A glut of screens greeted every visitor. (glut: surplus, oversupply, surfeit) Their ubiquity had made the spoken welcome almost inaudible. (ubiquity: omnipresence, pervasiveness, widespread presence) Ads seemed omnipresent, cameras ubiquitous. (omnipresent: ubiquitous, ever-present, all-pervading; ubiquitous: omnipresent, pervasive, widespread) Amid such congestion, a small gallery of wooden figures lay empty. (congestion: overcrowding, crowding, blockage) The director suspected apathy about older art. (apathy: indifference, unconcern, disinterest)
She asked an apparently apathetic visitor to help. (apathetic: indifferent, uninterested, unconcerned) He had wanted to see the gallery but had followed the brightest sign into the shop. An intrusive screen advertised reproductions; an obtrusive rack hid the actual door. (intrusive: meddlesome, interfering, invasive; obtrusive: intrusive, glaring, distracting) One could easily buy the figure and never see the original.
She moved the rack and turned the screen toward the exit. By noon the room was busy. Her old complaint about consumerism sounded hollow beside the misplaced sign. (consumerism: materialism, acquisitiveness) She kept the sign in her office as a souvenir of the day she unwittingly solved her own complaint. (unwittingly: unknowingly, inadvertently, unintentionally)