obliviousness
Example Sentences
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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
Rant to those few whose reckless obliviousness will never be curbed by any conditions.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2023
And in one of the film’s slyer jokes, the hip-hop song “White Boy Summer” by their son Chet Hanks is used to personify a certain kind of clueless obliviousness in others.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2022
“It is the obliviousness of our children that saves us.”
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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