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"Blatancy" Quotes from Famous Books

... American acquaintances would deem it as unique a literary specimen as they would. At the same time I may remind my American readers that the scutcheon of American journalism is not so bright as it might be while blots of this kind occur on it, and that it is the blatancy of Americans of this type that tends to give currency to the distorted opinion of Uncle Sam that prevails so widely ...

— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead

... beautiful, gentle, large-eyed girl ... wholly feminine ... soft-voiced ... as a reaction from the nagging of his wife, from her blatancy and utter lack of sympathy with any of his projects, he insensibly drifted into a relationship closer and closer, with this girl ... they used to take long walks into the pines together ... and be observed coming back slowly out of the sunset ... hand in hand ... to drop each other's hands, ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... works of the great composers to show how the horns and trumpets have lost in expressive power by having adopted the chromatic scale of other instruments. Wagner's use of the brass generally is most skilful; he is especially happy in avoiding the blatancy and coarseness which soils the scores of some composers. Neither trumpets nor drums are much used continuously in the score of Tristan. The former are often employed in the lower part of their scale and only for particular effects. ...

— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight

Words linked to "Blatancy" : noticeableness, odiousness, obviousness, noticeability, offensiveness, distastefulness, blatant, patency