| 单词 | obtuse |
| 例句 | Now, when he was on fire with his Cause, Arthur’s justice seemed bourgeois and obtuse beside him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In math I spent the entire time thinking about how Momly's arm was probably at an obtuse angle when it broke. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Though I knew he had been drinking, I wondered that an educated man and an observer could be so obtuse—could create such an embarrassing situation for a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He was so obtuse he did not realize the implied insult in his astonishment that a black man could do anything but say “yes, sir” and mumble four-letter words. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z What had made her so blind, so obtuse? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was as though his eyes were holding their breath, while his mother looked at him, her face flaccid and querulous, interminable, clairvoyant yet obtuse. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I love the way you just made that completely obtuse. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Perhaps this was the son of one of their friends—but this kind of subterfuge was pretty obtuse, even for them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Mother noticed the rest of us sitting openmouthed and snapped, “You are so obtuse sometimes, Alfred. We’ll discuss it later.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Yes. Don’t be so obtuse. Did they taste good?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There seems to be a “spirit” of acute angles, a “general outline of the whole” which allows them to remain acute angles even in cases where they behave as if they were obtuse. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z "In China, the man who famously once described racism as 'a disease of white people' describes the 'industrious, filthy, obtuse people' he observes," the Guardian reported. Albert Einstein was known for speaking out against racism, his travel diaries reveal racist views 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z What once seemed obtuse and alienating now comes across the way Coleman probably always heard it, as bluntly emotional and unpretentious as the blues. Lighting Out for the Territories With Ornette Coleman 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Grateful: Maybe I’m being obtuse, but I don’t see why it’s so important that you not disclose to your sister what you overheard. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Grieving a miscarriage and getting help from an unlikely place 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z You can’t compromise between a reasonable concern and an insistence on being obtuse. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Fiance is in�trac�table about changing his timetable on having kids 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z A far cry from the blockbuster “Jurassic Park” franchise, “The Mountain” is a slow-paced film that writer-director Rick Alverson made deliberately obtuse to force viewers to “wrestle” with to find its true meaning. Jeff Goldblum wants to pick your brains in lobotomy movie 'The... 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Of course, all of this is misinterpreted by others around her as her purposefully being obtuse and making trouble: if that isn't a universal autistic experience, I don't know what is. My neurodivergent reading of "The Little Mermaid": Ariel is autistic, and Eric has ADHD 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z But Final Fantasy XIII-2 is so obtuse in some ways that it forces those sorts of choices. Video Game Review: Final Fantasy XIII-2 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 2012-02-03T23:25:27Z In his best-known work, “The Overwhelming,” Mr. Rogers sent members of an obtuse American family into civil-war-torn Rwanda, where they spent what might mildly be described as a season in hell. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z “Lily came by her obtuse optimism honestly, and it later served her well,” Ms. Moffat writes about Lily Forster, in a deftly understated tone that, to Forster’s devoted readers, will sound apt and familiar. Books Of The Times: ?A Great Unrecorded History? of E. M. Forster by Wendy Moffat 2010-05-17T22:28:00Z Two stars of the New Wave are still rolling along. 's po-mo puzzle Film socialisme is stubbornly obtuse, even by his gnomic standards. Film socialisme; Last Year in Marienbad ? review 2011-07-09T23:05:54Z Her expression remains neutral even when touching on incendiary topics such as police brutality or when answering obtuse questions from white people as though to indicate a certain Weltschmerz. “The Hate U Give”: Angie Thomas, Children of Promise and the girl in the mirror 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z There’s no way I could have anticipated that not only would we have a president this obtuse, but this most recent thing, separating children from their families in terms of these border crossings. ‘Luke Cage’ Season 2: A New Villain and Respectability Politics 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z “What an obtuse statement from James Patterson. He best pick up books & educate himself on what racism is,” she wrote. James Patterson claims White male writers face ‘another form of racism’ 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Then again, the psychological isolation that made him so inscrutable may well also explain why at times he could be staggeringly obtuse. Lord Browne: 'I thought being gay was basically wrong' 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Burton, wearing tinted glasses and his familiar dark threads, genially fielded most of the questions from journalists from around the world, who asked questions ranging from the modestly thoughtful to the embarrassingly obtuse. Film: Cannes Runs a Bit Short on Stars This Year 2010-05-13T21:44:00Z Memorable characters, taut storytelling and the most obtuse, intriguing mystery since Twin Peaks made Lost as much of an instant hit as 24 was three years earlier. Jacking it in 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z The MPAA's rating system, which have been around for nearly 50 years, is obtuse, and this controversy is not without precedent. Bo Burnham refused to edit R-rated “Eighth Grade” into PG-13 and advises teenagers to “snea... 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z It's strange and obtuse, but absolutely succeeds in its primary intent: to establish Roland and his larger quest, to find the Dark Tower and the Crimson King. Rereading Stephen King week 13: The Gunslinger 2012-12-13T10:17:38Z You may want to be as obtuse as a symbolist or as matter-of-fact as Dr Williams; the choice is yours. Poster poems: Prose poems 2011-08-12T09:28:45Z That definition might seem to be obtuse, but there’s a simpler one. The universal power of empathy: The science behind why everyone loves Adele 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z For me, “The Wire” presumed, maybe naively, that nobody would be so obtuse as to think that it was an argument against self-governance and the city as the American future. “You tell me that the riots are a good thing? F*ck you. Come to Baltimore and say that”: David Simon on police brutality, the legacy of “The Wire” and the future of American cities 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The aphorism is defined by its monadic quality, its obtuse resistance to being teased or elaborated. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z As the attention-deficit candidate for our times, Trump should win this election, since his opponent is obtuse enough to think that issues still matter. Trump’s great TV comeuppance: The very thing that created Donald Trump is destroying him 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z You’re not crazy; your daughter is being obtuse at best or, at worst, greedy. Carolyn Hax: Uncle’s feelings for children unequal, but should his treatment of them be? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Her narration, she said, was meant to be ironic and self-mocking — "I find it very funny, almost obtuse." Retreat of the 'Tiger Mother' 2011-01-15T04:14:04Z These representational biases may not be deliberately enforced, but with every minority– or gender-related scandal that rocks the film industry – from Oscars So White to Harvey Weinstein – it becomes increasingly obtuse to ignore them. How failed racial politics sink George Clooney's Suburbicon 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z In policy matters, he proved obtuse, recommending, in one of his first initiatives, a blanket cancellation of all trade imposts. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z It made for a typically obtuse vision of cultural apocalypse. | Givenchy Wins! 2011-01-24T23:48:50Z Photograph: PR @DrGiggles Without a doubt Primer is the most obtuse film I've ever seen – it was as entertaining as reading a book on advanced calculus. What's the best arthouse film that makes no sense? 2010-10-20T11:00:00Z One is Ben Brantley's obtuse and hostile review in the New York Times. Enron's failure shows Broadway's flaws 2010-05-05T12:30:00Z “They will look at it, and some find it quite shocking and obtuse. But many of the men say, ‘build it higher.’” Two Cities, Two Countries, Common Ground 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Those obtuse triangles she wove for that must-have pillow appear too in tender gouaches on paper, locking into gray and salmon parallelograms like the teeth of a zipper. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z But if Sebastian and Grace need to be obtuse a little longer than feels plausible, it’s worth it to draw out this delight. Four Winter Romance Novels Find Love in Hopeless Places 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z At times Selin is cripplingly self-aware and at others frustratingly obtuse. Elif Batuman’s Alter Ego Goes Back to College. Her Minor: Overthinking. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Henry realized it wasn’t that his lyrics were obtuse, but “that my delivery system doesn’t vibrate at this frequency. But she knew how.” Joe Henry and the Art of Disappearing Into a Song 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Ron Burgundy, we presume: Will Ferrell is back as the obtuse newscaster in the so-so 2013 sequel "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues." TV This Week Sept. 7 - 13: 'Boardwalk Empire' on HBO 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z What sump of literal-mindedness must subtend a sensibility so obtuse as to miss the fact, even on the first page of this essay about the curdling of nineteen-sixties counterculture, that the telling doesn’t work? The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Nice-looking, reasonably successful, he loves his wife, but is too obtuse to notice her descent into suffocating despair until it’s too late. Gemma Arterton: ‘Everyone in the industry knows I'm a pain’ 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s exactly this mix of precise reality and obtuse cliche that allows the film to flourish. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Distinguished Citizen 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The friction with the label led the band to begin releasing material including the obtuse and at times self-indulgent Odditorium or Warlords of Mars, a creative leap but a commercial and critical question mark. The Dandy Warhols' This Machine: The Indie Rockers Go Goth 2012-04-25T16:00:53Z Many deliberately obtuse white Americans object to the slogan and organizing title “Black Lives Matter,” because they feel it is exclusionary. The absurd outrage over Jussie Smollett 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Barnes’s view of Shostakovich conforms in every detail to the sentimental Cold War fable of a passive, pathetic yet saintly figure buffeted by an obtuse, implacable force. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z “Running” has its rough edges: the characters can seem willfully obtuse, and some dramatic shifts could be better worked out. Fringe Festival in Review 2010-08-18T21:22:00Z In person, speaking at the Toronto international film festival, the 34-year-old is disarmingly alert – quick to answer a question with a question – but never difficult or obtuse. Jesse Eisenberg on Woody Allen, anxiety and fatherhood: ‘Now I get to worry about something visible’ 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The man may be a vain, ethically obtuse, generally clueless buffoon, but it would not occur to him to allow a fictional character on his air to sell a product. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z There’s a particularly obtuse moment in which massed Wakandan troops—the only troops who are allied with the Avengers at large—enter battle. Review: What “Avengers: Endgame” Could Have Been 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z But even when medicated and fully functioning, Carrie is conflicted and uneven, insightful and compassionate when it suits her, obtuse and unfeeling when that suits her better. ‘Homeland’ Begins Its New Season on Sunday 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The widow is irritated by the reflex praise of her circle of acquaintances for a dead man who now seems dull and obtuse. The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z These stretches of obtuse and icky lyricism eventually become at best a wash of caustic anger and at worse, hilarious. Lou Reed and Metallica Go Loopy on Lulu 2011-11-01T09:00:11Z But this is a feature-length thriller, and it needs to buy some time and build suspense, so the faithful wife is obliged to be very, very obtuse and draw some very foolish conclusions. ‘Intrusion’ Review: We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z And so now it is not naivete, it's not being obtuse. D.L. Hughley: The ultimate Black superhero would have the power "to make white people believe him" 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z The comments were needlessly cruel, but they were also critically obtuse. All hail Melissa McCarthy, Hollywood's indestructible comic superwoman 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Her narration, she said, was meant to be ironic and self-mocking — “I find it very funny, almost obtuse.” Cultural Studies: Retreat of the ?Tiger Mother? 2011-01-14T23:39:11Z “Don’t be misled by a marketeer’s purposely obtuse description into believing that your sofa is a reconstituted field of organic soybeans. It’s not.” Misleading furniture labels: How to tell whether you have the real deal 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z “Oftentimes, these cases are long and obtuse and require a lot of time,” she says. Black families once lived off their southern farmland. Their descendants are struggling to hold onto it. 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Now, it is highly obtuse and ungracious to find fault in the right decision being made for an arts prize – especially when this so rarely happens in any medium. Cannes 2012 roundup: why the jury's Amour for Haneke was an anti-climax 2012-05-28T10:01:04Z All of this is broached, though often in language that is both maddeningly dispassionate and morally obtuse. Review | Trump has tried to coopt the Army. This new museum shows why that won’t be easy. 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z It's also part of marriage to communicate openly and often about important things, especially when 50 percent of it is being obtuse. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Gay teen is not here for Grandma’s disappointing lack of support 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z The Scherzo, with its obtuse iteration of a Baroque bass line, lives on color contrast, and the Philharmonic players offered plenty, from cobweblike string tremolos to gleaming brass evoking the tolling of feast-day bells. Alan Gilbert Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Colbert will retire his Comedy Central character — a pompous, obtuse conservative TV host — but keep interviews in the CBS show. TCA 2014: CBS chief Nina Tassler grilled on casting diversity 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It's a difficult structure not because it is complex but because it is obtuse, and it leaves us to wonder about the relationship of the characters, the point the novel means to make. Okey Ndibe's 'Arrows of Rain' splits its powerful message 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Flying Dog, the Bruery, Victory and Great Lakes place a suggested best-by date, instead of the more obtuse but common “bottled on” date, on their labels. Beer of the Week: Lagunitas Born Yesterday 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z This is also similar to an obtuse argument put forth by detractors of Black Lives Matter, both the slogan and the hashtag. Perspective | J.K. Rowling’s Twitter comments about transgender women treat equality like it’s a zero-sum game 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z Titus Kaphar uses thick fields of black tar to encroach on the morally obtuse prettiness of Impressionism, forcing viewers to confront the cost of European wealth and luxury — in large measure derived from global exploitation. Review | African American artists embraced modernism. But the art world didn’t embrace them. 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z It's hard to tell here if Tesman's just an obtuse, henpecked fool — or if he's aware his wife despises him, and is making the best of a bad bargain. In Intiman's 'Hedda,' we don't feel her pain 2012-07-17T23:27:06Z “Einstein” is a word sometimes used as a synonym for genius, often sarcastically, as when you reply to a friend’s obtuse idea with “Nice theory, Einstein.” Why Roz Chast Makes Fun of White Middle-Class New Yorkers 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z But, like any massive group of human beings, we are smart, stupid, driven, lazy, honest, corrupt, insightful, obtuse, compassionate, cruel, fascinating, dull, fun, boring and every gradient in between. How to handle anti-Americanism when you travel 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Following the announcement, Dylan refused to publicly acknowledge receipt of the prize—a continuation, perhaps, of his willfully and delightfully obtuse approach to fame and accolades. A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z We have entered the land of the obtuse. Review | Jenna Blum’s ‘The Lost Family’ is lost in needless detail 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z What is your most unappealing habit?Saying that people are being deliberately obtuse when they don't agree with me. Q&A: Romola Garai 2013-02-02T08:00:41Z Mechanical Bull might be a bit of a stinker, but they can take heart from the fact there are plenty of records from the annals of time that were far more obtuse. Can bands be trusted to name their own albums? 2013-06-19T13:50:47Z Ari’s omission—he could just have said “people”—is indicative of what is blinkered, obtuse, one-sided, and retrograde about the movie. The Silent Women of “Entourage” 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z I like to think of these commenters as sweetly naive rather than deliberately obtuse. 10 common comments on feminist blogposts – and my responses 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z He is large, a little ungainly and charismatic without quite being handsome, and somehow able to seem at once exquisitely self-conscious and utterly obtuse. | 'Everything Must Go': A Picture Window on a Life Turned Inside Out 2011-05-12T21:43:02Z Previous interviews have suggested he's incredibly shy or obtuse. Tame Impala: a trip inside the head of main man Kevin Parker 2012-10-05T23:03:00Z It is a movie with right on its side, and never was that right proclaimed more shrilly or more smugly, or with a more obtuse insistence on privileging soft-focus personal over political relevance. Fair Game ? review 2011-03-10T15:00:00Z With such a consciously exotic idea at the film's heart, it may be obtuse to ask for plausibility but there's an atonal symphony of false notes in the drama and performances. 'A cauldron of iffy acting' 2013-03-20T15:56:11Z It is a perfect epigram for those sullen beauties with their obtuse and obstructive ways, hired to do front of house in upscale commercial galleries. Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z The title, “I Can Make You Feel Good,” sounds like a cure or a come-on, but really its meaning is less obtuse. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The men in her life are complicated, difficult, at times impossibly selfish and obtuse, but they are permitted to be interesting in ways that she is not. Review: Ethan Hawke Is Just Right as a ’90s Indie-Rocker in ‘Juliet, Naked’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Our policies in Afghanistan and Iraq were similarly obtuse. American Blindness, Abroad and at Home 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z So I had this idea of playing with a certain spatial awareness, and a balance in the rhythm, and remembering your themes and bringing things back in obtuse ways. Jon Batiste and Wynton Marsalis Prize John Lewis, and Each Other 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Which is why the new musical “The Visitor” feels so obtuse and helplessly dated. Review: ‘The Visitor’ Lags Behind the Times 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Though that may seem like pretty basic advice, it conveniently escapes the obtuse quintet at the center of this crummy shocker. Horror thriller 'The Damned' an exercise in dumb moves 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z He was obtuse about whom to blame, other than a vague “them”, but he was emphatic about the solution: “We need to get this country straight again.” What I learned after 100,000 miles on the road talking to Trump supporters 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The thing about which his mother was most obtuse was Forster’s sexual orientation. Books Of The Times: ?A Great Unrecorded History? of E. M. Forster by Wendy Moffat 2010-05-17T22:28:00Z For a case in point, look at the moment when – during an obtuse argument about the data leak – an apparently human Bernard asks Theresa if she is ok. Westworld recap: episode seven – it's Ford vs the board! 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Suspicion of infidelity kicks off “The Winter’s Tale,” in which Tucker’s volatile, and obtuse, patriarch Leontes rules over a frat party-style royal court. ‘Hedda Gabler’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’: 2 Takes That Shout Subtext 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Brundage, whom the movie portrays as politically savvy but morally obtuse, negotiates the terms of American participation with Goebbels to allow limited participation by Jewish athletes. Review: ‘Race’ Chronicles Jesse Owens’s Rise to Olympic Glory 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z As a result, the evening oscillates between periods of lyrical beauty and patches of obtuse dryness. ‘Healing Wars’ at Arena Stage depicts veterans’ struggles through dance “There were lyrics in that song that I was sure would go by the wayside because they were too obtuse for a pop song,” he said. Joe Henry and the Art of Disappearing Into a Song 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z It verges on obtuse, though it doesn’t seem willfully so. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How do you get over your disillusionment about your parents? 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Anyone this obtuse would probably also respond poorly to being called on it. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mom calls off your baby shower so you can plan sis’s bridal shower 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z And Reed is obtuse in another, more significant way. All hail Melissa McCarthy, Hollywood's indestructible comic superwoman 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z With Melia, Bayard skillfully draws a heroine whom readers understand better than she understands herself, without making her aggravatingly obtuse; he then allows her to develop over the course of a book. There’s a glut of bunnies and dead moms in children’s books 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z To be the trailing partner of a white guy who, for all his good qualities, could be obtuse about race? Review | Alexandra Chang’s ‘Days of Distraction’ experiments with form to reveal the complexities of modern life 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Between that kind of activism and any form of accountability one finds a buffer of obtuse pseudo-theory, a convenient layer of cerebral anarchy. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z As Carmen, Melissa Barrera is beautiful but somewhat blank, an obtuse mystery next to Mescal, his face having the shape and solemnity of a Roman statue, but eyes that repeatedly betray his pain. ‘Carmen’ Review: We’re Not in Spain Anymore 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z "Syro" will arrive through Warp Record on Sept. 23; it will feature a typically obtuse cover from longtime Warp designers Designer Republic. Friday coda: 'Anaconda' booty, Talib Kweli vs. CNN, Aphex Twin blimp 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z They maintained a deadpan cool for much of the second movement of the A minor sonata, where the musical material is simple to the point of being obtuse. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Zankel Hall 2014-03-05T23:16:12Z In saying that, I wouldn't want to suggest that Saint-Exupéry is obtuse or confusing. Reading group: Wind, Sand and Stars – brilliantly uplifting 2012-11-09T15:57:26Z This is an extraordinarily obtuse strategy, of course, on the part of the Russian authorities. Category Close-Up: A Tough Call in the Foreign-Language Race 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Not to be obtuse, but the only thing you’re really showing are these black markings on the page. She was nervous versus she bit her fingernail. “The World Without You” 2012-06-29T20:06:00Z He is unfathomable: he can surprise you or be obtuse. One fan's mission to Lars 2012-06-02T22:01:47Z Julia Raeside For those who prefer their Watsons to be bluff, obtuse, red-faced men with walrus moustaches, the casting of Lucy Liu in the role in this American take on Sherlock Holmes has caused conniptions. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 12-16 November 2012-11-12T08:09:51Z But given their lines, it’s impossible for them not to register as grotesquely obtuse variations on the limousine-liberal guilt junkies from the slyer, fuller plays of Wallace Shawn. Review: A Put-Upon Nanny Erupts in Todd Solondz’s ‘Emma and Max’ 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The scandal had played out in all the newspapers, in which Wright came off as obtuse and entitled, if not morally bankrupt. Review | A look at the forces — and tragedies — that shaped Frank Lloyd Wright 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The decision has just come out — the opinion was short, but it was obtuse; it made it sound like the case was still alive. The Dan and Dave Show 2010-12-11T00:04:00Z All About His Mother: No, your husband is being obtuse. A mother who has to spend Mother’s Day at the mother-in-law’s 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Now they’re “flying blind,” as Bill says to her in bed, taking her wrist and feeling for a pulse in his obtuse way and remarking “there are no instruments, no points on a graph.” 'Masters of Sex' Recap: For Virginia, Work = Love 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Allen can be, at best, naive and, at worst, obtuse. 'Do I really care?' Woody Allen comes out fighting 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Yet the language around it stays small and obtuse. Doug Paisley’s Winter Melancholy on “Starter Home” 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Watson needs to be clever to untwist the obtuse questions, all the while coping with Trebek's folksy conversation. Meet Watson, the computer set to beat Jeopardy's champions 2011-02-06T00:05:33Z “I don’t avoid questions about my life because I am trying to be obtuse,” he said. Orville Peck, a Masked Gay Country Star, Rides Into Brooklyn 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z “You have a more obtuse angle between your forehead and your nose here,” he said, smoothing a finger between the middle of his brows. 'I just want to see the person I always saw in my head': the story of a face 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z So, in true obtuse style, the novella I perhaps liked least has become the most famous, through its film adaptation. Rereading Stephen King: Different Seasons 2013-01-15T11:10:21Z What more is there to say about TV’s most gloriously inept and obtuse local newsman, except that every single thing he says is pure, unadulterated comedy gold? These Are the 25 Best Minor Characters on 'Parks and Recreation' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z “I don’t want to say they were being obtuse, but it was the most secrecy I’ve ever encountered.” Ritchie Coster on Playing the Drunk Mayor on 'True Detective' 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Having waited so long to make the transition to recording artist, Tabor's next big move seemed obtuse. June Tabor: watery, not grave 2011-02-10T22:30:01Z The viewers find it baffling and obtuse and they boo at the end. Cannes diary: day seven 2012-05-22T13:56:07Z This prize is, for me, fantastically obtuse, exasperating and dumb. Cannes 2015: baffling set of prizes take the edge off a great competition line-up 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z She fares best with descriptions of her friends’ reactions, which range from tenderly loyal to egomaniacally obtuse. Books Of the Times: The Shock Of Losing A Spouse 2011-02-14T05:27:15Z I realize the baseline problem is that your husband is being obtuse, but it is really, really okay to tackle that problem later, when you aren’t already drained. