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"obtuse" Definitions
  1. (formal, disapproving) slow or unwilling to understand something
  2. [usually before noun] (geometry) (of an angle) between 90° and 180° compare acute (6)

340 Sentences With "obtuse"

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KING: -- and you&aposre trying to give obscure, obtuse answers.
"Of all years to be willfully obtuse," one person tweeted.
One commenter decried the obtuse communication channels available to him.
The hieroglyphically obtuse wayfinding signage only adds to the effect.
But he's being obtuse about what that study was saying.
The answer, I think, is that dictatorships are inherently obtuse.
Writing in Commentary, Eva Hoffman found Mr. Pirsig's ruminations obtuse.
Kate is just a tactless, obtuse woman who feels a little bit trapped, and Pyotr's a tactless, obtuse man who needs a green card, and in classic rom-com fashion they save each other.
Obtuse or callous views of ethnicity are dismayingly common in China.
As a political response to Mr Trump, it is frighteningly obtuse.
"This is outrageous, outlandish and obtuse," Congress spokesman Sanjay Jha said.
How could he be so obtuse as to not foresee it?
" Around Mainland China • He writes of observing "industrious, filthy, obtuse people.
Which is to say: anarchic, obtuse, wildly creative, and just plain weird.
He's obtuse, he doesn't want to talk about what he does. Right.
ObamaCare was created by Democrats as an intentionally obtuse and complicated law.
I don't understand how The New York Times can be so obtuse.
Back at it again with the nice chords and obtuse navel-gazing.
Stringing together obtuse veins of thought, he fabricates alternate realities and histories.
An obtuse Lear orders his loyal daughter, Cordelia, out of his sight.
This gives extra gravitas to even their most obtuse assertions about Trump.
That doesn't make their struggles any less real—just somewhat more obtuse.
It was a conversation that was, by turns, interesting, public-spirited, and obtuse.
I was groggy and feeling OBTUSE with an ACUTE pain in my head.
Come on now, don't be obtuse, Let's all give thanks to Dr. Seuss.
To write something this obtuse, something that absolutely no one wants or asked for?
We wanted to make music that would make people feel uncomfortable; that was obtuse.
It's not a game for players who find collecting items and obtuse challenges tedious.
The interface here is a bit obtuse, though it gets more intuitive with time.
Obtuse bureaucracy can definitely slow down and increase the cost of building internet infrastructure.
To make an obtuse triangle look sharper, you've got to — yes — elongate the eyes.
It can seem willfully obtuse or pointlessly obscure, and often it's just plain boring.
Where is the spirit of those innovations in the sluggish and obtuse processes today?
As obtuse as his guitar playing can be, Macgregor's desperate vocals are frighteningly direct.
Watson shouldn't let the obtuse ramblings of a tabloid writer ruffle her feathers, anyhow.
Beijing's pre-occupation with diplomatic protocol and linguistic precision often appears obtuse to outsiders.
Stringing together obtuse veins of thought, he creates new meanings from familiar cultural narratives.
Gambino's music typically unzips as a series of questions, obtuse shapes without concentrated form.
Gambino's music typically unzips as a series of questions, obtuse shapes without concentrated form.
Still, the reaction of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's administration has been astonishingly obtuse.
"Obtuse is what this play is," a reviewer for United Press International wrote in 1987.
Ditto Apple's animoji, which you could call "cartoon deepfake puppetry" if you were feeling obtuse.
Hillary Clinton had very good ideas, but they were so obtuse that few understood them.
I tumbled to this once I got the OBT- in the OBTUSE angle-shaped squares.
From there, the images grow more obtuse, and the sense of immersion only becomes deeper.
The Office dedicates entire episodes to showcasing the obtuse ways Michael Scott handles workplace diversity.
It's more that the music is unrelentingly tense; the melodies intersect at obtuse and strange angles.
Lowndes also shared some photos on her Instagram account, though they were a little more obtuse.
I picked Numbers because it challenged me to get through something so dense and so obtuse.
Although if they're as obtuse as those from the game itself, we may not learn much.
But trolling can also encompass any kind of willfully obtuse nonsense that's designed to confuse people.
But on No Division, the band cut the obtuse constructions and focused on sing-along choruses.
The Mi lamp consists of two rods that intersect each other and create an obtuse angle.
The Federal Reserve's obtuse approach to this rule proposal is consistent with a politically charged approach.
What I got was the most aggressively obtuse piece of audiovisual media that I've ever experienced.
Democratic and Republican leaders declared that the president's statement was dishonest, morally blinkered and strategically obtuse.
"I don't avoid questions about my life because I am trying to be obtuse," he said.
This preliminary determination underscores the type of obtuse bureaucratic thinking the new administration wants to change.
Some will say it's pretentious, obtuse, and masturbatory, and they'd be able to find plenty of evidence.
Decibels, the rather obtuse unit of sound intensity, don't work quite the way inches or degrees do.
For example, the controls can be unwieldy and complex, and some of the puzzles are frustratingly obtuse.
The sequel is faster, less obtuse and supports two players at the same time in the story.
I'm trying to navigate a territory that feels coherent yet not as obtuse as my earlier stuff.
And remember, be as obtuse as possible and don't give up until they give you this product.
At other times, he came across as willfully obtuse, the product of an alt-right echo chamber.
It's kind of amazing how many people are just making crazy obtuse music and throwing it online.
This stuff isn't always intuitive, and the awards often explain it in a way that's confusing or obtuse.
The genre, though enormously popular at the time, quickly developed a reputation for obtuse puzzles and perfunctory mechanics.
What sets Super Gridland apart is both its survival twist and Townsend's penchant for obtuse design and storytelling.
