obliviousness

Example Sentences

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Pigossi’s self-obsessed novelist, however, is perfectly pitched in his all-around obliviousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

“That reflects Herod’s obliviousness to the richness of nature. For me, he is one of these people who violate not only other people but the earth itself.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2024

Someday this chapter may be viewed as fascinating for its obliviousness and, from a public relations standpoint, its recklessness.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2023

By the time Lane becomes aware of Steph’s obliviousness and fills her in, they are already enmeshed; when they finally got together, fireworks boomed in the night sky.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022

“It is the obliviousness of our children that saves us.”

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr