unobserving

Example Sentences

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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

Filled with dreary imaginations, I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes, but my eyes were fixed and unobserving.

From Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Nor does he ever walk with an unobserving mind.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John

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)