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  • I feel uncomfortable, as if I were intruding, a voyeur who has slipped into McCandless's bedroom while he is momentarily away.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Somehow, it seemed like a way to hide from Teresa's intrusion into his mind.†   (source)
  • My words intruded slowly.†   (source)
  • I apologize for this intrusion, but you have a visitor.†   (source)
  • The royal family has their private rooms up there. and any sort of intrusion will not be tolerated.†   (source)
  • As I told you back in your dear godfather's kitchen, this branch of magic seals the mind against magical intrusion and influence.'†   (source)
  • If Laila spoke to them, Rasheed looked up with displeasure at the unwelcome intrusion.†   (source)
  • There was an expression of such dejection on her face that even to be in the room felt like intruding.†   (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)
  • We're getting intruded!†   (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)
  • And it turned out that Owen Meany didn't know a metamorphic schist from an igneous intrusion—unless the latter was granite.†   (source)
  • No, we can't call the Costellos now We can't intrude on them now."†   (source)
  • The room was cramped and even though there was an extra chair, I felt like I was intruding.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • She smiled in apology, as if she had been intruding.†   (source)
  • How dare he ask such intrusive, gossipy questions in the reading room and write her a creepy e-mail!†   (source)
  • Len felt he was intruding on this man's private rituals.†   (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)
  • Then as she looked, a living thing dared to intrude upon this untouched wilderness.†   (source)
  • "By what right do you savages intrude on our councils?" demanded Ser Kevan.†   (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)
  • Then the silence intruded even there and Jack turned where he sat.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't want to intrude, not for all the money in the world.†   (source)
  • Fingers of ivy were intruding through the broken panes.†   (source)
  • Such intrusions are so common that Border Patrol agents advise ranchers to leave water and food outside, beside their doors.†   (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)
  • "Sorry to intrude, but I'm here to take little Alexander to be weighed."†   (source)
  • It's the tongue: Once you think of the tongue it becomes an intrusion.†   (source)
  • Red squirrels scampered into the trees, chattering in protest at their intrusion.†   (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)
  • 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 closed my eyes, but the light still intruded, so I added a pillow over the top half of my face.†   (source)
  • Why would any high school football star waste his time answering the questions of a stranger and filling out intrusive forms?†   (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)
  • Aw, tell him who's got his bike," another voice intrudes, a sharp voice with the flint of New England in the words.†   (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)
  • I won't 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)
  • She closed her eyes against the sudden harsh intrusion.†   (source)
  • Never intrusive.†   (source)
  • Over the years she had developed a series of defenses to protect herself from the unwanted intrusions of the dead.†   (source)
  • She wanted to resist them, wanted to pry those intrusive voices out of her head.†   (source)
  • But then it occurred to me that if I were to do so, I might easily intrude upon her private grief.†   (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)
  • I was intruding on his grief, it was wrong.†   (source)
  • Those who intrude deserve madness.†   (source)
  • We buried her on a gusty, warm morning, Go and Nick leaning in to each other as I stood nearby, feeling intrusive.†   (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)
  • The cargo handlers left without intruding on the Great Hall.†   (source)
  • It was an intrusion on his reality.†   (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)
  • No intruding on his wife and children, I don't see there's any hurry to do something like that.†   (source)
  • We are very likely defenseless against intrusive external forces such as talking dogs, messages in bananas, and thunderstorms booked in advance.†   (source)
  • The woman speaks in a soft voice as if she suspects she is intruding.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • To her surprise, Salander found his uninvited intrusion acceptable—well, at least not unpleasant.†   (source)
  • Now and then a completely unrelated image intrudes momentarily.†   (source)
  • My intrusion here is because of the way Morgenstern uses parentheses.†   (source)
  • I shift my weight from one foot to the other—I feel like I'm intruding on a private moment.†   (source)
  • Moody's presence on the shoppihg trips was intrusive.†   (source)
  • Such a premise forbids the intrusion of the future, or too vivid an exhibition of need.†   (source)
  • He feared that something had happened to his men, yet hope kept intruding on that thought.†   (source)
  • "The only place you'll find a map of Blackcliff," a raspy voice intrudes, "is in the Commandant's head.†   (source)
  • On most days, the specter of Katie's past life didn't intrude, and they spent each day together in a state of relaxed and growing intimacy.†   (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)
  • David reached to straighten it, but pulled his hand back at the last minute, as if this would be too great an intrusion.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't want to intrude, he said because he was a sly one, you had to admit that.†   (source)
  • Hey, I didn't mean to intrude or whatever.†   (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," Kirsten told her.†   (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)
  • The first was sprinkled with words like "aggressively," "bold," "rude," "bother," "disturb," "intrude," and "infringe."†   (source)
  • I asked, forgetting that I risked rebuke by intruding on the conversation of my betters.†   (source)
  • This was no time to allow personal views to intrude on his thinking.†   (source)
  • That was perceived as scandalously intrusive.†   (source)
  • Pair an intrusive, usually ignorant, and often suspicious press corps with an intensely private trainer, and you have a volatile mix.†   (source)
  • They all represented unwelcome intrusions of foreign objects fired with violent velocity into his person.†   (source)
  • Whispering in each other's ear, so as not to intrude upon others still listening to Hillary, they held their heads close.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, life in Appleton, Wisconsin, seemed to lilt along almost in defiance of the Depression, or any other unwelcome intrusion.†   (source)
  • This was the second time she had intruded in the middle of a possible crime scene.†   (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)
  • 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 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)
  • I don't want to intrude.†   (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)
  • But could he stop the intrusion?†   (source)
  • Once more, she had the feeling that her mother's world was intruding on her.†   (source)
  • Instead, he seemed grateful to see her, worried about intruding on her time.†   (source)
  • "I don't want to intrude."†   (source)
  • They had a connection so special it sometimes made me feel I should turn away, that I was intruding.†   (source)
  • She was not smiling and seemed irritated by this intrusion.†   (source)
  • Any intrusion at this point couldn't be part of the American effort.†   (source)
  • It was as if men didn't really belong here and their intrusion, while necessary, was an afterthought of Fundidora's creation.†   (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)
  • Still, it seems, business was business and not to be intruded upon.†   (source)
  • Two shrill beeps suddenly intruded on the silence of the room.†   (source)
  • He is quite just to protest my intrusion.†   (source)
  • She had seen the way his eyes kept roving over Grace's body, siphoning agony from every intrusion the doctors had made.†   (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)
  • I hope I'm not intruding—your father was kind enough to-let me tag along after our pitch in Boston.†   (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)
  • 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 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)
  • Setting the tray on the table, he turned to pin her with one of his long, intrusive stares.†   (source)
  • It avoids what linguists call the intrusive "r," pronouncing saw as sawr or, as John Kennedy did, Cuba as Cuber.†   (source)
  • How dare you intrude here anyway?†   (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)
  • "Oh, no, we don't want to intrude," Corinne said.†   (source)
  • The music was uninspired, but it did not intrude on my thoughts and had a calming effect on me.†   (source)
  • I stayed where I was because I didn't want to intrude.†   (source)
  • Lady Denby's thoughts intrude on my own: This is what comes of not playing by the rules.†   (source)
  • You may find all that too intrusive, living with the past as present.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She was so intrusive, so sure of her welcome, so utterly lacking in self-consciousness.†   (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)
  • The people find excise taxes intrusive and dictatorial.†   (source)
  • Crenshinibon, with its subconscious intrusions, had coached Kessell well.†   (source)
  • Her experiences with that particular intrusive routine hadn't been pleasant.†   (source)
  • I do not wish to intrude upon your thoughts and schemes.†   (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)
  • This was excellent news, for it ensured that my study of the wolves would not be adversely affected by human intrusions.†   (source)
  • "We were, but she said she didn't want to intrude on our impromptu reunion."†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But another world's intrusion into this one.†   (source)
  • Thank God, I thought, no more annotated climaxes to intrude on my work and composure.†   (source)
  • The squirrels scurried up the pines, peered at him from the high branches, scolded at his intrusion.†   (source)
  • The Shadow world is then one's own, save for family intrusions, to do with as one would.†   (source)
  • Let no member of the family intrude in the guest chamber.†   (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)
  • … 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 of the train; and after there had been silence for a while, raised his head and looked up into the…†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He tried to keep his mind on flying, but something else kept intruding….†   (source)
  • He places a chair against the door, to prevent unwelcome intrusion.†   (source)
  • Jace," Clary said shortly, not liking the girl's intrusive curiosity.†   (source)
  • "Sorry to intrude," said Scrimgeour, as he limped to a halt before the table.†   (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)
  • He glanced at Aris, who looked sheepish, like he'd intruded on a private conversation.†   (source)
  • There was something hostile in the air, as if the trees resented their intrusion.†   (source)
  • His point of view began to intrude on the narrative.†   (source)
  • "Sorry to intrude, sir, but it's really unwise to stay out this late for so long.†   (source)
  • A man's voice intruded: "He liked music betimes, Jamis did.†   (source)
  • Neither the Liddells nor Leopold had noticed the intrusion.†   (source)
  • And no houseful of wide-awake vampires with their intrusively sensitive hearing….†   (source)
  • He always intrudes and imposes his own views upon the material he is studying.†   (source)
  • Neither he nor Hatsue had wanted the war to come—neither of them had wanted that intrusion.†   (source)
  • "Again, I'm sorry to intrude, but I need to speak to America.†   (source)
  • Teabing scowled at the ill-timed intrusion.†   (source)
  • You never knew what intrusions, what thefts and gaffes anybody might commit.†   (source)
  • I heard doors open, I saw hands intrusive and ugly in their threats.†   (source)
  • Reality, however, was quick to intrude on McCandless's reverie.†   (source)
  • Worse than that, I felt uncomfortable, as if I was intruding.†   (source)
  • Where are you with the 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)
  • In a word, but for intrusions her life would have been perfect.†   (source)
  • They never intruded on my sadness or anger.†   (source)
  • But if she recovers, would she forgive me for such an intrusion?†   (source)
  • Has there been an uptick in your rumination or intrusive thoughts?†   (source)
  • He entered his territory without intruding into mine, only causing the boat to lurch to one side.†   (source)
  • Saphira intruded sharply in his thoughts.†   (source)
  • I slowed, not wanting to intrude and not completely sure where the sound was coming from.†   (source)
  • Neither he nor Murtagh intruded on the silence.†   (source)
  • "Dear ladies, we are sorry to intrude, but we have urgent news," the king informed us.†   (source)
  • I steeled myself against his intrusive glances.†   (source)
  • It was not my wish to intrude upon your fellowship.†   (source)
  • Abruptly through the whirling lights there was an intrusion.†   (source)
  • And once in a while, when memory intrudes, I still enjoy a good, deep shave.†   (source)
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