How To Use Oblivious In A Sentence

Oblivious, Sam paused to quickly scan the print-outs and spiky, almost illegible handwritten notes strewn around the room.
We believe he, either, is turning his Nelson's eye to the scientific reports, or, is plain oblivious of Peter Bergen's cogent and coherent articulation of the demerits of EITs as image destroyers for the US. Cheney wrong on interrogation inquiry facts, Obama official says
Mr Copley, robed in cassock and billowing surplice, was impatiently pacing the back lawn seeming oblivious to their presence.
She seemed oblivious, so I hit my hooter to get her attention.
Oblivious, the party bosses clung on, negotiating pacts and deals, blocking any new ideas or initiatives.

I was not young enough to be oblivious to what was going on and not old enough to know what to do about it.
He's now oblivious to his workmates' leg-pulling and says: ‘I wouldn't be without my three-wheeler even though I've never been above 60 mph because it shakes too much.’
The curly haired, dark-skinned child who stared up at him with “hero-worship” adoration was oblivious to the fact that his white shirt was pulled halfway out of the waist of his pants or that his clip-on bow-tie was askew. Who Said It Would Be Easy
The fact that an offender may remain oblivious to that forgiveness is absolutely beside the point. Scott Cairns: The Christian and the Community: A Relationship in God's Image
Christ, did ye see 'em scutter like wee mousies wi 'a cat on their tails?" said one patient to another, seemingly oblivious of the nasty powder burn that had singed his left arm from knuckles to shoulder. Dragonfly in Amber
Colin Spencer still stood by the desk no one signed in at; and he still smiled and nodded his hellos and goodbyes to every oblivious face that passed him by as though he was host to this year's biggest A-list birthday bash.
she remained sublimely oblivious to the possible havoc she might have caused
Ray was oblivious to my cunning and sly plan, and I kept it that way.
Because they work on simple-minded theories and are totally oblivious of facts.
He seems oblivious that he is ignoring their guest and offending an upset wife who has done her best to provide genuine hospitality. Christianity Today
The regulatory rules were also sometimes oblivious to big economic changes and thus in effect rendered obsolete by new technologies like computerization or by persistent disorders like inflation.
After Hild had set off, plainly loath to leave Tera—though she seemed oblivious to his attraction—the remaining five had eaten as much unripened fruit as they could tolerate, then taken places around the fire to pass out. Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
The same smirking, self-delighted narcissist will remain beamingly oblivious to how much we, Democrats everywhere, and informed men and women of good will around the globe loathe him and the ground he walks on. Election Central Morning Roundup
As Brandon bustled cheerfully around the kitchen, he seemed totally oblivious. KISS OF THE BEES
I know that the economy of rural Ireland operates in a hermetically sealed way, oblivious to the world of Dublin and its superannuated airheads.
Thousands of TV commercials go on their merry way, oblivious to dire circumstances outside the calculus of huckstering.
In any case, I wound up spending two weeks in a psychiatric clinic, drugged into oblivious stupefaction, until I checked myself out.
Cabinets filled the corners and the ceiling was at a slant, it was obvious to the oblivious that this room was underneath a staircase.
She lay motionless where she was, oblivious to pain.
Ray is instantly smitten with the pretty and squeaky-clean Wendy, pursuing her with an undisguised lust, oblivious to the feelings of her boring husband.
You can't afford to be so oblivious, she'd scold, or you're liable to waltz right into trouble.
But, unfortunately, some parents seem to be oblivious to this perception and abandon such children to their fate.
He is oblivious of the smoke billowing from one of the towers behind him, white against a hazy blue sky. Times, Sunday Times
The audience cheered and whistled, but the happy couple was oblivious.
Flash forward two decades and the documentary section had become a sleepy backwater, with an antediluvian selection committee seemingly oblivious to new currents in documentary film.
But seeing my students and other young people narcotized with iPads and cell phones in a state in which they are oblivious to the human beings around them, makes me realize how lonely they are, trying to find a way in texting and phoning to substitute remote communication for intimacy. Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Japan and Teaching for the Future
Meila was asleep and unconscious, oblivious to the days that had already happened.
Everyone seems oblivious to the rain falling from a worryingly thunderous sky, a mere inconvenience to this hardy bunch.
He was reading a newspaper, apparently oblivious to the contribution he was making to the traffic chaos.
