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Updated: June 20, 2025
She did not weep, nor did she moan. She sat thinking. She dwelt on the remembrance of the hills and the tramp with strange persistency, and yet no more now than before did she attempt to come to conclusions with her thought; it was vague, she would not define it; she brooded over it sullenly and obtusely.
We are, therefore, extremely careful to be always appropriately clothed. That is a physical impression. It is possessed by you also, but more obtusely. "Our sensitiveness to mental pleasure and pain you would pronounce morbid on account of its intensity. The happiness we enjoy in the society of those who are congenial, or near and dear to us through family ties, is inconceivable to you.
There is perhaps always a mixture of the tragi-comic in every such scene, and this humiliating comparison, obtusely intended as a sort of blundering apology, but which brought the Queen's exasperation and mortification to a climax, and Knox's bitter assault upon the ladies in their fine dresses outside, give a humiliating poignancy to the exasperated feeling on both sides such as delights a cynic.
Rumbold was still unpacking.... Mr. Polly had no human intercourse thereafter with Rumbold for fifteen years. He kept up a Hate. There was a time when it seemed as if Rumbold might go, but he had a meeting of his creditors and then went on unpacking as obtusely as ever. Hinks, the saddler, two shops further down the street, was a different case. Hinks was the aggressor practically.
The more you endeavour to indicate where Brighton is when you have with the greatest difficulty remembered the less the devoted father can be made to comprehend, and the more obtusely he stares at the prospect; whereby, being reduced to extremity, you recommend the faithful parent to begin by going to St. Albans, and present him with half- a-crown.
She glanced a mute farewell from her large perturbed eyes, turned, and ran up the garden without looking back. All was over between them. The river flowed on as quietly and obtusely as ever, and the minnows gathered again in their favourite spot as if they had never been disturbed.
There you have that "thief of energies," as he so obtusely called Christ who sought to wed nihilism with the struggle for existence, and he talks to you about courage. His heart craved the eternal all while his head convinced him of nothingness, and, desperate and mad to defend himself from himself, he cursed that which he most loved. Because he could not be Christ, he blasphemed against Christ.
"How does Marietta get into the game?" asked her father obtusely. Mrs. Emery hesitated a scarcely perceptible instant, a hesitation apparently illuminating to her husband. He laughed again, the tolerant, indifferent laugh he had for his women-folks' goings-on. "She thinks she can go up as the tail to Lydia's kite, does she? She'd better not be too sure.
Have you not heard that he himself is a kind of 'Jacques bonhomme'?" "That means just a peasant, doesn't it?" I asked obtusely. "No, I hadn't heard that." He laughed again. "Did the good Mishka tell you nothing?" "Why, no; he's the surliest and most silent fellow I've ever travelled with."
Two years ago we deliberately smashed her spectacles, which she had adopted at five-and-twenty. "But they are more convenient than eye-glasses," she urged obtusely. "That argument is beneath you, dear," we replied.
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