Sentences with word «obtuseness»

In conversations with their colleagues, clergy often point to the faithlessness and moral obtuseness of the laity.

I am disappointed and surprised that some readers chose to avoid the issues I raised, and thereby gave testimony to my argument about a growing moral obtuseness in our midst.

That the New York Times should characterize Climategate correspondents as «private individuals» rather than senior IPCC authors is the type of wilful obtuseness that has characterized far too much disinformation on Climategate, not just by the New York Times, but by Nature, Science and institutions that far too often seem to confuse the narrowest interest of climate scientists with the interest of the public.

Steve Hayward's cookin» with gas over at Powerline: «But the prize for this week's liberal obtuseness about the Constitution goes to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who told an Egyptian television audience that «I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I....

«But the prize for this week's liberal obtuseness about the Constitution goes to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who told an Egyptian television audience that «I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.»

This series is quite famous for a level of deliberate obtuseness that is beloved by some and off - putting to others — how do you balance the needs of a wider audience versus the classic series formula?

No question in my mind that something's lurking in the Quays» underneath, but it's important to mark that fine line distinguishing fascination from obtuseness for the sake of itself.

«This is where the philistine concept of art turns up with all its deadly obtuseness — an idea to which all technical considerations are foreign and which feels that with the provocative appearance of the new technology its end has come» (Walter Benjamin: Kleine Geschichte der Photographie in Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit Frankfurt 1963 p. 69).

Their power renders them morally pretentious and blind to their own ethical obtuseness.

There does seem to be hypocrisy there, but equivocating the political brinksmanship of a few with the real needs, beliefs and philosophies of a huge swash of America is just intentional obtuseness.

Though suggesting that Skinner's obtuseness helped to sink Bush, the kindly Bromley credits Skinner «with a well - earned reputation as perhaps the most effective Secretary of Transportation ever».

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — And the number one prize for Stupid Governor Tricks can go to none other than that champion of educational obtuseness, Andrew Cuomo.

There have been a number of criticism of the Armored Core series over the years, with the perhaps the two most notable, recurring gripes being the lack of evolution between games, and the series» staple obtuseness.

Where once the likes ofPicasso and Andy Warhol simply refused to explain their art or retreated intocalculated obtuseness - Warhol claiming he painted soup cans simply because hedrank a lot of soup - the four artists nominated for this year's Turner Prizeare all almost painfully eager to hold forth about their work.

Upon this amorphous foundation, he accordingly layers lazy geometric forms and monochromatic figures with a measured obtuseness.

I have to say that it takes a special sort of studied obtuseness to look at all the events we are hearing about — unprecedented heat waves in Russia, flooding in Oz, S. America, etc. and say «Meh!»

This may be off - topic, but it is most relevant: I second the identification of «willful obtuseness» on the part of climate consensus defenders.

Allow me to suggest this for an opening sentence: «Despite a life spent on profligate behavior, callous indifference, and inveterate obtuseness...»

The organizing principle that drives David's selective obtuseness is easy to see: selfishness.

This sort of wilful obtuseness and / or incompetence was one of a number of factors that resulted in the Muir Russell «inquiry» exacerbating, rather than diminishing, the polarized attitudes in this field.

It is an almost impossible feat of willful ignorance — a denial of direct experience verging on sheer emotional and moral obtuseness.

Budget 2012 has taken Budget Omnibus Bills to new levels of obtuseness.

If Mark has overstressed the obtuseness of the disciples, one gets the impression that Matthew exaggerates their piety and orthodoxy.

It takes a special sort of obtuseness to look at a natural phenomenon and think that it's the work of an angry god.

The problem is the obtuseness of the Republican Washington political operative and lobbyist classes (to the extent those are even distinct entities).

That explains only a minor part of our obtuseness.

This in fact seems to be the case; several scholars have suggested that the theme of the obtuseness and failures of the disciples pervades the Gospel of Mark.

A local clergyman (Jeremy Northam) comes around to serve as a foil for his neighbor and to incarnate both the benevolence and the obtuseness of religious custom.

Congratulations, you've reached a new level of obtuseness.

On a scale of crypticness, Lost River sits right in between the obtuseness of garden variety Terrence Malick and Ryan Gosling's second collaboration with Nicolas Winding Refn, though the distances are pretty great on either side.

What's shocking to Schrader is not Crane's promiscuity, but his obtuseness.

While the commission's obtuseness or naiveté are open to debate, it is true that the commission did not view the political structures of American education as the most blatant problem.

The modesty or inaction of state leaders shouldn't be read as obtuseness or lassitude but as the evidence of these complications.

«Finally I'd like to say that your dismissal of the value of self - expression through gameplay style is, to me, breathtaking in its audacity and obtuseness.»

The biggest issue raised is the obtuseness of the game, it doesn't do a very good job of explaining itself so we have done a few things to remedy it.