There would have been something almost pathetic in his carefully preserved dignity had it not been so obtrusively out of place; and when they stood watching him for a moment or two, Gordon expressed Nasmyth's thoughts.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
They came back presently with their purchase, a somewhat obtrusively ornate piece of jewelry, which Annette pronounced semi-barbarous; being, she said, a compromise between her own severely classical taste and that of Sterling, which latter, she assured her father, was entirely savage.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham
He cared for Trenchard like a child, but never obtrusively.
"The Dark Forest"
Hugh Walpole