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  • Reverie intrudes at intervals.†   (source)
  • A completely secure internet would be the same as a world with cameras on every corner and in every home, recording our every movement, but it would be even more intrusive.†   (source)
  • I don't want to intrude, but would you mind if I came, too?†   (source)
  • What we ended up doing—and I know it sounds highly intrusive—was to remove every opportunity for deceit from Cassie's personal life.†   (source)
  • My words intruded slowly.†   (source)
  • There was an expression of such dejection on her face that even to be in the room felt like intruding.†   (source)
  • If Laila spoke to them, Rasheed looked up with displeasure at the unwelcome intrusion.†   (source)
  • I apologize for this intrusion, but you have a visitor.†   (source)
  • Somehow, it seemed like a way to hide from Teresa's intrusion into his mind.†   (source)
  • He tried to keep his mind on flying, but something else kept intruding.... Any second now, he might hear his mother again...but he shouldn't think that, or he would hear her again, and he didn't want to...or did he?†   (source)
  • I felt intrusive, as reporters often do, and I began to think that a tape machine between two people who were supposedly friends was a foreign object, an artificial ear.†   (source)
  • and any sort of intrusion will not be tolerated.†   (source)
  • No intruding on his wife and children, I don't see there's any hurry to do something like that.†   (source)
  • The room was cramped and even though there was an extra chair, I felt like I was intruding.†   (source)
  • No. No, we can't call the Costellos now We can't intrude on them now.†   (source)
  • There's no lock, but Gram has this thing about waiting until I say come in, she makes a big deal about not intruding.†   (source)
  • Ty's attitude intruded itself, soothing me, counseling me to let things slip over me like water or something else harmless but powerful.†   (source)
  • Many of the older surfers resented the sudden influx of "kooks" and "gremmies"— names given to pretenders, beginners, or wannabes—as well as the crowding of their surf spots and the intrusion into their simple, relaxed lifestyle.†   (source)
  • How dare he ask such intrusive, gossipy questions in the reading room and write her a creepy e-mail!†   (source)
  • And it turned out that Owen Meany didn't know a metamorphic schist from an igneous intrusion—unless the latter was granite.†   (source)
  • I am talking about Little Red Riding Hood, an extremely unpleasant little girl who, like the Boy Who Cried Wolf, insisted on intruding on the territory of dangerous animals.†   (source)
  • We're getting intruded!†   (source)
  • "By what right do you savages intrude on our councils?" demanded Ser Kevan.†   (source)
  • As I ran the sound of my footfalls was pitched off short in the vast immobile dawn, as though there was no room amid so many glittering sights for any sound to intrude.†   (source)
  • Cecilia's enthusiasm, for example, seemed a little overstated, tainted with condescension perhaps, and intrusive too; her big sister wanted each bound story catalogued and placed on the library shelves, between Rabindranath Tagore and Quintus Tertullian.†   (source)
  • Then the silence intruded even there and Jack turned where he sat.†   (source)
  • Then as she looked, a living thing dared to intrude upon this untouched wilderness.†   (source)
  • Len felt he was intruding on this man's private rituals.†   (source)
  • From ground level, New Beijing was a mess—too many buildings crammed into too little space, the streets untended, power lines and clotheslines strung across every alley, intruding vines scurrying up every concrete wall.†   (source)
  • Never intrusive.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't want to intrude, not for all the money in the world.†   (source)
  • Such intrusions are so common that Border Patrol agents advise ranchers to leave water and food outside, beside their doors.†   (source)
  • And if you must intrude, I'll tell you.†   (source)
  • We buried her on a gusty, warm morning, Go and Nick leaning in to each other as I stood nearby, feeling intrusive.†   (source)
  • Red squirrels scampered into the trees, chattering in protest at their intrusion.†   (source)
  • I didn't tell him I was irritated by his intrusion into my sleep.†   (source)