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Baby, don’t go — taking a 20-month-old on a night out 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z At a Binghamton University protest, a brazenly obtuse student declared that “Israel is worse than Nazi Germany.” Ancient hatred finds new life on campus | Chris Churchill 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z If the quality of our understanding of what's really important is as obtuse as it seemed this past weekend, I can understand why Biden doesn't want to engage with us. Trump vs. Biden 2024 will be all-time ugly — and the media's making it worse 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Root cause: Rachel is abruptly touched by an obtuse ob-gyn at the hospital shortly before the birth of her first child. These TV women aren't on the verge. They've gone over the edge 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z The writer’s comment that folks who don’t like it can “leave for the weekend or take a day trip” is obtuse and more than a bit entitled. Blue Angels: Leaving to escape noise is a luxury 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Last year, Trump — in typically obtuse style — even scheduled a tournament at the New Jersey club on Sept. 11, drawing outrage from the families of 9/11 victims. Trump and the Saudis: Is Jack Smith finally looking at this clear-cut corruption? 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z But ultimately the pithy, slightly obtuse, answer to why do these things is just because you can. No route, no rules - the secret race though Death Valley 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Frustrated: With someone obtuse, you have three basic options: ask, tell or play bingo. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Spouse fears for wife’s safety on nights out with friends 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z And mentally thank your friend for being obtuse enough to force you out of the habit of politely explaining yourself instead of just saying no. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Newly inked and facing an in-law who openly hates tattoos 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z I do still, many months later, have no answer for why people are so insistently obtuse about treating someone in a way they’d never stand to be treated. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Relatives refuse to call trans sister by feminine name 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z They also criticized the Navy for being obtuse about their crew’s mental health needs. Report: 3 U.S. sailors have died by suicide since December 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The report says that Trump brought up the issue on at least three occasions but in such vague and obtuse ways that no senior official regarded his words as an order. Analysis | Jan. 6 committee yet again debunks Trump claim of 10,000 troops 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The second half of the Colts’ season now seems to many around the league more an obtuse sociological experiment than an attempt to win football games, considering this unusual string of events. Analysis | Jim Irsay has unleashed mayhem and misery in Indianapolis 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Suddaby’s order, which will be appealed, seems particularly obtuse and tilted against any restriction. Opinion | Conservative judges’ new gun-law rulings show ‘originalism’ beyond parody 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Walrus Among Otters: People can be educated and still be wrong, blind, obtuse or stunted. Advice | Carolyn Hax: How to deal with in-laws’ constant fat-phobic comments 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z George is amusingly obtuse about most everything — work, family, political beliefs — in a way that speaks to the cold calculus that converts humans into numbers on a spreadsheet. Review | Signature’s ‘No Place to Go’ finds its way thanks to its charming star 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z For whatever reason, however, Mr. Youngkin has seemed blind to the pitfalls of racially obtuse appointees, and they have become a problem for him. Opinion | Youngkin stokes Virginia’s divisions with racially obtuse appointees 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z As the number of murders climbs, Dupin finds multiple motives among the scholarly suspects, all of whom are being frustratingly obtuse with investigators. Review | 5 mystery books to cozy up with as the sun sets on vacation season 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z At her new restaurant in California, Tung treats every question, no matter how obtuse, as an opening to explain the island’s unique history and culture. Your Thursday Briefing: Liz Cheney, Out 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z More shocking is that 47 Republican House members voted for it and several morally obtuse GOP senators say they will back it. ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ is the latest example of the left’s outright lying 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z However, in the diagram, angle appears to be an obtuse angle and may be greater than 90°. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Knowing what we now know, this seems naive if not obtuse. Opinion | How could so many have missed what is now so obvious? 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, naive, ill-informed and obtuse leaders from more distant lands often needed to have the obvious explained to them. Opinion | The death of Shinzo Abe is a loss to the U.S. and its allies 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Some viewers found Lindsay-Hogg, with his talk of shooting a live Beatles show in Libya, obtuse. Peter Jackson takes us inside the process of making 'The Beatles: Get Back' 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z “Music videos need to be a bit obtuse, have a bit of complexity to them, so that as you watch it a third, fourth, fifth, sixth time, you’re getting something new.” The 'November Rain' music video defined a generation. Inside its 'bonkers' production 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Yes, the rollback process can be unnecessarily obtuse. Should the Russia-based Kaspersky anti-virus software be removed from PCs, and what is the easiest way to uninstall Windows 11? 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z As I've grown older, the mass shootings have continued, growing more deadly — if that is possible — and more obtuse. I haven't gotten jaded or cynical about mass shootings — but it's getting harder 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z It's too ingrained in our lives — ignored, and sometimes encouraged, by members of Congress who won't confront the issue for a variety of obtuse reasons including greed, narcissism and ignorance. Biden calls out "domestic terrorism": That's important, but is it enough to shift the narrative? 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z With the exception of the tiny minority who are as morally calloused, intellectually obtuse and politically motivated as James, most Americans surely think as Murray does: “Why walk ‘proudly’ into an abortion clinic? Opinion | America’s abortion debate has non-debatable parameters 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z This rating is an obtuse way to express the features and theoretical maximums of the wireless speeds from the router but doesn’t indicate what speeds you’ll actually see when you use it. Eero Pro 6E review: what will you pay for great Wi-Fi? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z If you already know that games install into the app drawer on Android by default, it can feel like relearning an unnecessarily obtuse way to access your content. The Black Shark 4 Pro is all-in on gamer stereotypes 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z At a time when experimental music can feel foreboding and obtuse, “For McCoy” is lyrical, inviting and ever-changing. Eiko Ishibashi and the melodies that carry ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z I was first amused but then annoyed by a reader’s complaint that the words “irredentist” and “revanchist,” at the start of an article about Ukraine, were “so obtuse” that she had to look them up. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: There’s no need to belittle Biden 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z This obtuse language is designed to speak to the religious right base while causing everyone else's eyes to glaze over. With their QAnon circus as cover, Republicans covertly unveil plans to undo decades of settled law 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z If you make no progress and/or if he sticks to willfully obtuse false-equivalency BS about not brushing teeth, then talk to a therapist — you, solo. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Husband gets defensive when his spouse asks him to stop ‘tickle-torturing’ son 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z They are so obtuse, I was sure spellcheck had checked out. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Confusing use of the word ‘propaganda’ 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z “I’m at a loss to explain how they could be so obtuse when they put out that lineup,” López said. National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists chides CNN for lack of representation on CNN+ 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Some pundits have criticized Biden for being foggy, befuddled, obtuse or obsequious in his first televised address before the nation. Biden sounds the warning, and the fog of war descends: How bad will it get? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Many of the newer strips are often more obtuse and, truthfully, not that funny. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: What we got wrong about a potato plague 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The obtuse nature of the "Durham report" is typical of right-wing conspiracy theories, as anyone can attest who has tried to figure out what the hell "Benghazi" is about or what the QAnoners believe. Trump's new "spying" Clinton conspiracy theory is a success as cowardly mainstream media confounded 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z The platforming puzzles are fun to complete but can be frustratingly obtuse. Horizon Forbidden West’s incredible world is easy to get lost in 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Advocates for the reforms, which limit when officers are allowed to use force or pursue fleeing vehicles, have said law enforcement’s reading of the bills is obtuse and overly broad. Traffic tickets in WA are way down, yet traffic is returning to normal 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z The pandemic is surely the focus of the most obtuse and ignorant public reactions and state and local policy responses to any crisis in American history. Column: Farewell to 2021, the stupidest year in American history 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Immediately, those asks seem like a tall order from companies that have been intentionally obtuse about accurately representing their data in the past. Why Red Notice was able to beat Bird Box as Netflix’s biggest movie debut ever 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z A moral lesson lost on our ethically obtuse city government. Opinion | The right to decency does not end at the jailhouse door 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z The theme is oddly specific and perhaps a little obtuse, sure, but it's undeniably satisfying when you’ve finally pieced together your own personal ecosystem that starts netting you points like some machine made of birds. The Verge’s 2021 gaming and entertainment holiday gift guide 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z The film has obvious problems, but I found the critical reaction to be often obtuse when it wasn’t simply bullying. The highs and lows of the new movie musical boom 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z The charges he made are distortions, but one charge, that Lee was dishonorable because he was a traitor, was particularly obtuse. Opinion | The meaning of the man and the monument 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Devi’s relationship with Ben encourages her to extend empathy toward those she has written off, while Paxton’s often obtuse behavior teaches her to stand up for what she deserves. Analysis | The teen love triangle is a complicated TV tradition. ‘Never Have I Ever’ actually pulls it off. 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Misogynos gets into a public dispute over which gender, male or female, is the more morally obtuse — guess which side he takes? — an argument he loses. Commentary: Marilyn Monroe statue in Palm Springs is an offense to Pride Month 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z When The Washington Post asked a number of Republicans on Capitol Hill whether they agreed with McCarthy’s statement that no one questioned Biden’s legitimacy, the response was sometimes obtuse and indirect. Republicans’ conflicting message: Embracing Trump election lie is key to prominence, just stop asking us about it 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z It chooses to align itself with evangelical Christians and the most committed of Israel's supporters among Jewish Americans, who are every bit as unyielding and obtuse as their Christian counterparts. What ties the U.S. and Israel together? Our arrogant, doomed mythology of exceptionalism 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z It is also instructive, how the sport keeps spinning its history forward, providing an example of the glory possible if only more of the obtuse, misogynistic attitudes would cease. Twenty-five years ago, the U.S. women won basketball gold and established a legacy 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z The governor wasn’t being obtuse; he thought he was being clever. Opinion | ‘I didn’t realize’ may be Cuomo’s best defense, but it’s a weak and offensive one 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Speaking of obtuse, marketing misogyny as a tourist draw ranks right up there. Commentary: Marilyn Monroe statue in Palm Springs is an offense to Pride Month 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z A renowned white critic and his obtuse complaint about a Black curator’s show vanished into thin air. Review: HBO doc captures the quest to make Black artists invisible no more 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z From Washington’s suffering soldiers to obtuse school administrators — 243 years downhill. Opinion | The sensitivity sweepstakes of 2020 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Most of us are pinning our hopes on the science involved in both precautions and vaccinations, even as others remain perplexingly obtuse. Editorial Roundup: Tennessee 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The Eero Pro 6 is rated as an AX4200 system, which is an obtuse way of describing what its peak networking speeds are. Eero Pro 6 review: less pro than expected 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z The California attorney general is a somewhat obtuse fit for the top health job, having a background as a lawyer rather than in health policy. ‘An abortion activist plain and simple’: Biden HHS nominee tests GOP’s pro-life resistance 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z His main weapons appear to be whining and making comically obtuse proclamations on Twitter, in the vain hope that someone mistakes them for law. Clown coup: Trump's effort to overthrow democracy as well-run as his business (and presidency) 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z The logic is as clear as it is obtuse when offered as a sufficient justification for not voting on an accomplished moderate jurist nominated 237 days before the 2016 election. Opinion | Hypocrisy and constitutional etiquette 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Dr. Hotez also criticized obtuse statements released by government officials, including U.K. regulators who he said failed to supply a rationale for resuming their trials. AstraZeneca, Under Fire for Vaccine Safety, Releases Trial Blueprints 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z “But VA is being purposefully obtuse, and they’re purposely misdirecting people as a way of avoiding responsibility … they put veterans on almost a literal trial.” Jon Stewart urges health-care law for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The responses to Attorney General Bill Barr’s remarks this week were even more obtuse. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z In 2018, a math teacher at Friends Seminary, a private Quaker school in downtown Manhattan, was fired after he demonstrated an obtuse angle by pointing his arm forward and saying, “Heil Hitler.” A Quaker School Promoted Liberal Values. Then Its Teachers Unionized. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Plemons has a less showy but equally tricky task: He must be mellow and prickly, recessive and domineering, intelligent and obtuse. Review: 'I'm Thinking …’ is another marvelous, melancholy mind trap from Charlie Kaufman 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z “We often behave in quite obtuse and fragmented and destructive ways, which is not particularly helpful.” Blanchett on Venice, virus and why lessons weren’t learned 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z It would be obtuse to ignore an obvious, new revenue stream. Mulan’s move to Disney Plus proves how quickly the pandemic forever changed entertainment 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z It seems to me that scholar Barbara Fields is amazingly patient but a little weary through her good-natured, nuanced and deeply informed responses to what are rather flat-footed and obtuse questions. Perspective | A critic’s suggestions for art with added meaning during a stay-at-home pandemic 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Protesters demanded the government deliver on a promised relief package and attacked it for being obtuse to their suffering. Israelis angry at Netanyahu over new outbreak, economic pain 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z He found their work to be both morally obtuse and bad in economic terms. Column: Farewell to USC's Ed Kleinbard, 68, a peerless champion of the public interest 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Yes, maybe Trump is obtuse enough to believe that. Opinion | Trump’s articles of impeachment — updated 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z He thinks that taking the contrary position makes him courageous, when really it just makes him obtuse. Opinion | Trump the Troglodyte 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z "Context: As a Latino that's not obtuse and understands what the Surgeon General is trying to say, ie: giving tips to save lives, I did not find this offensive," Townhall.com senior writer Julio Rosas said. PBS's Yamiche Alcindor mocked for confronting surgeon general over 'offensive' remarks appealing to minority groups 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Yet that is the result, cruelly predictable and entirely unnecessary, of an obtuse pair of rulings Monday on the eve of elections in Wisconsin. Opinion | Wisconsin’s debacle may be the most infuriating of the coronavirus failures 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z "Sen. Murphy is either being intentionally disingenuous or is obtuse," the NRA's director of media relations, Amy Hunter, told Fox News. NRA fires back after Dem calls disabled cancer survivor's gun video 'sickening' amid coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z This was a strangely obtuse debate between two disputatious old men. Sanders and Biden were far apart on how to survive the disaster ahead 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z “This isn’t financial. This is not some obtuse thing on a screen. Schools may close. I may not be able to get pasta or oatmeal.” Coronavirus Fears Reverberate Across Global Economy 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z But you have to learn not to be obtuse.” Josh Thomas on diversity, autism and pitching to America: 'You have to be very vocal' 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z While it may seem like an obtuse premise, “Death Stranding” achieves a compelling feeling of solitude, rare for a video game. Gaming is now an art for everyone: The best games of 2019 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z With their humor, Perugini said the hosts are aiming for something close to Michael Scott, the chaotically obtuse manager in the NBC sitcom The Office. Teachers star in Waterbury arts high school food review show 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The automaker just pointed us to an obtuse privacy policy. What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out. 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z “How can you be so obtuse and blind?” They grew up rooting for the Redskins. Now they’re cheering for the Ravens. 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z It’s kind of amazing how many people are just making crazy obtuse music and throwing it online. How Keith Rankin balances illustration with owning an indie record label 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z “If there is a legitimate issue, there’s no excuse for the Justice Department being so obtuse. Just tell us what’s going on.” Marine Vet Freed by Iran in 2016 Sues U.S. Over Unpaid Compensation 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z During the interview process you will likely be asked outright, or in some obtuse way, the salary you expect. Doing this one thing right can add $750K to your career earnings | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Both can be obtuse, leaving players frustrated with the game’s lack of direction. Halloween gaming: These horror video games will keep you up tonight | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z They can tell I find their situation bizarre and I sense they in turn find my questions bizarre, as if their answers are obvious and I am being obtuse. Is it OK if someone wants to live for years on a bench? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Is he really that obtuse, clueless, lacking in self-awareness or even common sense? Letters: This UCLA story isn't the right style for many readers 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Historically illiterate, morally obtuse, and willfully misleading, the speech portrays religious people in the United States as beset by a hostile band of “secularists.” William Barr’s Wild Misreading of the First Amendment 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The supernatural elements are obtuse but appropriately creepy as patients and nurses are picked off. Review: Psychology, the supernatural and Shane Carruth meet in incoherent ‘The Dead Center’ 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Sadly, Allen and Snyder are either too arrogant to admit it, or too obtuse to recognize it. SNYDER: Redskins’ formula works for Allen, but everyone else is on their own 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z That is part of the appeal, for some, to make sports an obtuse distraction from reality, but any suggestion that sports used to be uncoupled from culture and politics is myth. The League They Told You Not to Worry About 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z But with their sometimes obtuse nature and unforgiving difficulty, older games won’t necessarily have much lasting appeal for everyone. Sega Genesis Mini review: the best tiny console yet 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z “Say more, every day, without fail, so it becomes common knowledge, lest we forget for a single day, the autocratic, despicable, heartless, obtuse being who misgoverns this country.” 'A second Trump': Bolsonaro's offensive rhetoric adds to Brazil's discomfort 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Should you act pre-emptively to avert disaster, opening yourself up to accusations of being pathologically anxious, or keep calm and carry on at the risk of seeming at best obtuse or at worst selfishly destructive? How the climate emergency could lead to a mental health crisis | Anouchka Grose 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Arms control, creating verifiable treaties to limit and reduce nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, had its mystique: obtuse concepts, exotic hardware and mind-bending negotiations. Opinion | A nuclear treaty is about to vanish. Its demise should teach a lesson. 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z But it’s also being frustratingly obtuse in its presentation, saying that its own daily usage numbers “are not comparable” to other companies’ daily usage numbers, because other companies count differently. Twitter’s growth looks way better now that it’s hiding monthly usage numbers 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., meanwhile, lunged to Trump’s defense with an obtuse tweet chiding critics who “interpret” racism in Trump’s remarks. Recent Missouri Editorials 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Rebecca Traister, a writer-at-large for New York, told me, “It’s obtuse to say ‘Let’s have an investigation’ and pretend that solves it. The Case of Al Franken 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Yes, it was only a round of golf; to claim it as an elixir to the issues that have plagued the Emerald Isle is myopic and obtuse. Lowry's Open triumph, Koepka's frustrations on Holmes' slow play and Schauffele rips R&A for driver controversy: What you missed - Golf Digest 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z "It seems rather obtuse that we would deny people the opportunity to do this given that... it is, after all, their money," he added. Row over 'pension for homes' idea 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Though some offered replies of support and agreement, most considered Haney's tweets ignorant and obtuse, with a fair share of responses accusing Haney of unjustifiably taking a victory lap. Cantlay's Memorial magic, Lee6's breakthrough and Haney double downs on Korean comments: What you missed - Golf Digest 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z Though some offered replies of support and agreement, most deemed Haney's tweets ignorant and obtuse, with a fair share of responses accusing Haney of unjustifiably taking a victory lap. Hank Haney weighed in on a Korean named Lee winning the U.S. Women's Open. It didn't go perfectly - Golf Digest 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z There was a related issue, however, where the staff had intervened: Franken could be physically obtuse. The Case of Al Franken 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Which is to say: anarchic, obtuse, wildly creative, and just plain weird. A beloved relic of early 2000s internet is facing extinction 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The classic of the genre was a 2004 article with the obtuse headline “Despite Drop in Crime, a Rise in Inmates.” Mania for ‘criminal justice reform’ latest case of Butterfield Effect 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z These obtuse and high-handed governmental removals almost never concluded so peaceably. The Missouri River Flood Hits a Historic Native American Homeland 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z It sank sooner than the United States Football League, which was doomed by the obtuse overconfidence of the real-estate tycoon who became the 45th President of the United States. The messy and quick death of the AAF, Silicon Valley's complement to the NFL 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Discovering her grandfather’s secrets, Wilson says, has “made sense of things that never made sense before,” especially her acting career, which once seemed like “a weird and obtuse” choice in a family of jocks. Ruth Wilson on going bold in ‘Lear’ and her own secret family saga in ‘Mrs. Wilson’ 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z If a client is so obtuse and myopic as to not like one of your employees because of the way he or she dresses, there is a solution: Drop the client. Opinion | Hey, Goldman Sachs, does your new dress code allow thigh-high boots? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z At other times, he came across as willfully obtuse, the product of an alt-right echo chamber. The Chaotic Triumph of Arron Banks, the “Bad Boy of Brexit” 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Still, Richards and Stuever are right: Jackson’s music will evoke something very different now for all but the most willfully obtuse listeners. Opinion | Before you cancel Michael Jackson, listen to his music one last time 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The two can’t tie the knot because, as Camilla reminds her occasionally obtuse prince, “You were expected to find a proper virgin — and that certainly wasn’t me.” Review: In the new musical 'Diana,' the British princess seems as American as a Broadway musical 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z But Kuchar's comments, both in Maui and Los Angeles, were brazenly obtuse. Holmes called out for slow play during win, Kuchar jeered by fans, a promising weekend from Tiger and a golf legend dies: What you missed this weekend - Golf Digest 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Some creators are critical of what they see as fellow YouTubers skirting the platform’s rules or taking advantage of its obtuse algorithm. YouTube’s community is up in arms about butts 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z He weaves a bizarrely complicated fictional crime story, for example, to explain quantum entanglement, but the resulting narrative is so obtuse that it is difficult to comprehend. Review | The more we learn about the universe, the more mysterious it becomes 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z After two years of declining public confidence, that’s an astonishingly obtuse thing to say. How Much Trust Can Facebook Afford to Lose? 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z And, at times, these efforts can devolve into obtuse, bad-faith examples of nitpicking and false equivalence. Fact-check false equivalence: Washington Post rates Ocasio-Cortez as bad as Trump 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z The ones who know better see him as clever for twisting reality to frustrate his opponents, who become exasperated by his obtuse inability to understand reality. Arrogance and ignorance: Will the Trump family escape criminal charges because they seem too dumb? 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Last week, New York Times White House correspondents Maggie Haberman and Mark Landler wrote a similarly obtuse analysis piece about the migrant caravan as campaign issue. Caravan “invasion”: Corporate media ignores its own role in spreading panic 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Some concocted elaborate alternative sets of facts, or asked obtuse hypothetical questions, in service of willfully misunderstanding the story. I just got treated to a whole chapter in the book on ‘white fragility’ 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z It would be obtuse to call Widows a colour-blind exercise – it bristles with awareness of racial and economic difference, pointedly recalibrating the stakes of La Plante’s lily-white original. Widows: why Steve McQueen's slick thriller is an art-pop triumph 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The administration is being purposely obtuse in framing and proposing “solutions” to the “problem” of refugees from Central American countries. Opinion | They want jobs. We have jobs available. It’s as simple as that. 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Other notable epithalamia, from Edmund Spenser to E. E. Cummings , are just too long and obtuse to do the trick. Perspective | There’s no such thing as a good wedding poem 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z At this point, it seems as if lawmakers are either feigning ignorance or being willfully obtuse. Public records 101 for legislative task force 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Many times, seemingly obtuse decisions are related to an overriding goal. Trump’s ZTE details are murky, but motivation is clear 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z It's that kind of eager-beaver gullibility that shows Trump is obtuse enough not to understand when he's being played. Team Trump in chaos: Helsinki wasn’t enough — now Vladimir Putin’s coming to the White House 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Most of all, they want money, and Wilde’s film is less about the plot, which is loose, obtuse and meandering, and more about the images and aesthetic; this environment and its energy. Review: Lou Taylor Pucci enlivens wild and wooly 'Poor Boy' 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z But trolling can also encompass any kind of willfully obtuse nonsense that’s designed to confuse people. Don’t feed the trolls, and other hideous lies 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Recently released personal diaries revealed that in the 1920s Einstein described Chinese people as “industrious, filthy, obtuse” and resembling a “peculiar herd-like nation . . . often more like automatons than people.” ‘Little House’ Has Been Condemned 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z We said: Even chess seems flabby and obtuse next to the masterful elegance of Into the Breach’s micro-battles. The best video games of 2018 so far 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z “All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.” Chinese defend Einstein's portrait of their people as 'filthy' and 'obtuse' 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z According to a piece in the Guardian about the diaries, he describes Chinese children as "spiritless and obtuse", and calls it "a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races". Travel diaries reveal Einstein's racism 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z In China, the man who famously once described racism as “a disease of white people” describes the “industrious, filthy, obtuse people” he observes. Einstein's travel diaries reveal 'shocking' xenophobia 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Granted, a writer this obtuse to other people could not have written so many laugh-out-loud funny lines about her foibles, right? Review | A midlife crisis that includes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a threesome 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z For example, a notably obtuse member said that “despicable” rhetoric about freedom of religion had been used to justify slavery and the Holocaust. Opinion | There will be more wedding cake cases 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Trump was compared to an obtuse baby by one of the people at the Santa Fe, Texas meeting, according to the Associated Press. Trump just met with the mother of a school shooting victim. She compared him to a “toddler” 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z I realize the baseline problem is that your husband is being obtuse, but it is really really OK to tackle that problem later, when you aren’t already drained. Husband thinks toddler will be fine missing bedtime 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z And, you know, really this is just obtuse on Rebecca's part. In 'That Kind of Mother,' Rumaan Alam enters the thorny world of interracial adoption 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Eliot, writing at roughly the age of young Laertes, described this urgent yet somehow vapid dad as “full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse.” Opinion | Shakespeare was right: America should beware debt 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Rather, Minit leads you along in steady and accessible fashion, rewarding players for reading into a subtle line of dialogue and approaching obtuse obstacles with unique perspectives. Minit is a beautifully crafted love letter to classic games and the art of death 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z If you ask me, the weirder and more obtuse they are, the better. Villanova broke a 30-year-old record so emphatically that it should be illegal - Golf Digest 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z But it is blind, even obtuse, to place Trumpism in the same category. Opinion | This madness will pass. Conservatives can’t give up. 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Some of them clearly consider those on the other side of any given liberal stance to be racist, hateful, uneducated, nationalist, sexist, and plain obtuse. Opinion | Stop Apologizing for Being Elite 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The acute and sometimes obtuse angles of Bob Dylan’s career have teased and infuriated his public for more than half a century. 'Fire and brimstone': new compilation resurrects Bob Dylan's born-again phase 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Can he really be that obtuse, or is he just pretending? Opinion | Trump’s surrender 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The aesthetic is just right, but it's a bit too obtuse, mannered and affected to sink its hooks into you, and it keeps the audience at arms' length. Dead-on noir 'Los Angeles Overnight' fails to grab hold 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The blueprint for addressing the situation remains obtuse at best. Maternal Health Care Is Disappearing in Rural America 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Admittedly, labeling said malcontents as obtuse—or merely Tiger haters—is painting with a broad brush. Tiger Woods' return revives an old complaint. But does it have merit? - Golf Digest 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Following protocol, Martin said, “is a stupefyingly obtuse symbol, which undercuts the church’s mission to hold bishops accountable for their actions, particularly regarding the abuse of children.” Survivors of sexual abuse in Catholic Church decry the Vatican’s honorable funeral for Cardinal Law 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “But on the other hand, it’s really important to find the ways to get the people to understand what the film is, create trailers and materials that are interesting. Mysterious but, hopefully, not obtuse.” Paul Thomas Anderson and collaborators unravel the mysteries of 'Phantom Thread' 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Heat those molecules and they reorient themselves ever so slightly—the right angles become acute or obtuse—such that the material contracts. Shape-Shifting Metals Could Generate Electricity from Wasted Heat 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Health care is an inherently charged topic, and one that ordinary Americans can understand; tax policy is far more obtuse and clinical. Republicans, Entering Homestretch on Tax Cuts, Are Calm and Cooperative 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Again, it’s the kind of satire that, at this moment, feels dangerously obtuse and dated. The seven rages of David Mamet: genius or symbol of toxic masculinity? 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z They're just not used to them, so the encounter seems more obtuse!!! Do Lefties Have an Advantage in Sports? It Depends 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Are many men so obtuse they think treating women who are associates and companions as objects of desire is a badge of honor and manliness? ‘Revolt’ in France Against Sexual Harassment Hits Cultural Resistance 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z At the time, theological works were written in an obtuse dispositional style of Latin in which more was better. How Martin Luther became a publishing smash — and created books as we know them 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z When Obama announced his goal to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State, it sounded like an obtuse and conditional war aim. Opinion | The rubble in Raqqa reminds us of our military might. But what’s next? 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Begin with the sentiment itself, which is insultingly obtuse. Opinion | An abusive creep’s defense 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Pulisic’s finish, from an awkward, wildly obtuse angle to the right of goal, skimmed into the net. With Christian Pulisic Driving, United States Steers Closer to World Cup 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z From my brief look at Tokyo Game Show, it shares the series’ odd sense of humor, somewhat obtuse mission design, and total lack of concern for technical proficiency. Escape the fallout from giant kaiju battles in City Shrouded in Shadow for PS4 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Yet this is not a book for those looking for straightforward answers, and is obtuse as KLF, who have published it under their other moniker, the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu. The return of the KLF: pop's greatest provocateurs take on a post-truth world 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z The subheadline on the Aug. 16 editorial “Mr. Trump gives comfort to racists” said “When its president is so morally obtuse, the nation can only weep.” Opinion | Reacting to the president’s comments on Confederate monuments and Charlottesville 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z When Cameron makes the game of her dreams, no one wants to play it — and the show suggests that it’s fairly obtuse. Halt and Catch Fire is the perfect show about tech innovation 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Could I in theory shackle myself to the exquisite but extreme femininity of Valentino or the brainy and powerful but occasionally obtuse look of Céline? The One Piece of Clothing Every Woman Should Own 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z This is the essence of Trump — exquisitely sensitive to conflicts, real or perceived, when they may work against him; resolutely obtuse to the imperative of independence when unquestioning loyalty better serves his needs. Opinion | No, President Trump, Sessions’s recusal is not ‘very unfair’ to you. This is Ethics 101. 