This year, as every year, the struggle against disease was a grab bag of good and bad--vision and shortsightedness, courage and obtuseness, scientific masterstrokes and experiments .
But Bush underestimated the depth of Sununu's ethical obtuseness and his zeal at finding a way around the rules.
But that obtuseness seems--finally and mercifully--to be changing.
Richard Land in New York Times The mayor's position on abortion couldn't be more repugnant to pro-liferssaid Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. "It shows a moral obtuseness...
St Ignatius of Loyola in America Magazine (subscription) St. Ignatius Loyola describes it as "an obtuseness of soul, turmoil within it, an impulsive motion toward low and earthly things, or a disquiet from various agitations and temptations."
Toni Morrison in Philadelphia Inquirer I have to say I have my own list of objections that I can peruse at my leisure, not least of which is an almost comic obtuseness regarding women and race . . . which I have to say even he admits to,Morrison said as she presented him the...