I'm bored out of my skull and I'm walking around in a bit of an oblivious haze.
The all seemed shocked by her destroying her property and doing it so very thoroughly, that they seemed positively oblivious to her nakedness.
An impression came to him, then, of Lily laying fast asleep, limned in moonlight, safe and oblivious.
Dozens of demoiselles hovered, waiting for the combfish to remove their parasites while the goatfish below seemed oblivious to the free grooming services available.
A small school of dogtooth tuna swam 10 meters below him, oblivious to the danger. White Death
You're oblivious to the piggery of it.
oblivious of the mounting pressures for political reform
Oblivious to the signs and portents that he's making a very big mistake, he takes the job.
For two weeks the shuttle had been looping the globe to the obliviousness of the vast majority of the world's population, which was largely preoccupied with the fate of Iraq.
You eventually become oblivious to the noise.
He tossed her a smile and strode top 8qg How ironic that in her bid for ersonal creative freewqd Laura, oblivious to the receptionist's flustered dom, she'd wound up chained to the most domineering, gratitude. autocratic, stubborn man on earth. Too Many Bosses
In essence, and oblivious to the purists, the economics simply don't stack up.
He was reading a newspaper, apparently oblivious to the contribution he was making to the traffic chaos.
When she moved, her hair swished with her movements in a way that tantalized any man in her radius, though she was oblivious to all of the attention she got.
She was with a man who seemed as oblivious to public decency as she was, kissing and fondling her as they walked.
Rocky smiled with a mouthful of food and gave a thumbs up, oblivious to his mother, who was frowning across the table.
Sharp, clever and prickly, Gwendolen reads the days away, oblivious to dirt and decay.
He seemed oblivious to the fact that he had hurt her.
I'm hanging beneath the boat doing a safety stop, eyes fixed on my dive computer, oblivious to the fact that, behind me, a huge albino sperm whale is flossing its teeth on the anchor line.
Many have fought for a concert hall to benefit nostalgic Europhiles oblivious to the boringness of classical music.
She was oblivious to the gaunt diminutive figure that stared back at her; just over five feet.
While hiking in Shenandoah National Park recently I was struck not by the number of families in an old-growth hemlock grove called the Limberlost, but by their obliviousness to the dead and dying trees around them.
On Kite Hill, children flitter about like butterflies while their parents sit patiently under perfectly blue skies, pleasantly oblivious to the shouts of joy and rings of laughter. CLOUD DANCING • by J. Thomas Arant
Honestly, she is so oblivious to subtle byplay.
Oblivious to his hectic surroundings, the man carried on with his lonely saunter until he reached an uncharacteristically quiet corner of the courtyard void of any activity.
The other drivers remain unseeing and oblivious, probably even to the moon. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
"A reiteration of the obvious is never wasted on the oblivious," the author finishes up.
I think his ignorance and obliviousness for considering other possibilities is his weakness here. Think Progress » Congress Explicitly Said War Resolution Did Not Expand Executive Power
Both the countries are unmindful of the consequences of a war, oblivious of a conventional war turning into a nuclear one as both the Third World poverty-stricken nations possess the demonic nuclear weapons.
He was thought to have wandered off, oblivious to the fuss he had caused. Times, Sunday Times
We start of with a high degree of passion, probably still low on skills and oblivious of our special talents…..with time we discover ourselves and hone our skills….we reach a certain level of maturity when the market starts recongnising us. Key to Success: Talent + Passion + Market | Motivational Humor from the Motivational Smart Ass!
Oblivious of all this, the westering sun bathes the ocean and grassy hillsides in a balmy, golden light.
Some people are having a hard time dealing with its intimations of bad luck; the magpie is oblivious, its wings fully flung as if about to leap into flight, its beak dark and glittery, unaware it’s an omen of any kind. September « 2006 « Squares of Wheat
The stilted atmosphere would strike outsiders as disconcertingly weird, but these women are oblivious to the awkwardness.
*pulls hunnert dollar towel outta londry baskit and puts it in warshing mashine, oblivious to GP-sized lump in towel* U left copier runnin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Suddenly oblivious to my presence, she dropped her purse on my desk, pulled out a flask and a small jar of olives and made herself another strong one.
Jonas, watching Susan to see whether she got home with the honey unspilt, was oblivious to the half of the world that was behind his back; but when he turned about and took up the dish of batter, intending to pour out a griddleful of pancakes, he saw her coming. The Wrong Woman
He seemed oblivious to the reception this innocuous comment was about to receive.