On the DB11, this obtuse wheel is the first of its kind equipped with electric power-assisted steering.
Of course, the problem with adventure games historically is that the puzzles are often obtuse and overly complicated.
It can be frustratingly bureaucratic and obtuse, and like other institutions, it is often reactive rather than strategic.
This chimeric nightmare was posted earlier this week to obtuse, anti-humorous Facebook group Wet and Soggy Memes.
This may sound like a good talking point, but a moment's reflection reveals it to be morally obtuse.
Arms swing and click at obtuse angles, then his body unlocks, falling in a violent dip turned drop.
Among the most obtuse works in the anthology is Nicholas Verstraeten's contribution, which appears to be completely abstract.
Zach Swanson (Malan): The initial in-game logs were completely obtuse and not really helpful to the player.
Intimate conflicts arise from public ones: a relationship with obtuse but seemingly harmless neighbors deteriorates, with grave consequences.
This is how the UN works, a feature designed right into its nobly-intended but morally obtuse DNA.
Art can be expensive, and it can be challenging; it can be obtuse, and it can be provocative.
Pulisic's finish, from an awkward, wildly obtuse angle to the right of the goal, skimmed into the net.
In each America, people who inhabit the other are often perceived as not just obtuse but also dangerous.
But how do you get people to stop eating mouth-watering beef with such obtuse arguments as these?
They also adopted the obtuse symbolism contained within the Arnolfini, as well as explicit citations of domestic objects.
While the work may overwhelm as obtuse or dense, an underlying generosity of spirit invites the viewer to dwell.
After about 10 minutes into a multiplayer match, you'll start getting the hang of the game's somewhat obtuse mechanics.
There was only one way to make it even more obtuse and confusing, and somehow they found it. Seriously?
They huddle around the surface of the election's issues rather than taking a more in-depth or obtuse approach.
His plans are always meandering and obtuse as hell, usually involving him downing a piping hot bowl of humiliation.
The idea that Silicon Valley no longer funds big things isn't just wrong, but also obtuse and fairly dangerous.
But with their sometimes obtuse nature and unforgiving difficulty, older games won't necessarily have much lasting appeal for everyone.
" Henry realized it wasn't that his lyrics were obtuse, but "that my delivery system doesn't vibrate at this frequency.
I tend to find them either obvious or obtuse, and either way the solutions never really hold my interest.
This approach is effective, though obtuse and objective, at times too literal or illustrative for deeper meanings to become apparent.
This will sound obtuse or amorphous but it's really this idea of what does the future of work look like?
Too often, that means both sides assume the other is being intentionally obtuse or ridiculous, when deeper discussion is possible.
Second, that its format will be rendered obtuse and awkward if grown beyond the convenient current format of 32 nations.
They say it bears no resemblance to actual food safety standards; that some of the regulations are obtuse and outdated.
After all, the Fed is an obtuse institution and monetary policy is excruciatingly difficult to comprehend for the average citizen.
It retained the bright sensibilities of Mixed Drinks' chorus-heavy pop, but combined them with Organ Fight's more obtuse pleasures.
For a long arc of time, kids found it too obtuse, too indulgent, or too smooth—with very many o's .
We give you all the pieces you need to solve any puzzle in the game, and nothing is too obtuse.
We give you all the pieces you need to solve any puzzle in this game, and nothing is too obtuse.
It's tense: You have to continue to push forward and ask people questions that are sometimes obtuse and sometimes personal.
Zeus, who did not get to be king of the gods by being obtuse, immediately called in an impartial judge.
Zinke is often portrayed as the wildcard among Trump's appointees, since his views on climate change weren't always so obtuse.
Flush with tiny shrubberies and charmingly obtuse wading bodies, an illustration series mines the depths of a care-free life.
Yet instead of forming an obtuse mélange, the torn and tattered fabrics shimmer like a constellation against the picture's black backdrop.
I know it sounds obtuse, but that seems like the best beauty advice I could teach my 16-year-old self.  
Is the end of one's life just a series of obtuse puzzles designed to simultaneously bewitch, degrade, and upset the mind?
This debate divides, in part, between those who think Trump is merely inarticulate, and those who think he's being savvily obtuse.
The records see the band in its gestational period, quickly developing into an obtuse, aggressive band before dissolving just as quickly.
There's a lot of backtracking as new leads present themselves, and sometimes overcoming problem-solving plotline obstacles can be infuriatingly obtuse.
Something about the choppy structure and obtuse lyricism of their earlier releases was always a little off-kilter, a little darker.
But domestic shipping of LNG is made impossible by the obtuse Merchant Marine Act of 1920 — commonly called the Jones Act.
With no published documentation, and a coding style that Rajko describes as 'extremely obtuse', Discovery caused Rajko no end of frustration.
People talk in purposefully obtuse circles, displaying their academic bonafides like peacock feathers, useful to draw attention and absolutely nothing else.
During the news conference, he said that he was a "flexible person," but I believe him to be an obtuse one.
When critics trivialize a threat to Israel's border as "peaceful demonstrations," Israelis conclude that world opinion is either obtuse or hostile.
The idea of treating these two belligerents evenly is morally obtuse, but treating them fairly according to our interests is appropriate.
This is an obtuse process because it's not implemented in the usual, user-friendly way Apple usually implements features in its app.
Instead, what we got was a sprawling, obtuse, visually stunning, and sometimes maddeningly slow-moving art film — replete with many art references.
Eminem: "Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice,Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake"White People: "This is gold" — Kai.
When Cameron makes the game of her dreams, no one wants to play it — and the show suggests that it's fairly obtuse.
Bossa may be known for its purposefully obtuse controls in games like Surgeon Simulator, the studio says things are different with Decksplash.
