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He simply stopped ordering his people about so obstreperously.

It's what allows her to hint at shenanigans rather than announce them obstreperously.

It was hopeless; Adams was too obstreperously real to be idealized.

She fervently wished there was time to get gloriously, obstreperously drunk.

The dogs bounded about her, obstreperously wagging their tails.

Greenpeace, meanwhile, has been driving its boats obstreperously into the path of a test of a missile defense system.

They turned right again, continuing their conversation, the first civilian now upbraiding his white-coated companion, but not obstreperously.

It represents the ultimate in self-governance, with administrators drawn from the ranks and all the players actively, sometimes obstreperously, involved.

Obstreperously, the metal began to flex.

European allies are now serious economic rivals, and they are happy to conceal their absolute military dependence with obstreperously independent foreign policies.

It harks back to his more obstreperously zany plays like "Reckless," recently revived on Broadway.

George Baker remembered Passmore's Sergeant of Police as being "obstreperously funny."

Obstreperously so, Killashandra thought, for they would whisper among themselves, then burst into laughter as they looked with mock surreptitiousness at silent diners.

He was catching fire from the flame he was partly simulating, and at tea-time he was obstreperously merry.

Lucy in her stage box laughed so obstreperously that Caroline Hequet silenced her with a tap of her fan.

Upon getting alongside, the chief evinced symptoms of extreme surprise and delight, clapping his hands, slapping his thighs and breast, and laughing obstreperously.

Three of the women, irresistibly hard-voiced, wire-haired and elbowing obstreperously into the thick of things, are holdovers from Ms. Bausch's heavily ironic years.

If these performers were making forays into white vaudeville, they were generally - though not invariably - expected to highlight their more obstreperously "Negroid" mannerisms and skills.

It is certainly unfair to judge such an obstreperously thorny and post-modern performance as "The Adventures of Lucky Pierre" by old-school realist standards.

The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.

It was a raw, violent, guzzling saturnalia that spilled obstreperously through the woods to the officers' club and spread up into the hills toward the hospital and the antiaircraft-gun emplacements.

But it was sullied by a wasabi soy sauce dotted with black sesame seeds that was so obstreperously sharp it overwhelmed the wonderful flavor and texture of the tuna slices.

But I wonder what Roth, who died in 1998, a proud, obstreperously independent man, someone allergic to all kinds of artistic pigeonholes, would have thought about his work being enlisted in such a tightly argued exhibition.

And after such talk we would fall upon great pauses of emotional dreaming, and if by chance we passed a girl in a governess cart, or some farmer's daughter walking to the station, we became alertly silent or obstreperously indifferent to her.

More obstreperously in the new spirit are the lighter-hearted offerings: a farce that finds two men jostling under a married woman's bed; a game show that poses questions like, "What should a manager do to work less and less and live better and better?"