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Shô (or: sô), meaning “sound,” is the breath of Dainichi, the vibrations of the five material elements in their mutually non-obstructively colliding interplay that resonate sounds through the air.

Laughter 2009

One hopes that they'll use their presence constructively, not obstructively.

Jonathan Handel: SAG National Executive Director Firing -- How it Went Down 2009

The only way Democrats could have any power would be by acting as obstreperously and obstructively as possible, to prevent more damage, by using their investigative power in the House to lay out the crimes of this administration as clearly as possible.

Election Postmortem: What's Next? 2006

Their mental disposition was often obstructively critical and insubordinate.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

By defensively and obstructively making the process more difficult, the government had landed up pointing the finger back at itself.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 1996

After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1979

We must lay hold upon and set to work for a higher civilization the motives and purposes that in the past have worked obstructively, and now destructively.

The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History G.E. Partridge

Never was cart put more obstructively before horse than when

Art Clive Bell 1922

And, because nothing stands more obstructively between the public and the grand æsthetic ecstasies than the habit of feeling a false emotion for a pseudo-work-of-art, he must be as remorseless in exposing shams as a good schoolmaster would be in exposing charlatans and short-cuts to knowledge.

Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922