Lexicographical Neighbors of Obtusities
Literary usage of Obtusities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Southern Literature by John Calvin Metcalf (1909)
"Again we read of "A sympathy which almost amounted to divination jostling obtusities
that just escaped brutish- ness." Such crudities of style, however, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1884)
"Here we have the natural comment of a mind of exceptional delicacy and sensitiveness
upon those obtusities' of feeling and taste which appear more or less ..."
3. Preadamites, Or, A Demonstration of the Existence of Men Before Adam by Alexander Winchell (1880)
"These mental obtusities react upon the white populations who wait for the service
of the Negro. They learn to be contented with loose and shambling results, ..."
4. Preadamites: Or, A Demonstraiton of the Existence of Men Before Adam by Alexander Winchell (1890)
"These mental obtusities react upon the white populations who wait for the service
of the Negro. They learn to be contented with loose and shambling results, ..."
5. The Collected Works of George Moore by George Moore (1917)
"... and a sort of leaden despair in her heart that she felt would never pass away.
As the days went by her mind became denser, she fell into obtusities ..."
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