in Pankot and suffered numerous indignities. A symbol of this retrospection is that their preferred conveyance is the Tonga, a horse-drawn carriage in which they choose to sit facing backwards, "looking back at what we're leaving behind". It falls to Lucy to navigate a path between her husband's obstinacy and obtuseness and the increasingly pressing demands of India's slow transition to modernity. The question of who pays the gardener, for example, requires the skilful management of human relationships.
In 1901, William Wrede identified the "Messianic secret"Jesus' secrecy about his identity as the messiahas one of Mark's central themes. Wrede argued that the elements of the secretJesus' silencing of the demons, the obtuseness of the disciples regarding his identity, and the concealment of the truth inside parableswere fictions and arose from the tension between the Church's post-resurrection messianic belief and the historical reality of Jesus. There remains continuing debate over how far the "secret" originated with Mark and how far he got it from tradition, and how far, if at all, it represents the self-understanding and practices of the historical Jesus.
Mitchievici, "Voyages symbolistes", p.96 These accounts were rediscovered in 2007 by the literary critic Angelo Mitchievici, who calls them a mix of impressionist literature and Decadent prose, with nods in the direction of Rodenbach's Bruges-la-Morte, and utterly opposed to the standards of literary diaries.Mitchievici, "Voyages symbolistes", p.95-96, 98-101; Decadență..., p.73 However, Karnabatt remained a conservative among the Symbolists, opposed to the fashion of artistic primitivism, and locked in disputes with the primitivist half of Tinerimea Artistică salon. Already in 1910, in what later critics have read as a sign of his obtuseness, Karnabatt ridiculed Constantin Brâncuși over his modern primitive sculptures, Sagesse and The Kiss.

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