  • Aw, tell him who's got his bike," another voice intrudes, a sharp voice with the flint of New England in the words.†   (source)
  • She smiled in apology, as if she had been intruding.†   (source)
  • Although Mack felt like he was intruding, no one else seemed concerned and he really had no idea where he would have gone in any case.†   (source)
  • She closed her eyes against the sudden harsh intrusion.†   (source)
  • The presence of an infant intruded upon Sol's solipsistic life as a serious academic and Sarai's profession as music critic for Barnard's datasphere, but neither minded.†   (source)
  • I stood off to the side feeling like a voyeur intruding on this private moment, not quite knowing what to do with myself.†   (source)
  • The woman speaks in a soft voice as if she suspects she is intruding.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes, but the light still intruded, so I added a pillow over the top half of my face.†   (source)
  • Over the years she had developed a series of defenses to protect herself from the unwanted intrusions of the dead.†   (source)
  • I don't want to intrude.†   (source)
  • The grinding roar of the plow's diesel engine intruded over the bellow of the wind, and then the sound of its airhorn, hard, long, almost deafening.†   (source)
  • She'd been raising him completely on her own for months now, and I was intruding on her routines and ways of doing things.†   (source)
  • We are very likely defenseless against intrusive external forces such as talking dogs, messages in bananas, and thunderstorms booked in advance.†   (source)
  • 'I ask you to keep them away from us,' I said at the door; but I couldn't look back at him, didn't even want the soft intrusion of his voice.†   (source)
  • She wanted to resist them, wanted to pry those intrusive voices out of her head.†   (source)
  • I was intruding on his grief, it was wrong.†   (source)
  • Why would any high school football star waste his time answering the questions of a stranger and filling out intrusive forms?†   (source)
  • This was no time to allow personal views to intrude on his thinking.†   (source)
  • I won't intrude.†   (source)
  • Each of the six of us in that aircraft en route to Afghanistan had constantly in the back of our minds the ever-intrusive rules of engagement.†   (source)
  • He did everything this way, with so much discretion and such efficiency that it did not even occur to anyone that it might be an intrusion in other people's affairs; on the contrary, it seemed a priceless service when evil times had fallen on the house.†   (source)
  • It's the tongue: Once you think of the tongue it becomes an intrusion.†   (source)
  • To her surprise, Salander found his uninvited intrusion acceptable—well, at least not unpleasant.†   (source)
  • But could he stop the intrusion?†   (source)
  • "intrude," and "infringe."†   (source)
  • As Kevin, Joey, and I went door to door in trailer parks and other neighborhoods, we watched God use our inadequate but sincere intrusion into the area as almost thirty people committed their lives to the Lord.†   (source)
  • The cargo handlers left without intruding on the Great Hall.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't want to intrude, he said because he was a sly one, you had to admit that.†   (source)
  • It took me a while to get to sleep and when I did, Mom and Dad and Miss Riley and Mr. Caton and Calvin Suggs alternately intruded into my dreams.†   (source)
  • David reached to straighten it, but pulled his hand back at the last minute, as if this would be too great an intrusion.†   (source)
  • Clancy's intrusion came like all the others had before, first with a tingle, then with a roar.†   (source)
  • I don't want to intrude.†   (source)
  • Shouldn't we be yelling out the window at them, 'Leave us alone, we've been through enough, get out of here with your vile instruments of intrusion.'†   (source)
  • I shift my weight from one foot to the other—I feel like I'm intruding on a private moment.†   (source)
  • She had seen the way his eyes kept roving over Grace's body, siphoning agony from every intrusion the doctors had made.†   (source)
  • Now and then a completely unrelated image intrudes momentarily.†   (source)
  • The presence of others, walking past them, walking toward them, erupting rudely out of doorways and taxicabs, and springing up from the curbs, intruded painfully on their stillness and seemed to menace their connection.†   (source)