Claiming to be oblivious to the obvious is a big part of social status striving these days. Matthew Yglesias » Profiling Lite
However, being sort of oblivious to everything less masculine than fantasy football and gatling guns, I misread the second sentence to mean that she was talking about “this curse of ours” being something like being a vampire. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Becca’s Review Forum
Then I went back to the clearing, where Solastian was absently poking at the fire and completely oblivious to everything else.
Because they work on simple-minded theories and are totally oblivious of facts.
I spoke to one Scottish applicant who appeared to be woefully oblivious to what the job actually entailed. Times, Sunday Times
He'd sat through the next act oblivious to the music, completely absorbed in the private drama that had unfolded in his immediate ambit. THE LAST TEMPTATION
In short, oil has shriveled the promise and stained the soul of an entire country, empowering autocrats who disdain human rights and are oblivious to the misery of its people. Richard North Patterson discusses Eclipse
Oblivious to cues, devoid of gaydar, I shuffle through my days, despondently convinced that no one could possibly find me attractive.
Not surprisingly, fantasizers become deeply absorbed in stories, movies and drama, often becoming oblivious to real-world stimuli.
They emerged unhurried and seemingly oblivious to the potentially lethal situation they had been in. Times, Sunday Times
I watch as they sit together, deep in conversation, oblivious to the yelps and scuffles and barks taking place around their feet.
Once outside, she stood uncertainly for a moment, oblivious to the curious glances of passers-by.
One could live and work in the capital and be practically oblivious to the horrors of the war and daily terror that many Colombian women face and shared with me.
Then, with chilled air pouring in down the back of my neck, you flop into your seat, oblivious.
He is largely oblivious to the fact that he has caused her decline, and even excuses himself from her deathbed to have a final meeting with his mistress at the quayside.
She's very sweet, with conventional dreams for her future, and pretty oblivious to how much bleakness there is around her. Thieves unlike them
I spoke to one Scottish applicant who appeared to be woefully oblivious to what the job actually entailed. Times, Sunday Times
Shokrian includes a number of these bulletins at crucial points within the diegesis, although his characters remain virtually oblivious to them.
She burst into tears, incredulous, a reaction to which Allen seemed oblivious.
The nematodes, the leaves, and the minnows go about their business quite oblivious to my complicated world.
Therese curtsied, oblivious to Hannah's searching gaze, and hurried to the kitchen, hastily retying her apron, and adjusting her hair.
Imagine a room full of oblivious dolts, and I'm taking advantage of them for personal gain.
The shelled reptile's measured, oblivious promenade is representative of the world in which we are being immersed.
A twenty-year-old dancer manque did isometrics on his towel, pretending to be oblivious to the stares he attracted.
He is open and guileless; physically close to Jonathan, sexually attracted to Clare and yet oblivious to the damaging impact he might have on them.
Oblivious to carb counts, I ended up following the main proscription of popular low-carb diets: no refined carbohydrate foods.
The characters remained self-absorbed, oblivious to conventional morality or the pieties of political correctness.
He appears oblivious to the person he is addressing and rudely reprimands those who interrupt his rants.
When he is onscreen, your eye stays with him, oblivious to the mise en scene.
When it comes to love, God is the great prodigal - extravagant, a spendthrift, and oblivious to cost.
Oddly, Disher appears to be oblivious to the fact that she and her classmates were merely the first female midshipmen, not the first Navy women by far.
In London, oblivious of what was to happen, Katrina awoke slowly. FINAL RESORT
While everyone else engages in some form of inward or outward dialogue, they stare abstractedly into space, oblivious to their surroundings.
Congress was seemingly oblivious to these events.
She quietly reads a book, oblivious to the great pockmarks of peeling paint and disintegrating plaster of the moldy wall behind her.
She found her in the center of the masses, grooving to the music, almost oblivious to everything around her.
She shivered as the helicopter flew them towards the airport, once more totally oblivious of her surroundings.
Quite oblivious to their presence was a pair of coyotes cuddled close together on the sand next to the cliff.
He is oblivious of the smoke billowing from one of the towers behind him, white against a hazy blue sky. Times, Sunday Times
In this view, Americans' obliviousness ended with an outbreak of nostalgia at the turn of the century, fanned by general concern over the heedless pace of industrial society.