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The militant obtuse are becoming more of a worrying online phenomenon than trolls. Dressmaking next, Daniel – really? Stick to the Day-Lewis job | Peter Bradshaw 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z On the DB11, this obtuse wheel is the first of its kind equipped with electric power-assisted steering. Aston Martin DB11 perfects the imperfect square 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Take Trump’s obtuse reaction to the heinous terrorist attacks on the London Bridge. Trump's Twitter attacks on Sadiq Khan reveal how pitiful the president is | Moustafa Bayoumi 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The idea that Silicon Valley no longer funds big things isn’t just wrong, but also obtuse and fairly dangerous. Google, Not the Government, Is Building the Future 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Often the rules involved are obtuse and escape broad public notice, but the impact of stripping them piles up. Dismantling environmental regulations has been Trump's biggest early success 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z A twisted sense of denial and obtuse optimism. Heart Attack Survivors Often Fail to Take Statins 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z It reflects the smug view that “politics is less a terrain of clashing values and interests than a perpetual pitting of the clever against the ignorant and obtuse.” Right and Left: Partisan Writing You Shouldn’t Miss 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Our work might have been less obtuse had we shared the instincts of a New York University professor named Kim Phillips-Fein. I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Only the NFL is obtuse enough to celebrate putting a franchise in Las Vegas and criticize players for attending an arm-wrestling tournament there. Arm-wrestling hooey shows NFL already stumbling on Vegas 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z “A few days ago, we had an obtuse sign put up,” he began. In Georgia, reaction to KKK banner is a sign of the times 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Murrow understood the soup lines of the Great Depression, saw firsthand war’s atrocities, gazed at America’s occasional banal ignorance and withstood obtuse attacks on the press. Calling Edward R. Murrow 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “This is a guy who cared about the average person and dug through these incredibly obtuse documents, found fraud and exposed it,” Susan Antilla, a fellow financial journalist, said. Christopher Byron, Financial Writer and Author of ‘Martha Inc.,’ Dies at 72 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The Obama administration was laggard in this matter, but the incoming Trump one has been determinedly obtuse. In political Washington, 2017 will be the year of the chicken 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Swift shared news of the single with her 82.2 million Twitter followers, with only the obtuse comment: “Z | T | 50”. Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik release surprise duet for Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Last year, he attacked the call by Pope Francis for action on climate change as “scientifically ill-informed, economically illiterate, intellectually incoherent and morally obtuse.” Trump seems ready to fight the world on climate change, and it could cost the U.S. 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Even in a post-truth world, as some have called the new era of make-believe “information,” only the most obtuse would deny that the long-feared effects of climate change have arrived in our peninsular paradise. Florida editorial roundup 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z He called Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change, issued in mid-2015, “scientifically ill informed, economically illiterate, intellectually incoherent and morally obtuse.” Trump’s Climate Contrarian: Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A. 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z “The Democrats were basically obtuse to this, because it was all about winning and holding power, and it was not about deliverables to the American people.” Democrats face a power outage in Washington — and an identity crisis 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z It’s true that the Maduro government’s cruel and obtuse denial of its people’s suffering is often ascribed to chavista pride, but it’s more than that. Venezuela, A Failing State 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Unfortunately for every well informed statement such as this there are several that are incredibly obtuse. See Obamacare Rates for Every County in the Country 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z But this boiled-down process is intended to address the most important questions you will face as you compare any array of plans with metallic names or obtuse abbreviations. Need to Pick an Insurance Plan? Start Here 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Look, you don’t need to be as annoyingly obtuse as me to find this “real women” versus “non-real women” schtick annoying. In Vogue: what’s the difference between a ‘real woman’ and a ‘non-real woman’? 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z But don’t forget those 4 hours 32 minutes of roars from 43,936 fans, almost all clad in red — staying until 12:41 a.m., spitting in the eye of some obtuse Metro clod. How Nats fans should process three playoff losses in five years 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z American journalism has been willfully obtuse about the grievances on Main Streets for decades – surely a factor in digging the hole of resentment that Trump’s venom now fills. Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Nowadays when player acquisitions or formations strike us as baffling or obtuse, there is likely to be method in the madness. Beautiful and mathematical: Football as a numbers game - BBC News 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z But move outside of that growing community, the impression remains that poetry - in general terms - is difficult, almost deliberately obtuse and obscure, frequently dull, and willfully uses words such as "crepuscular" or "obsidian". 'How I accidentally became a poet through Twitter' - BBC News 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z The shape of the house — more of an obtuse angle than a perpendicular L — creates a traditional flow, allowing the rooms to weave into one another. A D.C. home with an ageless appeal 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z After a knockabout encounter with a particularly obtuse alien race, the ship heads to Yorktown for routine maintenance. 'Star Trek Beyond' boldly goes kind of where you expect it to, but with style 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Five judges handed down an obtuse and unjust ruling that ignored historical facts and international realities. An unjust ruling in the South China Sea 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The organization takes care of training students on Wikipedia's obtuse cultural norms and retro editing interface. Why some college professors are telling students to use Wikipedia for class 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z This is an invitation for bureaucracies to publish obtuse drafts and finalize something else when convenient. The King and His Court 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z To most Americans, corporate tax inversions might make for dry reading, made all the more so by obtuse regulations announced by the Treasury last month to curb the practice. Treasury Makes Up the Rules As It Goes Along 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z He is more undisciplined than ever from his embarrassing tweets to obtuse comments on the stump like “look at my African-American! Look at him!” Flustered, frustrated and frantic: The university debacle has put Donald Trump on the ropes 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The Mi lamp consists of two rods that intersect each other and create an obtuse angle. Why did Xiaomi make this lamp smart? 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z “Not too obtuse, not too abstract. If the lyric is earthly in its imagery, rural, you can even take more sonic liberties with it.” Keith Urban explores rhythmic roots on diverse new record 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z I mean it would be dense and obtuse to not recognize this. A conversation with Martha Plimpton: 'Trump, president? Not a chance in hell' 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Equally as obtuse, lawmakers, school and community officials repeatedly defended their right to continue using it. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Public health policy is the latest victim of his obtuse reasoning. Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Get Policy, Part MCMXLIII 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z And yet, interestingly, the show is not at all astute about the actual political practices and exigencies of this moment; in fact, at moments it is horribly obtuse about them. The Stories We Tell About Politics 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Anyone who claims there’s no difference between Paul Ryan and Tom DeLay, or for that matter President Obama, is obtuse or dishonest. The Cruz Conundrum 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Unlike the crooked geographies of San Francisco or Paris, where Flatirons abound, New York is perhaps a little too frenetic for obtuse living. Flatiron Building, Admired but Rarely Copied, Inspires Developers 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Like me, he obeys no mortal physics, changing shape and angle, acute one moment and obtuse the next. I, Cthulhu, endorse Donald Trump 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z So, it seems a bit obtuse to try and turn them into a giant display board. Seven outstanding Micro Bit projects - BBC News 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Part police procedural and part dystopian thesis about thought crime versus actual crime, the play isn’t entirely successful—often genuinely disturbing yet also sometimes self-satisfied and obtuse. Designing Stages for Shakespeare and Kanye 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The consensus is misplaced, dangerous – and ethically obtuse. The Moral Case for Globalization 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z But, he added, “If you believe he is part of the GOP establishment, then you are either sorely mistaken, intentionally naïve or stubbornly obtuse.” Remaining GOP hopefuls are not ready to let Cruz be the ‘Stop-Trump’ candidate 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z The moral and logical terms of this argument are brutally obtuse. Vote for Hillary, be a sucker: It’s OK to reject the choice of a tyrannical liberal or a right-wing tyrant 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z So obtuse are they that it is no wonder that “The Rise of Trump”™ blindsided them. How Donald Trump blindsided the GOP: Inside the uprising the establishment never imagined — and didn’t see coming 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z But Eddie is indefatigable if slightly obtuse and, once his leg braces are removed — in a joyously rendered scene — he zeros in on downhill skiing. An unlikely run at the Olympics takes flight in 'Eddie the Eagle' 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Armed with a tape recorder, García tries to get the men, by turns obtuse and arrogant, to face up to their crimes. 'The Club' is an offbeat look at the lives of disgraced priests 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Facebook has modified its standards several times in response to pressure from advocacy groups — although the site has deliberately obscured those edits, and the process by which Facebook determines its guidelines remains stubbornly obtuse. The big myth Facebook needs everyone to believe 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z To say the least, it would have been obtuse to respond in Waldman-Walt fashion by enumerating other risks that claim more black lives than racist gunmen do. In Defense of Freaking Out 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Marc Cooper, a former professor of justice and journalism at the University of Southern California, thought the media was obtuse even to pose the question. San Bernardino shooting: US divided over whether attack was terrorism 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z This type of obtuse thinking typifies the deal-making going on today. Telltale Signs That Deal Makers Swallowed the Silly Pills 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The project, which would connect Canadian tar sands to Gulf Coast refineries, is laden with symbolism, yet it is also obtuse. Democrats cheer Keystone pipeline setback, but it could hurt them in presidential race 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Their casual commentary was painfully soporific and politically obtuse, undoubtedly helping the TV audience gain new appreciation for the deep insights of Don Lemon and Gretchen Carlson. Jeb Bush’s stunning, televised implosion: How the former GOP frontrunner became a sad, pathetic joke 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The truth is that without “Wreden’s” interference, much of Coda’s work would appear obtuse and unplayable. ‘The Beginners Guide’ to blurring the lines between video games and interactive art 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Others imagined the future would bring forth a metallic, obtuse world made up of robots with human minds and space stations that resembled ferris wheels. Watch How the Past Imagined the Future 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z His displeasure had not prevented him bantering and laughing with Sarah on the journey back from Vicarage Road, though, and Tom, whom Robin found boring and obtuse, had chortled away, oblivious to any undercurrents. Exclusive Excerpt: Detective Cormoran Strike Returns 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z These little bubbles of text often express confusion or anger at the game's obtuse nature, but some are more cries for help along the lines of "I would like very much to be desired." Can a video game make you a better friend? 'The Beginner's Guide' tries 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z But it’s unsettling to encounter a prospective leader whose persona is so conspicuous and well defined and yet whose core is so obtuse. Donald Trump Is Not Going Anywhere 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Relying over-much on nostalgia for its roots, "Heroes Reborn" seems astonishingly obtuse about the new world of television. 