Use "obtuse" in a sentence

1. “Sorry,” he said as he entered, “Sometimes the staff can be quite obtuse

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2. The angles become more obtuse

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3. to what appeared to be a deliberately obtuse question

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4. to tell if the man was being deliberately obtuse, and

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5. She ended up calling him obtuse,

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6. aggravating ways, her obtuse view of the world and how things were, Heather still

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7. ‘I don’t mean to be obtuse or such,’ said Janice

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8. Whether the Redguard ever realized how pettily obtuse she was being or not, he would not cater to or indulge it DRAFTChapter 8 129

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9. Mother was rambling from the start of the obtuse conversation

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10. General Rubin entrenched his forces in a disused Bacardi distillery, with rough trenches built at an angle obtuse to the approaches

11. This is too much! I must be spiritually and morally obtuse because these hackneyed storylines seldom seem to ―move‖ me

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12. At other times you speak of obtuse philosophical questions with more sophistication than I could

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13. Some of these may seem slight, obtuse, even petty, and I beg the

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14. The firm, uniform, rhythmic flight, from the obtuse hillsides mending the bluish summits, thinly at first, then extending, energetically, the fabulous ailerons allowing him to glide on the tiny greenish heads of the trees and the transparent threads of the rivers, similar to the hair of a woman lifted to the wind

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15. Heterosexuals are sometimes very obtuse

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16. However, Jersey was being his typical obtuse and obnoxious self

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17. Shimon, a solidly-built man with a rather obtuse appearance, hesitated but finally walked away, glancing from time to time behind him to see what Yeshua was doing

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18. without being overpowering and obtuse

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19. � He came to attention once inside the room and saluted Robertson, a solidly built man but also an officer that could be quite obtuse

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20. Seeing that Robertson was even more obtuse than she had expected, Nancy decided to take off the gloves with him at once

21. While she was still proud to be a Canadian, she was much less proud of the present government of her country and of the obtuse, biased security officers it was throwing in her path

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22. ‘’Without baffling you with our usual, obtuse military jargon, Madam President, I can tell you that these pictures show that the Chinese have effectively occupied the Senkaku Islands and that they are in the process of landing sizeable garrisons on them

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23. ‘’A YOUNG OPPORTUNIST, A WOMAN WITH 7,000 YEARS OF LIFE EXPERIENCE? ARE YOU STUPID OR SIMPLY OBTUSE, SECRETARY DULLES? THIS MEETING IS OVER! NOW, GET OUT!’’

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24. He was not however obtuse or blind and knew too well about the infighting within the kingdom

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25. Try to keep from doing anything obtuse, said Ben

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26. Perhaps she was obtuse

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27. He tested her and was as enthralled as everybody else but could not explain her achievements as she was able to answer his questions including obtuse mathematical problems filling a blackboard even before he had finished writing the question

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28. You are being very obtuse today and it’s getting late’

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29. Then there was the obtuse stuff

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30. Venarya recognized that she was deliberately being obtuse on the details, and respected Yazril�s privacy despite her curiosity

31. She also says that she’s not trying to be intentionally obtuse, but she will relay as much information to you as she thinks is prudent

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32. But wouldn’t she be happier here with Samir? He might be obtuse about his feelings, but there was a lot more to recommend him

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33. When I think of Poseidon and of his hostility towards Ulysses, I think of a god who is obtuse, unfair and domineering

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34. Specially after keeping in mind the people she lives with, in her house; your obtuse parents, the heartless you

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35. No, in that way you’ll never create a New Science! Of course, it shouldn’t be either let “desecrated” and “profaned” by such dilettantes as myself, but there must be some limit for the obtuse stubbornness that makes it impossible to see and discern in the outer reality even the most obvious manifestations of Consciousness on the part of all possible “Fields” created and explored by you — this is

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36. Netanyahu, for a man of phenomenal IQ with degrees from MIT and Harvard, is phenomenally obtuse

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37. But, her obtuse behavior the day before, when she purposely kept

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38. Those who think of monogamy as something imposed on human nature through external authority, a sort of strait jacket of emotional restraint, are obtuse to the overwhelming testimony of human nature

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39. The other corner was disproportionately obtuse

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40. To this Sancho made answer, "Indeed those gentlemen the judges that send you to me might have spared themselves the trouble, for I have more of the obtuse than the acute in me; but repeat the case over again, so that I may understand it, and then perhaps I may be able to hit the point

41. What sort of an obtuse, self-absorbed friend had Madeline been to have missed something like that? Just because Celeste didn’t walk around nursing black eyes and split lips didn’t mean there hadn’t been clues, if she’d just bothered to notice them

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42. To compete with phrasemongers, incapable of thinking consecutively for sixty seconds? To submit himself to the criticisms of an obtuse middle class which entrusted its morality to policemen and its fine arts to impresarios?

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43. "I have been very obtuse, Watson," said he

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44. “Obtuse? Me? God, you’re challenging

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45. Marian, primed to a humorous mood, would discover the queer-shaped flints aforesaid, and shriek with laughter, Tess remaining severely obtuse

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46. She was being obtuse on purpose, he thought

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47. “Because they’re waiting to see if you’ll actually use it, you obtuse prick!” my father shouted back

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48. This type of configuration, looks like an obtuse angle (greater than 90 degrees)

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49. “She needs to buy something to have an excuse for having been here,” the Mechanic said wearily, like he was accustomed to the yellow-haired man being obtuse

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50. But though Rakitin was very sensitive about everything that concerned himself, he was very obtuse as regards the feelings and sensations of others—partly from his youth and inexperience, partly from his intense egoism

51. I then see before me those obtuse faces, those rich eligible girls whose looks seem to say:

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52. Head large, broad, oval, obtuse, very distinct from the neck, nearly two inches long, flattened, coppered brown above, and covered with large, smooth scales; yellow underneath, as well as the neck, and with rhomboidal smooth scales

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53. Back flattened anteriorly, a little angular in the middle, covered with small rhomboidal, obtuse, keeled scales; those of the sides larger and smooth, not keeled; centre of the back of a brownish copper colour; sides of a bright copper; broad bands or rings, becoming forked on each side, and assuming nearly the shape of a St

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54. Tail short, tapering gradually, about four inches long, cylindrical, brown, without spots, with 45 plates underneath, and having at the end a small, obtuse, horn claw, of an oblong, compressed, obtuse shape, and carinated underneath

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55. The leaves are few, but large, with very long petiols; they are nearly reniform, with an acute base, and have three nerves; the teeth are unequal, large, and obtuse

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56. strumarium; but the fruits are generally solitary; they are half an inch long, nearly cylindrical obtuse, with the two beaks scarcely perceptible and bent in, covered with short, thick, and rough thorns, rather soft, and not uncinate

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57. The leaves of the viridiflora being uniformly oblong and obtuse, the leaves of the other uniformly lanceolate and acute

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58. Catesby's variety with the ocellæ on the tail seems to be the least common; in general these spots, or epupillate ocellæ, are exclusively confined to a line on each side of the back, about six in each, extending from the base of the head to the origin of the tail, though there are sometimes scattered smaller ones on each side of the body, and upon the vertex of the head, they are of a beautiful reddish colour, enclosed by a definite black areola; the upper part of the body is brownish, with numerous, distant black points, and a slight vertebral, obtuse carina, the inferior surface of the body of a fine yellow or orange, with distant black points, the tail[37] is compressed, ancipital, attenuated to an obtuse tip, longer than the body, and punctured with black in like manner

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59. In one fragment of a crystal I observed a very obtuse acumination on the table, which appeared to be diedral, the sides being placed on the obtuse lateral edges of the tables

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60. The exterior valve of the calyx, in the perfect flowers, is ovate, obtuse, very thick, cartilaginous, the inner margin inflected, and deeply marked on its outer surface with from three to five corrugations, with longitudinal ridges between them; the interior valve is smaller, of equal length, acute, ruled, coriaceous, smooth, and with the inner margin also inflected

61. He has called the culm solid, leaves rather short, spikes cylindric, axillary, the flowers and rachis entirely smooth, pedicel of the neutral flower emarginate, outer valve of the hermaphrodite calyx acute, the valves of the corolla obtuse, and the styles very short

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62. They were short 4-sided prisms, with the acute lateral edges truncated at each extremity on the two solid angles of the most obtuse lateral edges, forming diedral terminations at each extremity of the prism

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