Whether or not I believe in the afterlife, the "360-degree panoramic view," or his obtuse fortune-telling abilities is no matter.
The sparse, chromeless look of the app is reminiscent of Snapchat, but the navigation isn't nearly as difficult or obtuse as Snapchat's.
The narrative remains obtuse, but humanoid holograms slowly take form in a hallucinatory space that's somewhere between physics laboratory and editing bay.
For one, puzzles often felt deliberately obtuse, the kinds of frustrating adventure conundrums that went out of style a long time ago.
Health care is an inherently charged topic, and one that ordinary Americans can understand; tax policy is far more obtuse and clinical.
Our work might have been less obtuse had we shared the instincts of a New York University professor named Kim Phillips-Fein.
Mueller's final report included a detailed recitation of facts, but its conclusions were deliberately obtuse, which meant they changed almost nobody's mind.
Death Stranding is a game that is frequently original and odd and surprising, while also occasionally being heavy-handed, tedious and obtuse.
With appropriative text and visuals, the book is full of single-page mash-up vignettes of obtuse techno-speak and familiar graphics.
There are no setbacks, like being stuck on an obtuse puzzle, or fighting against the controls to navigate a perilous series of jumps.
Joelle, you recently replied to Ashton Kutcher, who I know pretty well, who wrote a publicly ... they were obtuse questions about this topic.
The water itself flows down to the floor below through an obtuse series of pumps and some sort of foam-making cyclotron thing.
Should you decide to do so, you will be in for hours of messing around and probably banging your head on obtuse clues.
First, only the most obtuse observer would think President Trump's comments about the FBI were meant to include ordinary agents in the field.
He just gave him a good look at ... that face ... and even the most obtuse and poisonous viper became a mewling little pussy.
Unlike the crooked geographies of San Francisco or Paris, where Flatirons abound, New York is perhaps a little too frenetic for obtuse living.
After re-releasing their obtuse debut, Roadkill, earlier this year, they decided to sketch out some new music, and this is the result.
Diario Ottuso | Obtuse Diary (2018) by Amelia Rosselli is published by Entre Rios Books and is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
The religious reader who approaches Atwood's novel with an open mind will still find that it sometimes veers into obtuse or silly territory.
They are instead listed under the developer Area 120, and the information they display when a user boots them up is similarly obtuse.
But if Sebastian and Grace need to be obtuse a little longer than feels plausible, it's worth it to draw out this delight.
Muddling along with Kir will likely be many readers, because this densely written novella starts in medias res and only gets more obtuse.
You can't use the touchscreen for adjusting any settings, which would really come in handy in Sony's obtuse, many-dozen-page menu system.
Pan Sonic's Ilpo and Mika's love for dub comes through at very obtuse angles in their catalog, but never as obviously as here.
Any corners have become cavernous and rounded from the innumerable lines of yarn of Chiharu Shiota's Trace of Memory, creating acute and obtuse angles.
This is neat development, if only because Snap has long prized its obtuse design as a hip badge of honor for younger smartphone owners.
Usually, these kinds of invites are either completely obtuse or subtly revealing, and yet Samsung's this go around is a bit down the middle.
Now it would be obtuse to think about World War II without placing the persecution and victimhood of the Holocaust at its moral center.
She also noted that the committee majority is "not obtuse to the fact that there are elections that are going to happen" in November.
It is a time when I feel that I am an obtuse detective missing an obvious clue about the future trajectory of the race.
What we're trying to say is that the band's upcoming 22, A Million album will be as beautiful as its song names are obtuse.
In Obtuse Diary Rosselli focuses on reexamining herself from different angles to seek a complete understanding of her feelings around a trauma of loss.
Spare me the "it's a scary time for young men in America" nonsense that's being parroted by the obtuse and ignorant misogynists, like Trump.
A couple of the dungeons are pretty obtuse and can take a couple of hours to figure out, but none of them are painful.
West redefined the most popular genre of music and became a sneaker icon while also making bold, oftentimes horrifically obtuse political and cultural statements.
It is not clear if they have been identified or if their inaction, however morally obtuse, qualifies as a criminal act where they live.
But for non-expert investors and observers, these opportunities can seem obtuse and obscured, buried in technical jargon and a heady amount of hype.
The Mall is complicated because it's a projection of its visitors, who are as kind, obtuse, generous, and heinous as our own neighbors can be.
Devore's riffs were certainly obtuse, but he didn't have the kind of math-rock-indebted approach that was emblematic of bands like Coalesce or Converge.
It's a phrase that's still ringing in my ears, as a shockingly obtuse rejection of civilized society and how real change happens in the world.
Both in production and persona, the masked Detroit music Moodymann is so unpredictable and obtuse that to even remark upon it is basically a cliche.
It was a rather offensive and obtuse show, with Bresch attempting to explain that those who distribute and manufacture the product also get a cut.
Or should I say FOUR MENUS - menu, "skinnylicious", drinks, cheesecakes (not desserts, that's different!)It is the most intentionally obtuse culinary document I've ever seen.
Wry and playful, except for when densely allusive and willfully obtuse, ­"Ninety-Nine Stories of God" is a treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces.
Though the results may seem obtuse and confusing at times, it's honestly no worse than the actual words human music writers typically devote to him.
SATURDAY PUZZLE — I have been flattened by whatever flu or cold is going around, so forgive me for being brief and/or obtuse this weekend.
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.
With the static, pre-rendered backgrounds, boat controls, and obtuse puzzles, Resident Evil 3 played like its predecessors but focused on action rather than horror.
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.
But by leaving so much up to the player, Vane's developers have also created an experience that can be obtuse and mystifying, often to its detriment.