'Heroes Reborn' spins complex web; it's game on with Wesley Snipes in 'The Player' 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s the most obtuse, dense, incomprehensible pricing structure ever created by humanity.” A defining moment in modern health care 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z He could be as obtuse about the people who worked for him as he was insightful about the people his work was for. PBS' 'Walt Disney' is an entertaining, enlightening look at the visionary 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Apparently she was being coy, because "Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz" certainly doesn't sound tossed off, even if it's playfully obtuse and filled with experimental flair. Miley Cyrus drops surprise new album, 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z However, in doing so, I’m being willfully obtuse. I'm a black gentrifier in Harlem – and it's not a good feeling 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Hurricane Katrina took around 1,800 lives and wrecked many thousands more, suffering that still wells up in stories of hardship and miraculous survival, and in barely sublimated ire towards obtuse bureaucrats and unfeeling politicians. Some people got away alright 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z “I was regularly appalled by how obtuse and headstrong and inconsiderate I was, with girlfriends in particular.” William Finnegan: 'I was reluctant to come out of the closet as a surfer' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The policies that did not rank highly contained 100-word-long sentences, obtuse explanations and little sense of design. These Companies Have the Best (And Worst) Privacy Policies 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Situations start obvious, and gradually become more obtuse. Gaming against sexual assault, with 'Decisions That Matter' and other video games 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z “Recalcitrant, myopic, reactionary, obtuse, blustering, pompous”—were just some of the adjectives that, according to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, senior White House officials attached to Netanyahu. “I already saw fire in Netanyahu’s eyes”: Behind the scenes with Bibi and Obama 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z There is some of this in Catastrophe — Rob's ribald friend Dave, Sharon's tragically obtuse friend Fran — but it's a small group without real storylines of their own, who seem to exist mainly for laughs. You should be watching Catastrophe 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z So either they were wilfully obtuse, or they believe the debt relief issue can be tackled. Greek crisis: Deputy finance minister resigns before bailout vote - live 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z As sensitive as presidential candidates are to the tiniest shifts in public opinion, they can be shockingly obtuse about problems in their own organizations. Building a Winning Political Team 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z He certainly isn’t obtuse, and he wasn’t being patronizing or condescending. Budgeting Guide for the Rich 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z And that’s probably me being obtuse to leave it open at the end. Phil Jackson Talks About N.B.A. Draft, Carmelo Anthony and More 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z With Washington’s anointed seers strikingly obtuse on the subject of geopolitical power, perhaps it’s time to get back to basics. American imperialists are deluding themselves: Henry Kissinger, George W. Bush and the end of U.S. hegemony 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z So either they were wilfully obtuse, or they believe the debt relief issue can be tackled. Greek crisis: Deputy finance minister resigns before bailout vote - live 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Google’s announcement brought the promise of scale and software know-how to an obtuse industry then dominated by companies better suited to drawing up wiring and plumbing schematics than user interfaces. Don't confuse smart devices with a smart home 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z At times, one almost feels sorry for the father who is receiving spectacularly obtuse requests from his thirty-two-year-old son. Daddy Issues: Corruption in New York and Shanghai 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The ensuing November beat down of the GOP — despite the shambles Mr. Obama and Democrats were making of the place — was so stinging that even the famously obtuse party bosses got the message. CHARLES HURT: Marco Rubio habla Americano better than other Republicans 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z No matter whether these are favors-for-favors, or crimes, Mr. Menendez looks ethically obtuse in the indictment: a kept man, and not a kept promise. In Bygone Days, Menendez Fought Graft, With Courage 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Somehow both an obtuse, artsy experiment and a very straightforward, rewarding casual game. What Were The Best Video Games Of 2014? 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z “These are rather obtuse questions for a Friday night in New Hampshire,” he said as he gamely fielded inquiries about his positions on health care, education, the renewable fuel standard and other issues. Bush, Walker circle each other in New Hampshire 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Sure, tax law is complex, and U.S. tax law is the most comprehensive, exception ridden, obtuse, and convoluted tax system in the world. Americans Get 'F' For Tax Knowledge. Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card For Tax Evasion? 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z “If the private sector is interested in funding obscure or obtuse social science question, then let them,” he adds. The money chase, 2016: New head of key House science spending panel likes limited government, unlimited exploration 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z This is something that we saw in a really big way with "net neutrality", which is a really obtuse issue, that frankly most of the people that it really affects didn't really understand. Tumblr CEO: Focusing on storytelling and self-expression 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Doc doesn’t so much go from point A to point B as he becomes buried under ever-deepening snowdrifts of unreliable personae, shady and long-tentacled organizations, and obtuse conversations overladen with Age of Aquarius philosophizing. Our Favorite Films of 2014: Newsweek Staff Picks Levinson doesn’t seem that obtuse to us, but he knows how to sidestep the occasional question. Watchdog’s View: HHS inspector general talks Healthcare.gov, Ebola, Obamacare The contracts are huge, obtuse, confusing and hence rarely read. Ken Fisher: Why I Hate Annuities 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z "Over the years, Obama administration officials have described Netanyahu to me as recalcitrant, myopic, reactionary, obtuse, blustering, pompous, and 'Aspergery,'" Goldberg wrote. In Interview, White House Official Calls Israeli Prime Minister 'Chickenshit' 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z The same thought recurs during one of the obtuse encounters that are a wearying part of daily life. A Frightening Diagnosis Is Only Start of the Story in ‘Not Fade Away’ and ‘Now I See You’ 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z The wall, which rises as high as 24 feet, has acute edges and obtuse angles. The Wind, a Wall and a Wide Throw Foil the Cardinals 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z I do feel the loss of something here, but bemoaning the general immaturity of contemporary culture would be as obtuse as declaring it the coolest thing ever. The Death of Adulthood in American Culture 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, to argue that the economy is doing better under Obama than it did under Reagan is at best obtuse and at worst partisan hackery. Sorry, Obama Fans: Reagan Did Better on Jobs and Growth 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z There was a bit of rough news this morning for people who enjoy denying people access to health insurance based on garbage legal reasoning and wilfully obtuse readings of statutes. Bad news for Obamacare haters: Long-shot legal challenge suffers setback 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z He said that he is expecting Draghi to speak about extra central bank measures in broad “obtuse” terms. Expect Short-Term Bounce In Gold, Euro Thursday As ECB Delays QE - Analysts 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The result of this interplay was an innovative and novel set of tactics applied to a conflict situation that was mind-numbingly obtuse and difficult. Innovation, Leadership, And T. E. Lawrence 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z “Companies are relying on exceedingly brief, vague, or obtuse descriptions of their data collection practices, even though Safe Harbor requires meaningful transparency and candor,”says Jeff Chester, CDD’s executive director. FTC Urged To Crack Down On Tech Firms' Privacy Violations 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Removing the portrait of the ‘eternal president’ at this time seems particularly obtuse. North Korea erases 'eternal president' from banknotes 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Is Conn’s, and everyone around it, obtuse or just really, really shy? Many Are Knocking, but the Door Stays Closed 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z Charles Barsotti, a cartoonist for The New Yorker whose jaded canines, outlaw snails and obtuse monarchs made readers laugh for more than 40 years, died Monday at home in Kansas City, Mo. He was 80. Obituary: Charles Barsotti, longtime New Yorker cartoonist 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z But it is economically obtuse for Benen to argue that studying the underlying cost of health insurance is “deceptive.” Note To Progressives: Obamacare's Subsidies Aren't Free -- They're Financed By Taxpayers 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Its structure is rigid and its puzzles are obtuse, but there's still something about that beautiful, mysterious island that's just aching to be explored. 'The Witness' is the modern day 'Myst' you've been waiting for 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The United States has an incredibly difficult draw, to be sure, but the notion that Klinsmann is conceding games against Ghana, Portugal and Germany is obtuse; Klinsmann is not “rebuilding” at the World Cup. In Klinsmann’s Decision on Donovan, an Eye on Now and Later 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z As obtuse as it sounds, this is a fierce and raging debate across the internet. New York court upholds the right to be annoying 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Definitions 11 and 12 are for obtuse and acute angles, which are defined as being greater than or less than a right angle, respectively. What’s the Deal with Euclid’s Fourth Postulate? 2014-04-21T12:30:26Z The endless, blindingly obtuse debate about the Affordable Care Act–also known as Obamacare–has been almost entirely about politics, not substance. Obamacare: Mend it, Don’t End it 2014-04-03T10:08:56Z Those that continue to spread that fallacy as fact are being willfully obtuse just for the sake of hating on Windows 8. I'm Sorry, The Windows 8 Hate Just Doesn't Make Sense 2014-03-19T17:25:00Z Testifying at the preliminary hearing, Southern continued in the obtuse vein of his prior appearance. Who Runs Freedom Industries? West Virginia's Chemical Spill Mystery 2014-01-30T11:00:10Z In a somewhat obtuse reply, an IBM spokesperson told me that: Boom! IBM Follows Amazon To A Mainland Chinese Offering 2013-12-18T19:57:00Z Fischer is difficult to characterize "with a term as obtuse as 'hawk' or 'dove' because he takes a balanced, academic approach to various topics of debate," said Thomas Simons, an economist at brokerage Jefferies. Israel's Fischer picked to be next Fed vice chair: source 2013-12-11T19:51:20Z Sometimes in explaining what is happening in a way that will not cause further lawyerly hyperventilation she may be obtuse or even in error. On this Blogging Business, and Regarding Scolding 2013-10-14T22:15:00.360Z The pause map, which shows broad chunks of the city or countryside, seems almost purposefully obtuse. 10 Random Thoughts About 'Grand Theft Auto V' 2013-09-26T20:06:00Z These older branches are frequently still alive and well but now emerge at a more obtuse angle. City Room: A Gumdrop Shape, Good and Plenty 2013-08-16T18:16:34Z When we tolerate a culture of disrespect, we aren’t just being insensitive, or obtuse, or lazy, or enabling. Well: In a Culture of Disrespect, Patients Lose Out 2013-07-18T15:15:59Z Inaccuracy mainly caused through its purposely obtuse controls. Surgeon Simulator 2013 - review 2013-04-29T14:26:22Z Can the FA really still be so surpassingly obtuse that it fails to realise that silence in its own backyard renders all of its other sermons completely meaningless? The Football Association has a dream – that it has stopped racism in football 2013-03-29T17:25:00Z Rule #10: Make it Beautiful, Take it To Go A medical Explanation of Benefit is possibly the only statement uglier and more obtuse than a typical financial statement. 10 Rules For Disruptors In The Financial Services Industry 2013-03-20T15:37:33Z But why explain this in such an obtuse and saccharine way? Wonders of Life: confusing and overrated? 2013-01-29T07:30:00Z To test the most obtuse “multiple universe” theories, for example, we might be able to look for boundaries where universes affect each other, but never the universes themselves. The Last Thing the Squirrel Saw 2013-01-28T14:15:00.213Z Yet she remains maddeningly obtuse, refusing to either embrace praise or respond to the mildest of interrogation. Australian Open 2013: Serena Williams refuses to accept favourite tag 2013-01-12T22:00:07Z Maybe instead of decrying the stupidity of "financial illiterates" we could require plain English documents,that do not require attorneys to explain the thereto's, herein's, and other inexplicably obtuse language,. New Mortgage Rules: Protection From Banks, or Ourselves? 