unobserving

Example Sentences

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What is even more remarkable, all their work is built in the rigorously modern style still referred to as "crackpot" by unobserving standpatters.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, in a way, the most remarkable Hanukkah this year took place in Israel, where, along with the traditional gaiety, it brought a truce in a strange, bitter struggle between the orthodox and the unobserving.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ned frowned and muttered something that might have checked their visitor's reply, had he noticed the laird's displeasure, but for the moment he seemed to have become very unobserving.

From Simon by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)

During the early periods of Jackson's administration, Mr. Adams, though in retirement, was neither unobserving nor silent concerning its proceedings.

From Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. by Quincy, Josiah

In the other class, children seem to be dull in sense, unobserving, but dreamy, as if they had an over-mastering presentiment of that connection of things which binds them into wholes.

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)