| Moonlight is always picturesque, because it substitutes mass and breadth for the obtrusiveness of petty particulars. |
| Birds are admirable weather prophets, and from their number and obtrusiveness have furnished many examples. |
| Western officials say local obtrusiveness is still hampering efforts to speed up refugee returns. |
| This self-confidence, however, is a very different thing from boldness or obtrusiveness. |
| But in all this freedom and variety, spontaneity must not run into obtrusiveness, and variety must be saved from disorder. |
| The houses have some of the pertness, rawness and obtrusiveness of youth, but it is not the youth of the backwoods. |