In the long, obtuse history of Things That Became Memes, there are some obvious ones—Nyan Cat, say, or maybe Doge—and some less obvious ones.
Where previous special counsels like Whitewater's Kenneth Starr recommended impeachment, Mueller remained frustratingly opaque in a way that on Wednesday came off as obtuse at times.
All of the above were at one time the latest obtuse term for some complicated technology that's been hyped as the next leap in gaming graphics.
And for all his boldness in economic matters, he remains obtuse when it comes to political liberalisation that might help secure consent for the economic revolution.
The X-Files, which calmly and carefully closed a new case every week, couldn't be more structurally different from the open-ended, intentionally obtuse Twin Peaks.
Lynch can imbue mundane street scenes, obtuse sketches, and even photos of lamps (of which there is a whole series) with an ineffable sense of foreboding.
Mr Modi's opponents have blasted his policy as obtuse, destructive and downright criminal; some insinuate that his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was tipped off about the ban.
But the way the presidential candidates have been talking about reviving manufacturing jobs has not been very enlightening, and in some cases they have been willfully obtuse.
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.
Its free-form structure won't appeal to players who want specific goals out of their games, while its refusal to explain anything could come off as obtuse.
Some games, like The 7th Guest or Myst, took another approach, leveraging FMV as a stylistic asset, when the star of the show was the obtuse puzzles.
Though the fix here clearly involves dads doing more at home, men, even the lazy and obtuse ones, aren't solely to blame for a lack of progress.
Yet this by turns transporting, brow-furrowing, nostalgic and obtuse visual essay — inspired in part by the writings of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze — never feels overwhelming.
Similarly, while Bixler-Zavala would often get dismissed for being obtuse with his lyrics, "Napoleon Solo" showed his ability to transform his personal experiences into something universal.
The plot's a bit obtuse, but the video's quite tender—a collection of faraway glances and gentle caresses as the astronaut slowly finds home amidst the alienation.
Expectations that the travel ban will be its first and last result are wishful thinking — thanks to the Supreme Court's tone-deaf and morally obtuse judgment Tuesday.
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.
Either Mr. Trump is genuinely sympathetic to the David Duke types, or he is so obtuse as to be utterly incapable of learning from his worst mistakes.
The PPD's obtuse contention that in 1952 Congress somehow ceded its plenary powers has not found support in any of the three branches of the federal government.
By the end of 2013, Mike had put out another record (the rewardingly obtuse 4NML HSPTL), but was only a half-step ahead in terms of notoriety.
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.
It had a narrative, obtuse though it could be across its main installments, with countless tomes' worth of lore to digest, if you wanted to look for it.
" If they're as obtuse as they are judgy and maintain the breed-more pressure, then keep this handy and repeat — verbatim — as needed: "I'm not asking for advice.
Where Get Disowned drenched its meaning in obtuse symbolism, and Painted Shut featured vignettes of characters that only occasionally resembled Quinlan, Hop Along's new album feels fully hers.
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.
Super Castlevania IV After the obtuse secrets of Simon's Quest and the sprawling gameplay choice of III, Castlevania IV returned to its roots as a showcase action game.
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.
But it's also a fairly obtuse decision — one rooted more in the federal government's highly technical scheduling system than the question of whether marijuana really has medical value.
Search warrants granting permission to hack get issued using vague, obtuse language that hides what's really happening, and defense attorneys rarely challenge the hacking tools and techniques in court.
The latter is incredibly hard to do given the game's obtuse question formulation that tends to use near-impossible-to-know factoids to weed out large numbers of contestants.
Among all that loud, bolshy coverage, Muslims and those converting to Islam have been forced to deal with mistrust, obtuse interpretations of their beliefs, or just straight up hatred.
The Return is obtuse and jarring, even a bit alienating, and yet it seems to tilt toward some cohesive whole that only David Lynch and Mark Frost know about.
Amid the drones, Krautrock jams, and splendidly obtuse Dan Higgs records, the label has quietly been belching forth thought-provoking metal releases that gnaw at the genre's outer fringes.
Once [my wife and I's] text messages got sent out of order, and it made it appear like we were intentionally being obtuse in our responses with one another.
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.
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.
The sketch depicts the members of the committee as so mind-bogglingly obtuse on basic anatomy that they can barely utter the word "sex" without dissolving into scandalized tsk'ing.
"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.
She may be very obtuse about what she is doing to her relationship with her son and grandkids, but she is over-the-top sensitive about feeling rejected herself.
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.
That said, to believe the sex industry doesn't have an effect on the private lives and identities of its workers—as some pro-industry advocates argue anecdotally—is equally obtuse.
We'll dub it Benioffian — a way to describe a highly entertaining billionaire tech exec who has managed to play it coy, obtuse and blindingly obvious all at the same time.
Defying her host and contravening the apolitical rules of Eurovision aside, Madonna didn't do or say much besides create an obtuse spectacle against the backdrop of a frankly terrible song.
If that's the case, then bugs and glitches may—to be a bit deliberately obtuse about it—just be another problem for the player to solve, another dash of friction.
Those who want to compete online have to navigate obtuse systems and wait in line for their preferred match, only to end up in a game type they didn't want.
The $297 package offers unlimited emails, and the obtuse $897 edition (referred to as the "Peacock") comes with hour-long, one-on-one Skype strategy sessions and emergency phone access.
By a coincidence that its adherents insist is entirely innocent, this happens to be the Jewish state, making anti-Zionists either the most disingenuous of ideologues or the most obtuse.
In our interview, Brennan could be frustratingly obtuse about his motivations for studying porn, and you get the sense that this evasiveness comes with being a self-appointed dispassionate observer.