2013-01-10T20:50:35Z Most of the time the deal is disguised in a legally obtuse user agreement that no one ever reads. Mickey Mouse’s magic handcuffs 2013-01-07T16:30:00Z Like a bent arm, the Hoyle state takes the shape of an obtuse triangle with an alpha particle at each vertex. The Hoyle State: A Primordial Nucleus Behind the Elements of Life 2012-12-06T15:15:00.267Z According to this obtuse literary outlook, it is the educated, affluent, fashionable and gorgeous outsiders who are the cosmopolitans. Letter from India: The Grouse in the Heart of Mumbai 2012-11-21T14:00:31Z Deals made to pass budgets have created tortuous funding mechanisms and a welter of obtuse regulations, Democrats say. Insight: California Democrats amass control over unruly state 2012-11-08T08:01:50Z People don’t interrupt him, tell him he is being obtuse and that he is dead wrong. What Obama’s debate performance says about his education policy 2012-10-04T17:57:00Z Prior to leaking the record, Death Grips explained themselves, more or less, in an obtuse string of tweets. Death Grips' website closed down after band leak new album 2012-10-02T10:37:49Z "It might, in a slightly obtuse way, bring some order," he told reporters this week. Germany to make proposals to France on EADS-BAE merger 2012-09-28T13:02:54Z Yet again Clegg claimed social mobility is his mission, but when he ignores every projection that his government's policies will drive the social divide far wider, is he obtuse or dishonest? Nick Clegg reprises scare-mongering Greek comparisons 2012-09-26T17:58:05Z She advises students to remember that acute angles are smaller than 90 degrees because they are so little and cute, and obtuse angles are bigger than 90 degrees because they’re obese. Actress Danica McKellar: Math isn’t just for nerds 2012-09-10T22:20:20Z In an election season, however, only a very naïve or obtuse viewer would miss the point of the organization’s prolific ads. Karl Rove: He's Back, Big Time 2012-07-26T10:00:12Z "And the response from the authorities across India has been strikingly obtuse." India Ink: Using Sex Crimes to Rein in Women 2012-07-18T04:43:26Z And the response from the authorities across India has been strikingly obtuse. The Female Factor: In India, Using Sex Crimes to Rein in Women 2012-07-17T12:50:05Z It was a mistake that, in an obtuse way, cost the Thunder the chance to win the game. Off the Dribble: Putting Westbrook's Mistake in Context 2012-06-20T19:52:43Z The tactic was convoluted even by the standards of ’s obtuse political world. Japan Leader Changes Cabinet in Push for Tax Bill 2012-06-05T17:58:25Z Though hasty in temper in his early days, he had always been somewhat obtuse in intellect; but this was a case of emergency; and there is no greater sharpener of the wits than necessity. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z The foolish and obtuse are often deceived by others; the shrewd and quick are often deceived by themselves. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z In the sphere of material power the repulse of Xerxes and the extension of Athenian or Spartan supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean were large facts patent to the most obtuse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z It is a male, having the anal valves rather lengthened and obtuse, with a small hook between them, which projects from the last segment of the abdomen. Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-20T02:00:06.887Z Antenn� slender, the club elongated, obtuse, slightly arched, and rarely compressed. Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:34.283Z Why is love obtuse, ruthless, rain-buried, eerie and demanding, slinking one to the other? Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Palpi short, much compressed, obtuse, remote, not touching the tongue, covered equally on both sides with thickset hairs concealing the joints. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z Well, granted that an obtuse policeman or a perplexed doctor refused to admit that Stephen Garth was dead, the letter would clinch the matter. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z Shell globose, smooth, beneath the epidermis white with brown bands; spire elevated, tip obtuse; margin of the aperture thick, white; umbilicus none. Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-20T02:00:06.887Z Wings black; two bands on the anterior wings, and marginal lunules on the posterior, yellow; lower wings with obtuse tails, and a row of red dots between the nerves. Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:34.283Z Leaves channelled, linear; spikes 3–5, on unequal often recurved peduncles, ovoid, chestnut-brown; bracts ciliate-fringed; sepals taper-pointed, longer than the obtuse capsule; seeds not appendaged.—Alpine summits of the White Mts. and far northward. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Palpi thick, scaly; frontal side obtuse; lateral sides compressed; the margins externally fringed with hair; the last joint naked, lengthened, nearly horizontal, linear, compressed. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z There has come into vogue in this country a kind of intercession which is the exact reverse of this of Abraham—an obtuse, mechanical intercession about whose efficacy one may cherish a reasonable suspicion. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z Shell oblong, smooth, thin, brown; spire elevated, thick, obtuse; aperture lengthened, base contracted; umbilicus nearly obsolete. Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-20T02:00:06.887Z Shell small, olive; spire longer than the aperture; the tip obtuse, rufous; basal whorl slightly carinated in the middle; umbilicus obsolete. Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:34.283Z Leaves all submersed and similar, mostly sessile, membranaceous and dilated, lanceolate, oblong, or oval; stipules obtuse, becoming loose. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Bill moderate, depressed, broader than high, tip obtuse, back broad. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; Ð opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Unio fragilis is principally distinguished by the cardinal teeth: those in the right valves are 2; short, obtuse, and nearly obsolete, more resembling tubercles, than the crenated or striated teeth of this genus. Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-20T02:00:06.887Z I once saw near 100, which had been picked up on the banks of the Ganges; the spire is rather lengthened, always obtuse, and the umbilicus even less than the last. Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:34.283Z Glumes very dissimilar, usually obtuse, the upper empty one enclosing the flowers. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Shell with elevated, longitudinal, obtuse, entire ribs, the interstices smooth, the base granulated; spire lengthened; pillar four-plaited; aperture short. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z The obtuse angle of this file is five-canted, while the regular cant is hexagon or six-canted, and it is found to be too obtuse for the purposes required of the saw file. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Shell ovate-globose, smooth; spire ventricose, obtuse; beneath the epidermis, purple; aperture blackish purple; outer lip thin, the margin reflected. Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-20T02:00:06.887Z Bill strong, compressed, nearly straight; the tip of the upper mandible curved, notched, and obtuse; the margin folding on that of the lower mandible. Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:34.283Z Leaves equidistant, imbricate, cleft nearly to the middle, the roundish obtuse lobes denticulate on the outer margin; perianth much exceeding the involucral leaves, obovate from a narrow base, denticulate.—Mountains of N. Eng. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Shell ovate-oblong, with irregular ferrugineous stripes; spire obtuse at the top, of five volutions; the suture depressed, with a marginal indented line. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z If the axis of the crank axle formed an obtuse angle to the engine centre line a a in Fig. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Shell ovate-obtuse, yellowish, with pale bands and fulvous spots; body whorl crowned by compressed obtuse nodules; spire very short, acute; pillar thickened with many plaits. Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-20T02:00:06.887Z Anterior wings trigonal, the hinder dentated, generally tailed, with an obtuse concave lobe at their anal angle, which is generally in motion when the insect is at rest. Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:34.283Z Creeping, without ventral runners; leaves pale green, imbricate, spreading, roundish-ovate, obtuse. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Palpi compressed convexly on the front of the head, meeting above the tongue; the last joint very minute, thick, obtuse, approximating and bent forward. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z It may form an obtuse angle with the cross-head journal when so viewed. 3rd. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z He was nervous on his own account, wrapped in his own piece of scheming, and obtuse. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z Cylindric elongated; whitish, with two yellowish bands, and transverse elevated stri�; spire thick, obtuse. Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:34.283Z Often confounded with n. 34, but easily distinguished by the non-cespitose habit, sheaths not fibrillose, and the short scales very obtuse. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The club of their antenn� is very thick, obtuse, and without any terminal hook. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z In cutting down a radial face the acute corner of the tool leads the cut, whereas in in plain cylindrical work the obtuse is better to lead. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z In a statement issued Monday, the industry group criticized the Harvard study for "relying on notoriously unreliable self-reporting about what was eaten and obtuse methods to apply statistical analysis to the data." Red meat mortality study leaves many carnivores unfazed 2012-03-19T15:01:05Z Feelers very short, reflected, remote, hardly covering the base of the tongue, the last joint obtuse and minute; anterior feet long, with a gibbous appendage on the under part of the second joint. Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:34.283Z Glumes 4, obtuse, the outer hard and cartilaginous, with a transverse depression next the base, the inner one boat-shaped and membranaceous, the 2 upper thin and delicate. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Bill longer than the head, thick, light, curved, thickened at the basal margin, the frontal angle obtuse, the margins serrated. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z Its end face c is at an obtuse angle to the length of the tool, so that on passing up a bore and meeting a radial face the point only will meet that face. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z When he spoke his lips assumed the form of two obtuse angles, exposing to view a glistening lozenge of white teeth. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Shell obtuse, gibbous, orange, the sides with alternate tessellated spots of white and brown. Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:34.283Z Primary portion and branches thick, the branches interruptedly pinnate with short obtuse divisions.—On decayed wood and moss in swamps, N. J. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Antenn� linear, thickened in the middle, externally ciliated in the male, simple and filiform in the female, gradually ending in an arcuated, obtuse hook. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z As cases become more decided in diagnosis, and consequently represent higher degrees of departure from the intermittent type, the angles of temperature curves become more obtuse and exhibit a more or less high average range. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z He was even more powerfully built than he, but he lacked his grace and the light of his intelligent eyes—a physical giant with a look of obtuse honesty on a fair, bearded round face. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z It is said that she was obtuse in intellect when awake. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Petals 4–6, separate, or united only at the base, oval or obovate, obtuse, spreading. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Bill short, thick, very strong, covered at the base by a cere; upper mandible sharply hooked; under mandible obtuse, curving upwards, and much shorter. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z There was no path; he could but plunge on where the undergrowth seemed thinnest, his general direction being as nearly as he could judge at an obtuse angle with the stream. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z His heart never becomes callous, nor his moral and intellectual perceptions obtuse. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Were it not so, would the senses of different animals, rendered more or less acute or obtuse according to their natural pursuits and protective habits, be so materially unequal? Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Leaves linear to oblong-lanceolate; heads many, crowded; scales close, obtuse or the uppermost mucronate; achene smooth.—Low grounds, Ohio and Ky. to Dak., and southward. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Articulations three; the first very long, curved at the base, erect beyond; the second erect, short; the third minute, inclining forward; the tip naked, obtuse. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z He was too obtuse to see at once that my lady was playing with him. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z The other is of a more globose form than the bitter sort, and has a very obtuse hinge and margin. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z My legs," he says, "first made an obtuse angle with my thighs, then a right and at last an acute angle; my thighs made another with my body. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z G. muràlis, L. Annual, much branched; leaves very narrowly linear; flowers on slender pedicels, solitary in the forks; calyx turbinate, the teeth short, obtuse; petals purplish, crenate or emarginate.—Sparingly naturalized. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Then we turned at an obtuse angle to the right and found ourselves in what has been called the wild garden of Suffolk, not in any classical work perhaps, but by word of mouth. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Petals.—Six or seven lines long; spreading; mostly obtuse; rather densely covered with yellow hairs. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The concept of financial engineering - which was what the man claimed to have done to justify him being paid such monies - is too obtuse for many to understand. African viewpoint: Ghana's bellyful of scandal 2012-02-14T20:55:45Z And yet somehow or other it had become plain to their obtuse intelligence that the siren was at the bottom of the trouble. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Corolla mostly withering or persistent; the claws of all the petals, or of all except the oblong or ovate standard, more or less united below with the stamen-tube; keel short and obtuse. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z |
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