unaroused

Example Sentences

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As a member of the avant-garde who is capable of perceiving the conspiracy before it is fully obvious to an as yet unaroused public, the paranoid is a militant leader.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2019

No information has been passed and your nervous system is completely unaroused and uninformed.

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2015

But there are sloughs of ignorance so deep That sect and rubric seem to fade away, Souls unaroused as yet from barbarous sleep That have not glimpsed the prospect of the day.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 by Various

He glanced over to be sure that she escaped these, and saw her sharply revealed in the sudden light, unconscious of it, unaroused by the crackling explosion.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon

Frozen, cruel, implacable, impervious, cut to an identical pattern, they hurried on their ways like statues brought by some miracles to motion, while soul and feeling lay unaroused in the reluctant marble.

From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.