unobserving

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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

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

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)

Sometimes, however, the tears which the earth thus sheds, this crystal thread, scorned by the unobserving passer-by, is arrested in its timid course by some trifling obstacle—a rising path, a fallen branch or tree.

From Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Jesse, William

By what might have seemed to the unobserving a happy coincidence, Amiel, strolling from his house to the beach with his after- dinner pipe, was hailed by Dorothea from the summerhouse.

From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various