Word: obstructive
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...Renoir quotes like "the best exercise for a woman is to kneel down and scrub the floor" without bothering to uncover the profound and across-the-board fearful fanaticism of which that quote is only one facet. Berger effectively warns us not to let our methodologies for "seeing" obstruct our sight...
...this play was basic and functional. The on-stage house increased the amusing effect of the pantomime entre-acts, but the set was not so massive as to obstruct the movement of the actors...
...forged an opening to Syria more than nine months before the invasion of Kuwait. The quiet initiative began with a letter from President Bush delivered to Assad by special envoy Vernon Walters in 1989. The Administration then reached an understanding with the Syrians that Damascus would not obstruct U.S.-sponsored peace talks between Israeli officials and Palestinians. In return, Walters pledged that Washington would tolerate Assad's strengthening of his influence over Lebanon and would urge the Israelis to acquiesce in Syria's control as well. As a result, says a U.S. official, the task of persuading Syria to join...
...general growled his warning over the telephone. As elite Soviet paratroopers were ordered into the Baltic republics early last week, Fyodor Kuzmin, the regional commander, rang up the presidents of secessionist Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with a stony message. If your people obstruct the mission to round up draft dodgers, he said, the troops will shoot. Four days later, in an atmosphere of mounting confrontation, General Kuzmin kept his word...
...Smith's telling, Paley consistently inflated his own achievements and minimized the contributions of others. A pioneer in television? The CBS chief actually tried to obstruct the new medium's development, fearing it would cut into his radio profits. Champion of broadcasting's most respected news organization? Paley acquiesced to blacklisting in the 1950s and canceled Edward R. Murrow's See It Now because he feared it was too nettlesome to the Eisenhower Administration. As a decision maker, Paley was cautious and vacillating; underlings snickered over his frequent "540-degree turns." Some of his most decisive moves -- like dumping Walter...