obtrudes

I don't mean to say that I regret my action, nor will I pretend that I can't sleep o 'nights in consequence; still, the idea obtrudes itself that he made so much of his disgrace while it is the guilt alone that matters.

Lord Jim 1899

I don't mean to say that I regret my action, nor will I pretend that I can't sleep o 'nights in consequence; still, the idea obtrudes itself that he made so much of his disgrace while it is the guilt alone that matters.

Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890

I don’t mean to say that I regret my action, nor will I pretend that I can’t sleep o’ nights in consequence; still, the idea obtrudes itself that he made so much of his disgrace while it is the guilt alone that matters.

Lord Jim 1900

Here, in a series titled Third Person, are lesser stars whose faces are half-hidden by anonymous silhouettes, from the depths of which a third image obtrudes: a garish landscape or an eerie flight of birds.

Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011

But reality obtrudes on Adam's posturing "potentiality."

The Illusion Of Things Sam Sacks 2011

In the fairy tale, nature, whether as tree, wind, rain, or helpful creature (deer, nightingale, hound), lends a loving hand or obtrudes a warning obstacle.

'A Short History of Celebrity' 2010

This is a question which constantly obtrudes itself today—a world problem, as well as one for the poverty-stricken nations.

Mater et Magistra 2008

It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists.

"Well, there's something known as American conservatism, though it does not even call itself that." Ann Althouse 2008

And yet we claim to be astonished, dismayed, and on the verge of disillusionment when, again and again, the violence that informs all of these cultural fundamentalisms veers out of 'control,' out of the realm of the 'manageable,' and obtrudes its indiscriminate nature - its essential nature - into areas we indignantly proclaim 'out of bounds.'

The 'Unmanageability' of Violence 2007

Her Majesty is no stranger to a vault or firmament, of a sort of floorcloth, with an indistinct pattern distantly resembling eyes, which occasionally obtrudes itself on her repose.

Reprinted Pieces 2007