inobservant

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The artist evidently moves in constraint, and the accessories of these domestic scenes are simply generalized as if by a child: the result of an inobservant eye for such things.”

From Mary Wollstonecraft by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

That I may not be thought inobservant, forty-five yards a second is a pace which embarrasses sight.

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford

Can it be regarded in any way but as a piece of shameless hypocrisy, too glaring in its character to escape the notice even of the most inobservant individual.

From A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by Ferrall, S. A. (Simon Ansley)

Of all this she appeared by no means inobservant, nor did it seem to displease her.

From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

Our eyes and ears grow quickened to discern in the child before us processes similar to those we have read of as noted in the children,—processes of which we might otherwise have remained inobservant.

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William