They may have whizzed by my son's head — he can be obtuse about things like this, which I'm sure the girlfriend will have lots of fun with over the years.
And yes it was artfully, sumptuously shot by director Steven Caple Jr. but I feel it would be obtuse of me not to note that everyone in it is stressfully beautiful.
Yes, nearly every textual faux pas is covered here: sending multiple messages in a row, verbose declarations of love after one date, weird grammar — even the classically obtuse "angel"/"angle" mixup.
But another turd clinker is Three Mile Island, the obsolete and obtuse description of time spent on the Greek island of Hydra, made no more interesting by flirting with its banality.
None of the ways in which Belichick has revealed himself to be personally dull, obtuse, blinkered, or cretinous have in any way eroded the scowling edifice of his very real genius.
It would have been equally obtuse, though, to complain that television was not important to the flow of events simply because people mostly used it to watch sitcoms and game shows.
Most of his songs—from the folksy and delicate to the obtuse and experimental—are hymns in one way or another, either lifted from scripture or written in response to it.
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.
Once ridiculed for its obtuse efforts at recovery, the Netherlands in the late 275s embraced progressive and pioneering efforts that have led it to be considered a model for enlightened restitution.
Her workplace landscape, much like that of her peers Liz Lemon and Leslie Knope, is a collage of obtuse obstacles, like her sexist-yet-dashing boss and her meddlesome mother (Andrea Martin).
At launch, the game had a $60 price tag and gated off portions of its content behind an obtuse system of credits and loot crates players could purchase for real world money.
Even if the game is occasionally obtuse on purpose, I want to give it credit for trying to put the player into the shoes of someone trying to solve an incredible riddle.
Banning video review so you can savor a play for an extra 15 seconds before the next play pushes that play out of your memory bank seems equal parts selfish and obtuse.
Her obtuse optimism at times took on absurd casts: "It can't happen to me; not a war, not to me," she was still telling herself in 1939, as she walked through Provence.
But for use in smaller spaces, those obtuse angles take up lots of space, making walking around the playpen a hassle if it can even fit into your living area at all.
" Chris in New Jersey called the book's prose "an ugly mashup of instructional manuals for cheap electronics and obtuse postmodern academic criticism, with a healthy dash of straightforward banality thrown in to boot.
First theres Facebook Story, a sensuel jam where an obtuse and arogant sounding frenchman tell a quasi profound story about a girl who DUMP him becase he refuse to accept her friend request.
I struggled to wrap my head around the controls for Cool Boarders 2, and I found the original Metal Gear Solid to be alarmingly obtuse, having last played it maybe 15 years ago.
" It's a bouncy, very Shins number that features typically obtuse turns of phrase from singer James Mercer such as "rolling down the ancient high street" and "you're flipping through the check-stand rags.
But until you are part of Detroit, you really don't know what any of it means, and your attempts to make symbols out of a living reality will feel ham-fisted and obtuse.
It plays like an obtuse version of Five Nights at Freddy's, except with a theme song sequence that freezes the controls so you can appreciate it in full, thereby making the game unwinnable.
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.
His response is either diplomatic or deliberately obtuse—I get the impression he's not on a crusade to take down the Mormon church, but merely to shine a light in its dustier corners.
But to say that anyone in double digits sizing is just not sexy is obtuse and tells me that we haven't been doing a great job at exposing large bodies as confident and erotic.
In Dark Souls and Bloodborne, players have to worry about weapon upgrades and a mountain of obtuse stats that'll send most players to a Dark Souls wiki to puzzle over what, exactly, "poise" does.
It is presented as a key step towards their eventual compromise, but the film's suggestion that years of systemic oppression of black people is somehow equivalent to one white person's suffering is painfully obtuse.
When I finally had some brief company on Saturday after a long day of reading my incredibly obtuse theological tome and thinking about the profundity of the human spirit, I almost cried from happiness.
That began Thursday, when the government unveiled the centerpiece of Mr. Macron's plan to revitalize the economy: an overhaul of the infamously cumbersome, obtuse and harmful labor rules, the 3,324-page Code du Travail.
India's top diplomats hailed the strikes in wickedly obtuse language as "pre-emptive nonmilitary strikes" and the giddily compliant news media were told by official sources that more than 300 militants had been killed.
Trump&aposs request to NATO to "become much more involved in the Middle East" during an address at the White House a day after Iran&aposs missile strike could hardly have been more obtuse.
Small bone fragments were still attached to the impact site, acute and obtuse fracture angles were apparent, and there was a permanent deformation of the bone after the force caused it to exceed natural flexibility.
While its puzzles could be obtuse at times, to say the least, they were never unsolvable just because an object was missed a few screens back, or insurmountable due to any degree of player imprecision.
In just over a thousand words and 10 minutes, he outlined the primary conclusions of his investigation and made clear, in his own obtuse way, that the next steps belong to House speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The game grows in difficulty, which is to say the solutions grow more creative and obtuse as time goes on, although the path to get to those solutions stays as simple as clicking and sliding.
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.
One is the collection's diaristic tone—from the removed accounts of "First Italian Prose" to the intimate, self-searching text of "Note" to the "autobiography as little biographical as possible" of the "Obtuse Diary" section.
Which means viewers are preparing to say goodbye to two groundbreaking characters: Rogelio de la Vega (Jaime Camil), the flamboyant telenovela star prone to narcissism, and Darryl (Pete Gardner), the affably obtuse law firm partner.
The centerpiece of Jonathan Saiz's show at Leon Gallery in Denver is a vast grid of 901 tiny paintings, the circles drawn around them and strings stretched between them evoking a conspiracy theorist's obtuse research.
The president's unwillingness to understand the rise of the alt-right, overt racism, and street violence as anything other than a need for "both sides do it" head shaking and finger wagging isn't just obtuse.
In general, the fact that Trump is an unusual figure is so obvious that the effort to deny it probably only makes Biden's critics look willfully obtuse in the eyes of many rank-and-file Democrats.
One of the most prominent is "blipster," a phrase we started using after passing around an obtuse and unintentionally hilarious 2007 NY Times profile on the rise of the "black hipster," African Americans who—imagine it!
If you're looking for a pair of hiking boots that are somewhat less obtuse than the busy, flashy, high-tech boots that are so terribly a la mode these days, these are the boots for you.
A plain reading of Article I, Section 85033 of the Constitution is necessary for an understanding of the breadth of congressional power, which can be summoned from somnambulance to shake even the most obtuse administration acolyte.
Smaller games tend not to receive this benefit of the doubt, with the more obtuse mechanics of something like Pathologic inevitably written off in mixed reviews as some janky technical problem or failure of game design.
The message was a reference to a character who gives obtuse answers during a Senate hearing in "The Godfather Part II" — and is a good example of the deep cultural impact that the series has had.
Her first experiment, "Margo," showcased an edgy R&B sound sculpted by the obtuse chords and production techniques she picked up as a music major, and her Soundcloud has since traced a wunderkind's exploration of contemporary sounds.
While finding all the items is effectively the end of the game, there are still more puzzles to solve, though these have a logic to them that can be a bit more obtuse than the main game.
Waits, meanwhile, constructs his music much like Miles Davis or Brian Eno: He assembles players, then puts them into odd configurations (as in "Jesus Gonna Be Here" — more on this later) or gives them deliberately obtuse direction.
For Zeman, smoking may well remain an act of cultural insubordination, flying in the face of present day sports science in the same way that his often obtuse formations fly in the face of the tactical norm.
Nothing they have done lately suggests that they have learned anything, including their obtuse post-#MeToo comments about Monica Lewinsky, who has been far more candid and sympathetic in the 20th anniversary retellings of the impeachment saga.
Reflected here is the obtuse belief that the populist tide is simply mistaken, that it has gotten something wrong, which has the effect of veiling the real and justified dissatisfaction with the past 40 years of neoliberalism.
In a nutshell, that means it does some cool things with exploration, but it's also friggin' hard and its obtuse UI makes gameplay feel a bit like trying to sign your name with a hammer and chisel.
If most drones feel tidal, ebbing and flowing in obtuse, but ultimately predictable ways, Lotfy's approach is more like the pools such motions leave behind, teeming with colorful life skittering over itself to take in the afternoon sun.
While Seinfeld's foursome display outsize, cartoonish traits (was anyone ever really as obtuse as George or as scattered as Kramer?), the four leads of You're the Worst are almost too accurate, their flaws too particular and dismayingly believable.
But unlike Roussel's complicated, obtuse, and interpretation-resistant opuses, Dada Africa: Non-Western Sources and Influences is a conceptually generous and lucid show that invites us to wonder what other appropriations we may have missed on other occasions.
The Soviet embeds Elizabeth and Philip have a new target, their daughter Paige keeps maturing into a deadly problem, the F.B.I. agent Stan Beeman remains wonderfully obtuse, and before the first hour is over, someone we like dies.
Bad website user interfaces are perhaps the worst part of the internet: spammy pop-ups designed to trick you, dark patterns that are intentionally misleading, and just plain obtuse design decisions that make filling out a form virtual hell.
The imprint's latest, a collaboration between Philadelphia's Pontiac Streator (who also made an appearance on the Leeds' record as Pendant) and the Chicagoan Ulla Straus, continues this trend, shrouding found samples and stomach-churning sub-bass in obtuse effects.
Of course, Holbrooke could be belligerent, obtuse, and impatient: "Is he one of those guys you have to sit around and drink tea with for hours?" he complains about a Saudi go-between at one point in this book.
Gordon is well-intentioned but morally a little obtuse — a stand-in for the reader, perhaps — and his gradual discovery of the mindlessness and injustice of prison life, especially on death row, is one of the book's plot levers.
As the skiers rotate, one can photograph them upside down or in some obtuse position that is both unfamiliar and wondrous to our eyes or, in this case, seeming to circle the earth like a satellite in the cosmos.
"No one seemed to object," he told a lawyer representing three women who are involved in an ongoing lawsuit against him, though he seemed to remain willfully obtuse about the power balance he had acknowledged elsewhere in the deposition.
Just as the full text of the book is appropriative, so too are the visuals, with each page illustrated in the style of a different comic, creating single-page mash-up vignettes of obtuse techno-speak and familiar graphics.
Anyone who tries to make sense of the clotted and obtuse language of the obstruction statutes and the utterly unhelpful court interpretations — especially the Aguilar case — would realize that it is a little disingenuous to label these as separate elements.
It's the latest (and most obtuse) part of a wide-reaching plan for Amazon to control its own delivery service, which includes warehouses it owns, warehouses it doesn't own, a network of couriers and courier company partnerships, and now... doorbells.
The new version of "Confusion" is tighter and heavier than the original, held down by Stiller's driving beat and, I guess, the fact that these people all do important jobs now and don't have time to be wilfully obtuse anymore.
Waitress, by contrast, never lets its violent character, Earl, benefit from the self-awareness of The Color Purple's Harpo and Mister: He remains oblivious and obtuse throughout, and the burden of changing her situation is placed entirely on Jenna's shoulders.
He formed Theoretical Girls with Margaret De Wys and N. Dodo Band's Jeffrey Lohn and Mark Anthol before going on to release his debut solo piece, Lesson No. 1—a record that was in turn hypnotic and obtuse—in 1981.
While there was truth to that, the fact that it was released on Jade Tree, a label that was home to plenty other punks turning in artier, more obtuse records, Jets To Brazil was the latest example of the genre's expansion.
Whereas canceling someone or something tends to apply to more obtuse rejections and dismissals (for example, announcing you are "canceling 2018" or "canceling winter"), "delete" feels more powerful and actionable, since it applies to doing something within your realm of control.
The most aggressively obtuse pieces of audio visual media The play introduces who we're led to believe is Dr. Frankenstein, who makes the common mistake of referring to Frankenstein's monster as just "Frankenstein," which is quickly pointed out to him.
The "plight" of Louis C.K. or Charlie Rose inspires no sympathy, and the attempts at reflection and self-rehabilitation by various fallen men — John Hockenberry in Harper's, Jian Ghomeshi in The New York Review of Books — have mostly been obtuse.
" After the election, Ribuffo told me that if he were to write a similar response today, he would call it, "Why Is There So Much Scholarship on 'Conservatism,' and Why Has It Left the Historical Profession So Obtuse About Trumpism?
The fact that the brave new online world of social media may be particularly psychologically unhealthy for young women, for instance, seems like a telling indicator of what can go wrong with a virtual architecture built by brilliant and obtuse males.
It's all delightful but not strictly necessary, because the best of the illustrations have it all: the adventurous synthesis of scientific and aesthetic wonder, the precise observation and detail, and the slightly bitter aftertaste of cheerfully obtuse latter-day colonialism.
Marianne Bellotti of the United States Digital Service does an incredible job of explaining clearly and reasonably the obtuse and unintuitive regulatory obstacles the government has made for itself when it comes to making websites for citizens to interface with its various agencies.
Image: Adam Clark Estes/GizmodoWhile it produces fantastic audio, Apple's new HomePod smart speaker has also annoyed early users with obtuse software limitations, a lack of real Bluetooth connectivity, and missing multi-room playback support that won't come until later this year.
While the Trump administration has been deliberately obtuse about its intents, the "zero tolerance" approach appears to be part of a strategy to scare people from illegally crossing the border — by, essentially, using the possibility of parents losing their kids as a threat.
As an artist and a critic, I very much appreciate the distinction between objects and concepts I have to wrestle or manipulate to find resolution, and those that are obtuse or impenetrable because they have not been designed for accessibility by any means.
In other words, Coates' analysis of black history is not truth, but one proposition among many, and by no means so self-evident or empirically impregnable that anyone deserves to be beaten over the head as morally obtuse for not agreeing with it.
Tapping the Ray twice will make the LED light flash to indicate how far along I am to my activity goal, but the obtuse sequence of blinking colors isn't particularly informative and I often forgot which lights corresponded to which level of completion.
In the books, there's a feeling that Mr. Poe, the family banker who's in charge of handing the children over to one terrible guardian after another, is a side note — a minor character who shows up only to be officious and obtuse.
From tongue-in-cheek nods to Black Sabbath to the pulled-to-bits cover of "American Woman," these are tracks that switch in tempo from slow creeping terrors to wild sweat-inducing abandon, and nightmarish narratives woven with puerile and obtuse wordplay.
Because we care about health, here's a brief list of some obtuse suggestions for this playlist and for you to memorize the next time you find yourself in the situation of saving a stranger's life on some Jack Shepard from Lost shit.
Green said he couldn't understand how anyone could possibly think he was trying to hit Adams in the nuts, which seemed like an intentionally obtuse thing to say, but maybe he just expects us to watch him closer than we apparently have been.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Amelia Rosselli's "rational prose experiments," Diario Ottuso | Obtuse Diary, is a curious collection of three "unintentionally united" texts written between 1954 and 1968 and presented in both English and their original Italian by Entre Rios Books.
Opinion Columnist This week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked his opinion on the paying of reparations to the descendants of slavery in America, and he came down solidly on the side of "no" and on the side of being intentionally obtuse.
What this means in practice is the publishers are required to lie to their readers, and—simply because of the obtuse nomenclature and unyielding rules adopted by Facebook—present editorial stories and video as produced "with" an advertiser that played no role in their creation.
" Mimicking the obtuse voice of Life, Updike wrote: "Ever since the history-dimmed days when Christopher Columbus, a Genoese male, turned his three ships (Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria) toward the United States, men have also played a significant part in the development of our nation.
Was Williams so obtuse, so self-involved, as to be unaware that, as Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's 1938 "September Song" had it, the days had dwindled down to a precious few for something like 90 or 100 million souls worldwide, including over 400,19523 Americans?
But in actuality, obtuse conversations, which are triggered by finding the other playable characters in any number of potential city inns they may or may not be in or completing a task for another character somewhere else, will actually lead to more locations being unlocked.
But when the book begins in earnest, the sisters' lives have become decidedly terrestrial: Kate has abandoned prediction for obtuse suburban bliss, and loony Violet remains in the occult business, predicting a big earthquake after their hometown of St. Louis is rocked by tremors.
To his critics, they sounded like a callous and obtuse dismissal of the hard choices that struggling families face every day — and one that echoed earlier, racially noxious arguments over "welfare queens" and criticisms of programs that helped provide phone service to poor people.
At the time, mail art was becoming a useful way to share work, and the unsettling nature of Applebroog's books — obtuse but disturbing phrases like "NOBODY EVER DIES OF IT," images of men and women, frozen in the middle of vague scenarios — prompted hate mail in response.
His question implied that I was incomplete without offspring; that I traveled not to see the world but to fill a yawning chasm in my life; that I was dishonest or somehow obtuse when I claimed not to want children; that I didn't know my own mind.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's congressional bid was preceded by a decade in which many youthful nonreactionaries despaired of democratic institutions' ability to deliver any kind of systemic change — and chafed at the obtuse contempt with which older, more established liberals frequently reacted to demands for bolder action.
