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

Then she looked at Chase and winked, with a meaning nod at the unobserving Deppingham.

From The Man from Brodney's by McCutcheon, George Barr

Once Harvey nearly sat down when an unobserving hand jerked a strip of carpet from under his feet.

From What's-His-Name by Fisher, Harrison

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