obliviousness
Example Sentences
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The ostentatious coronation probably didn’t help a royal family already tarnished by Prince Harry, Prince Andrew, Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ and general obliviousness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2024
Identifying behaviors that make us recoil, like self-absorption and obliviousness, requires an ironic amount of self-reflection.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2023
Someday this chapter may be viewed as fascinating for its obliviousness and, from a public relations standpoint, its recklessness.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2023
Throughout the book, Guns skewers the obliviousness of the privileged.
From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2023
“It is the obliviousness of our children that saves us.”
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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