All 4 Uses of
obtuse
in
The Magic Mountain
- With a stubborn, obtuse look on her face, she uttered the grotesque term "Blue Henry" without the least hesitancy, and Hans Castorp felt an urge both to laugh and to shudder as she said it.†
Chpt 3.7
- Obtuse Frau Stohr went on and on in this way with ghastly thoroughness until the brief, if ample meal was over.†
Chpt 4.10 *
- Nor is obtuseness necessarily harmless.†
Chpt 6.8
- It was a faith like any other, only worse and more obtuse than all the rest; and the word "science" itself was the expression of the most stupid sort of realism, which did not blush at taking at face value the dubious reflections that objects left on the human mind and seeing them as the basis for the most dismal and vapid dogma anyone ever foisted on humanity.†
Chpt 7.9
Definition:
slow to learn or understand