Thimbleweed Park, from its interface to its aesthetic through to its quirky humor, follows in the stylistic footsteps of the designer's previous works Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island (to name but two), but supposedly ditches the more obtuse elements of those games' puzzle-solving methods.
But as far-right politicians extolling white-supremacist and xenophobic party lines gain stronger footholds in the United States, Germany, the UK, and Austria—to name just a few examples—FIFA declaring "mission accomplished" for its part in fighting racism comes off as either hopelessly obtuse or willfully ignorant.
But at her strongest moments of the debate, Clinton turned the case for pragmatism into the case for moral action in the face of obtuse partisanship: Sure, it's great to dream big, but it's more responsible to do what's in the realm of the possible when it's urgent to act.
This proposed solution makes an obtuse attempt at suggesting the cost of obtaining a classroom education in aviation, combined with formal, in-flight training, should equal that of obtaining a classroom education at a community college; wholly ignoring the market and devaluing the public's perception of a career in aviation.
Caroline Framke: There were a lot of things in "Python, Part 1" that I liked a lot — namely Portia Doubleday's wonderfully subtle performance, surprising no one who reads these recaps — but I agree that this episode felt strangely obtuse, especially since it comes so late in an already (deliberately) confusing season.
The developer has often made obtuse, sometimes mind-boggling decisions that are either left in place without further comment or largely ignored until players either become fed up and stop playing or voice enough criticism that Bungie rolls back the change or, at the very least, offers more detailed reasoning for it.
This is a hard thing for video games to replicate because they track so much data that they take a lot of the guesswork out of your calculations—and if a game doesn't track useful information for me, I'm probably going to complain about how intentionally obtuse and user unfriendly it's being.
Even investment strategists — a tribe always at the ready with the best relative values in stocks and bonds — acknowledge the "optionality" value of cash these days, which is an obtuse way of saying it makes sense to have some money on the sidelines ready to get back in the game after sell-offs.
At first, the Charge 3's black-and-white display doesn't seem much larger than the one found on the Charge 2, but the bezels aren't as obscene, and the display itself, in my limited experience with it, was much more responsive than the infuriatingly obtuse ones found in many of Fitbit's other products.
In fact, I might go so far as to say that The Deuce is Simon's most accessible show ever, with far more inviting entry points than the much more daunting The Wire and the much more obtuse Treme (a show I love but one that you have to be incredibly committed to to enjoy).
By modeling his black hero on himself as opposed to an ideal of racial excellence like Black Panther or blaxploitation stereotypes like Luke Cage, McFarlane tapped into a humanity with Spawn that is rarely granted to black characters when they are being written by white men, who often other their personalities into obtuse caricatures.
Mundanities such as the overworld map—added at the insistence of playtesters, as the duo wanted to trust the player to figure it out themselves—or an insistence on JRPG-esque "save points" can feel obtuse and deliberately retrograde, a product of an attitude that would make the self-styled "old-schoolers" nod with aplomb.
"A decade ago, the mayor was pretty obstinate and obtuse on issues related to black, brown, and working communities and how his policies affect that, and the most powerful one is policing, but there are other ones as well," Williams, who was on the City Council during Bloomberg's last term as mayor, told BuzzFeed News.
But the way that "Metalhead" conflates Bella's seeming eventual suicide (after realizing how many trackers are embedded beneath her skin) with that open box of teddy bears suggests a deeper, larger meaning that is either insultingly shallow — look at us silly humans, going out of our way for our dumb creature comforts when they're largely unnecessary — or willfully obtuse.
Um, so the tldr of it is that a bunch of deranged Trump supporters have convinced themselves that Donald Trump and the military are secretly fighting a international cabal of pedophiles, and that Donald Trump is revealing his master plan via a series of very very obtuse and vague clues that are being released into the media.
"The question, as obtuse as it might sound to the interviewee, is the beginning of a story and in today's world of selling oneself, or one's company, it's the ability to tell a story and create a feeling that sells the brand — whether it's a product or a person," said managing partner Richard Funess in a LinkedIn post.
"It all has to be there, for that one time somebody will try to talk to the toaster," Barr says to me, both referencing the lunacy that solved some of yesteryear's more head-scratching puzzles and the fact that not having those obtuse elements, to at least a small degree would be a disservice to future adventures.
And so in many ways, my hatred of AirPods is actually just misdirected anger toward myself at being complicit in the rapid displacement of the working class in the city I live in, even as I try to persuade myself that as a black woman, I am somehow different — not as obtuse, not as likely to call the police on imaginary infractions.
Rather than trying to present a definitive picture of Sakamoto (which would be impossible here), I'd like to take as an entry point works that fit within the former branch that I described—music that reaches out towards new, undefined places, music that is experimental and adventurous, at times obtuse and difficult, and always working to push boundaries and create new vocabularies.
Skydeck's debut record, out next year on Dinosaur City Records and Burger Records, is a strange artefact, an 11-track record that seems to gesture towards anti-capitalist sentiment but does so in entirely obtuse ways: One song is composed entirely of disparaging spoken word about Melbourne street artist Lush Sux; on others, you can hear snatches of bands like Ought or Tuxedomoon.
And if anyone was obtuse enough to harbor any genuine doubts about whether a shakedown had gone down, President TrumpDonald John TrumpStates slashed 4,400 environmental agency jobs in past decade: study Biden hammers Trump over video of world leaders mocking him Iran building hidden arsenal of short-range ballistic missiles in Iraq: report MORE's chief of staff helpfully clarified the matter.

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