  • That was perceived as scandalously intrusive.†   (source)
  • On the porch, the officer intruded on her thought& "Go on in," he prompted, making it fairly clear that if she didn't open the door, he would.†   (source)
  • What I mean is that no, you definitely aren't intruding, and yes, I accept your offer.†   (source)
  • Instead, he seemed grateful to see her, worried about intruding on her time.†   (source)
  • I asked, forgetting that I risked rebuke by intruding on the conversation of my betters.†   (source)
  • He feared that something had happened to his men, yet hope kept intruding on that thought.†   (source)
  • My intrusion here is because of the way Morgenstern uses parentheses.†   (source)
  • Sefelt wheeled the colonel back to the dorm and showed the girl where the latrine was personally, told her it was generally used by males only but he would stand at the door while she was in there and guard against intrusions on her privacy, defend it against all comers, by gosh.†   (source)
  • Still, it seems, business was business and not to be intruded upon.†   (source)
  • Once more, she had the feeling that her mother's world was intruding on her.†   (source)
  • My world was going to be emptier and dryer, but the agony of having him intrude into every private second would be gone.†   (source)
  • I don't want to intrude," Kirsten told her.†   (source)
  • For instance, the World Health Organization bureaucrats stationed in Moscow resented the intrusion on their turf of nongovernmental organizations, such as pih and Soros's foundation, which itself, according to Alex, contained competing factions, because Soros liked to create competition inside his own organizations.†   (source)
  • The visitors entered uncertainly as though they felt they were intruding, tiptoeing in with stares of meek apology, first the grieving mother and father, then the brother, a glowering heavy-set sailor with a deep chest.†   (source)
  • They had a connection so special it sometimes made me feel I should turn away, that I was intruding.†   (source)
  • I hope I'm not intruding—your father was kind enough to-let me tag along after our pitch in Boston.†   (source)
  • Moody's presence on the shoppihg trips was intrusive.†   (source)
  • Daphne could not remember his name but he was hopping up and down like someone who does not want to intrude but needs to, well, intrude.†   (source)
  • Be in the wrong place at the wrong time, sit in "someone's" seat, intrude where you were not wanted, ask the wrong question, and you'd get called out and bawled out in a hurry, either by a terrifying prison guard or by a terrifying convict (sometimes in Spanish).†   (source)
  • This was the second time she had intruded in the middle of a possible crime scene.†   (source)
  • She was not smiling and seemed irritated by this intrusion.†   (source)
  • But inside the Kennedy White House, Jackie sees to it that none of these political and social upheavals intrude on creating the perfect environment to raise a family.†   (source)
  • How hard would it be for them to take us down and contain the intruding animals?†   (source)
  • He is quite just to protest my intrusion.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, life in Appleton, Wisconsin, seemed to lilt along almost in defiance of the Depression, or any other unwelcome intrusion.†   (source)
  • He was screaming on the inside, but his lips remained totally silent as he defi antly stared D'Ablo down, his left eyebrow starkly raised as if the vampire's intrusion had only been a minor surprise.†   (source)
  • Sorry to intrude, but I'm here to take little Alexander to be weighed.†   (source)
  • Her experiences with that particular intrusive routine hadn't been pleasant.†   (source)
  • The long-beaked black bird was sitting atop one of the trees nearby, protesting this sudden intrusion.†   (source)
  • Whispering in each other's ear, so as not to intrude upon others still listening to Hillary, they held their heads close.†   (source)
  • "The only place you'll find a map of Blackcliff," a raspy voice intrudes, "is in the Commandant's head.†   (source)
  • It avoids what linguists call the intrusive "r," pronouncing saw as sawr or, as John Kennedy did, Cuba as Cuber.†   (source)
  • I climb into Zach's backseat (not because he and Beanie are dating or anything, but because she's known him longer than me and I don't want to intrude), but who do you suppose is sitting in the back of Zach's car?†   (source)
