unseeing

Example Sentences

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Daniel, with his unseeing yet piercing gaze, turns out to be the conscience of this story, which doesn’t mean that he, his memories or his eventual testimony can be entirely trusted.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023

Hamm, the volatile, unseeing tyrant in Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” has ordered the creation of this cloth companion: one more creature to shrink from him in the dreary, age-worn room that is his realm.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

It poised, tensed, on the landscape of shelterless rocks, While there, close beside, the still unseeing fox Was only a hare’s-breath away.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2022

As Jupiter nears, its oily eye dominates the Earth’s sky, under which humanity cowers beneath its unseeing, eldritch gaze.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2019

Bigger half-rose in dread, then sat again, his eyes lifted, but unseeing.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright