Rich Eisen

I don't want to find out what celebrity X, who is a Browns fan, thinks of the zone blitz scheme. I don't think that's the sort of thing that I would even ask many people when they come on the show; it's very obtuse, even if they are an expert on football.

American Journalist

John Podhoretz

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.

American Writer

Patrick Stump

As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

American Musician

James Dyson

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.

British Designer

Shea Hembrey

I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric.

American Artist

Nicholas Haslam

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

English Designer

Vikramaditya Motwane

Of course, you have to think of the audience. You cannot make an obtuse film that only appeals to a small niche section of the audience.

Indian Director

Ben Dolnick

Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.

Jewel

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

Ralphie May

I'm honest, at the end of the day - I'm obese, but I'm not obtuse.

American Comedian

Used specifically in mathematics to describe angles greater than 90 degrees.

Geometry Term

Usually looks wider than a right angle when drawn or seen.

Visually Identifiable

This definition is often used when someone doesn't understand something obvious.

Perception

Can imply someone is deliberately playing dumb or avoiding the subject.

Pejorative Sense

It's not used in a clinical or medical context to describe mental capabilities.

Non-medical

Refers to actual physical objects that lack a sharp edge or point.

Literal Sharpness

Often used to indicate that something is less likely to cause injury.

Safety Implication

 This is called a cycle valve tube. When you pump in air in a bicycle, you use a bit of this. And some of these models -- so you take a bit of this cycle valve tube, you can put two matchsticks inside this, and you make a flexible joint. It's a joint of tubes. You start by teaching angles -- an acute angle, a right angle, an obtuse angle, a straight angle.

Turning trash into toys...

 Every time you make a cut that reaches an edge, it either makes an acute and an obtuse angle, or two right angles. That makes it seems like you’re doomed to keep creating obtuse angles. But as with so many of life’s problems, we can look to pizza for inspiration.

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 it's the best thing that's happened to the UN in our lifetime it might even change the culture of that obtuse intractable impenetrable male fortress

Obtuse