  • It was an intrusion on his reality.†   (source)
  • A dark outline darker than the wall, an intrusion of black on lesser black-obscure, faint, barely discernible, but there.†   (source)
  • Lady Denby's thoughts intrude on my own: This is what comes of not playing by the rules.†   (source)
  • Setting the tray on the table, he turned to pin her with one of his long, intrusive stares.†   (source)
  • I stayed where I was because I didn't want to intrude.†   (source)
  • It was as if men didn't really belong here and their intrusion, while necessary, was an afterthought of Fundidora's creation.†   (source)
  • Pair an intrusive, usually ignorant, and often suspicious press corps with an intensely private trainer, and you have a volatile mix.†   (source)
  • They were camped on a small sandbar that jutted into the lake, and as the fire died down he could see the stars without the intrusion of wavy air or flashing smoke.†   (source)
  • It was probably only meant to be a stop against the intrusion of Shelob, fastened on the inside with some latch or bolt beyond the reach of her cunning.†   (source)
  • He walked, thinking that even this sight still retained the power to be of value: it gave him the promise of a long stretch of space undisturbed by human intrusion.†   (source)
  • You may find all that too intrusive, living with the past as present.†   (source)
  • They didn't like me intruding on their conversations, but I studied them nevertheless, knowing that I would be part of my own sworn sisterhood in another two years.†   (source)
  • Fingers of ivy were intruding through the broken panes.†   (source)
  • "Oh, no, we don't want to intrude," Corinne said.†   (source)
  • How dare you intrude here anyway?†   (source)
  • Crenshinibon, with its subconscious intrusions, had coached Kessell well.†   (source)
  • In the instant of stunned silence that followed his intrusion, Joe turned away from the men, shaking, shaking, the shattering sound still tremulant in his memory, still vibrating in his bones.†   (source)
  • They all represented unwelcome intrusions of foreign objects fired with violent velocity into his person.†   (source)
  • I do not wish to intrude upon your thoughts and schemes.†   (source)
  • The people find excise taxes intrusive and dictatorial.†   (source)
  • She was so intrusive, so sure of her welcome, so utterly lacking in self-consciousness.†   (source)
  • We were, but she said she didn't want to intrude on our impromptu reunion.†   (source)
  • The windows of the house are lit up, and I know she is in there with her parents who love her but hate me, and I don't want to intrude.†   (source)
  • But we could not, although the door stood open, for, sudden shyness had set a stranglehold upon us and the sense of intrusion was strong ....and in the end we stood by the open doorway and called.†   (source)
  • And the handsome creature who had just intruded on her Sunday-morning coffee, who had dared to touch the hem of her sleeve, was of no consequence.†   (source)
  • "The King wants this American intrusion into French territory stopped, and stopped at once," said Bonaparte.†   (source)
  • It was very important that he know I was not intruding.†   (source)
  • The music was uninspired, but it did not intrude on my thoughts and had a calming effect on me.†   (source)
  • The squirrels scurried up the pines, peered at him from the high branches, scolded at his intrusion.†   (source)
  • But another world's intrusion into this one.†   (source)
  • This was excellent news, for it ensured that my study of the wolves would not be adversely affected by human intrusions.†   (source)
  • If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now, protected by the mountains and the river, the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.†   (source)
  • Thank God, I thought, no more annotated climaxes to intrude on my work and composure.†   (source)
  • Let no member of the family intrude in the guest chamber.†   (source)
  • The Shadow world is then one's own, save for family intrusions, to do with as one would.†   (source)
  • ...Or am I intruding into the holy of holies?†   (source)
  • They waited while the man came by, intruding on their privacy, and disappeared, as someone nearly always did, and then relaxed sharply into the pleasure of their privacy; but this time Rufus' father did not hum, nor did he say anything, nor even touch the rock with his hand, but sat with his hands hung between his knees and looked out over North Knoxville, hearing the restive assemblage o†   (source)
  • She did not call her that in front of Mrs. Hopewell who would have been incensed but when she and the girl happened to be out of the house together, she would say something and add the name Hulga to the end of it, and the big spectacled Joy-Hulga would scowl and redden as if her privacy had been intruded upon.†   (source)
  • The gesturing people, who seemed actually to be turning artificial smiles upon them, were enclosed by walls papered in an intrusive design of balls and bubbles, lights behind poppy shades.†   (source)
  • This business of getting the votes is a severely practical one into which matters of morality, of right and wrong, should not be allowed to intrude.†   (source)
  • Tony Marston also turned away, and pretended to be inspecting the condition of the field; he did not want to intrude on this grief.†   (source)
  • But all of a sudden such a question seemed intrusive.†   (source)
  • They could enjoy the rest of their visit without thoughts of home intruding constantly.†   (source)
  • He glanced at Aris, who looked sheepish, like he'd intruded on a private conversation.†   (source)
  • This is the heart of Gilead, where the war cannot intrude except on television.†   (source)
  • I suppose maybe he thinks a visit might help our discussions, but I feel like it's an intrusion.†   (source)
  • Where are you with the intrusive thoughts?†   (source)
  • Roran continued for a few yards, then halted as a scent intruded on his thoughts.†   (source)
  • "Sorry to intrude," said Scrimgeour, as he limped to a halt before the table.†   (source)
  • Without Mom and Dad joining me, I felt like I was intruding and turned to go.†   (source)
  • He places a chair against the door, to prevent unwelcome intrusion.†   (source)
  • Sorry to intrude, sir, but it's really unwise to stay out this late for so long.†   (source)
  • But if she recovers, would she forgive me for such an intrusion?†   (source)
  • The strident warble of Oromis's teakettle intruded, escalating in volume until Eragon's ears rang.†   (source)
  • I don't want to intrude, wouldn't be here at all if Percy hadn't wanted to see you all so badly....†   (source)
  • Again, I'm sorry to intrude, but I need to speak to America.†   (source)
  • I heard doors open, I saw hands intrusive and ugly in their threats.†   (source)
  • A man's voice intruded: "He liked music betimes, Jamis did.†   (source)
  • His point of view began to intrude on the narrative.†   (source)
  • Neither the Liddells nor Leopold had noticed the intrusion.†   (source)
  • Neither he nor Hatsue had wanted the war to come—neither of them had wanted that intrusion.†   (source)
  • He would not allow Tenorio to intrude upon our quiet hills.†   (source)
  • Teabing scowled at the ill-timed intrusion.†   (source)
  • Reality, however, was quick to intrude on McCandless's reverie.†   (source)
  • Worse than that, I felt uncomfortable, as if I was intruding.†   (source)
  • Has there been an uptick in your rumination or intrusive thoughts?†   (source)
  • But then I felt the warm intrusion of her tongue and closed my eyes.†   (source)
  • When your animal has been roused, work in all bad faith to provoke a border intrusion.†   (source)
  • You never knew what intrusions, what thefts and gaffes anybody might commit.†   (source)
  • There was something hostile in the air, as if the trees resented their intrusion.†   (source)
  • They never intruded on my sadness or anger.†   (source)
  • Arya won't appreciate it if we intrude on her privacy,warned Saphira.†   (source)
  • He entered his territory without intruding into mine, only causing the boat to lurch to one side.†   (source)
  • Neither he nor Murtagh intruded on the silence.†   (source)
  • A practical question suddenly intruded in Eragon's muddled thoughts, driving away his embarrassment.†   (source)
  • I slowed, not wanting to intrude and not completely sure where the sound was coming from.†   (source)
  • "Dear ladies, we are sorry to intrude, but we have urgent news," the king informed us.†   (source)
  • Saphira intruded sharply in his thoughts.†   (source)
  • Abruptly through the whirling lights there was an intrusion.†   (source)
  • Hey, I didn't mean to intrude or whatever.†   (source)
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