Sharron Angle sank to new lows of obliviousness when she told a classroom of Hispanic kids in Las Vegas: "Some of you look a little more Asian to me.
She seemed almost oblivious to the pain that she had just caused the young slave girl.
Scorsese's dark vision of human alienation in an urban wasteland captures the seaminess of pre-Giuliani Manhattan, and DeNiro's career-making performance as Bickle is truly haunting, recalling those real-life outcasts who have used violent crime to tell an oblivious world: "I was here!". John Farr: The Best Scorsese Movies by Farr
The pilot seemed oblivious to my foot smacking him in the back of the head, so I sat back and allowed myself to be inducted into this elite organisation.
A minute later they've louped a fence and are darting through some trees and up a hill, oblivious to a nervous-looking group of sheep.
Surprisingly, though, many people remain oblivious of the dangers from rivers and the sea. Times, Sunday Times
We've been so desensitized by the increasing annoyingness of the Internet that we've grown completely oblivious to how absolutely obnoxious Internet advertising has become.
So here he sat, oblivious to the cold seeping slowly into his bones, unmoving, unblinking, waiting for one confirmatory glimpse. THE ONLY GAME
The characters remained self-absorbed, oblivious to conventional morality or the pieties of political correctness.
The newborn lambs gambolling in the fields are oblivious to the heartache which engulfed Town End farm two years ago, yet they symbolise the fresh optimism of farmer Chris.
Had the joy of listening to old men 'gurn' and complain at a local sports event, seemingly oblivious to the fact they aren't at home in front of the TV or watching the multimillionaires. Irish Blogs
A turtle lazily munched on the coral, oblivious and uncaring of my presence, or the flashes emanating from my camera.
• More evidence that the government remains oblivious to the consequences of belt-tightening. Hugh Muir's diary
Unusually, harking back to The Burns And Allen Show the key characters in Love & War directly addressed comments to the camera while others around them were oblivious to ‘the fourth wall’.
The former had conquered her problems, the latter was oblivious of hers.
I have known rocks become oblivious to both the old type of scarecrow and its modern equivalent, the automatic banger.
Shop girls tend just to look pained and bemused when you ask if there are any trousers in stock that rise a bit higher, since they're oblivious to the exigencies of approaching middle age and the effects of gravity on untoned flesh.
His own father, blithe gadabout Edward VII 1901-1910 was solely a horse racing buff who was oblivious to his subjects becoming, in his lifetime, suddenly and overwhelmingly enamoured with ball games. Royalty has finally become wedded to the national sporting obsession | Frank Keating
Our council seem impervious to criticism and oblivious to basic common sense.
Jenkins, too, seems to spend so much time in the nave of the church that he is often oblivious to what is happening in the apse.
But the crowds lining the pavements of the city centre seemed oblivious to the problems which had led up to the day.
His eyes were closed and he was completely oblivious to what was happening around him.
The stove warms the tent up and we become drowsy, and oblivious to the storm outside.
Each is rendered in a garish expressionist style at odds with the subject matter, as if the artist were completely oblivious to the drama at hand.
My best friend's oblivious to everything, mooning over some guy.
For three grueling days the young boy had remained oblivious to his surrounding world, unresponsive and indifferent to anything and anyone around him.
This is also a favourite hang out for the local underage kids to smoke cigarettes out of the view of oblivious parents.
Based on Protocol 4.1, a high-performance Protocol 5.1 is put forwarded, with the name Oblivious Transfer Based Scalar Product Protocol.
Marcopolo the Ramrod's letter is easily an open insult to the 70% of Americans who make less than 25K/year, but beyond that, it beautifully exposes an appalling obliviousness to the state of our country by certain advantaged members of society, as well as an absolute disregard for those who do not share their tax bracket. Edward Murray: The Poor Top Two Percent
Burke was asleep, sprawled obliviously against the window.
Some parts of the world remain satisfyingly oblivious to all this palaver, however, as this true tale from a Scottish hostelry so splendidly proves.
Into the restored elegance of Yankee Stadium stepped Jones, oblivious to it all.
This magnificent beast was obviously oblivious to our presence.
The tall, thin volleyball player trotted quickly up the steps toward another endless hallway of oblivious dark.
A moderate fire in the grate is the only mode of heating, and they seem quite oblivious to the danger of throwing a door open into a cold hall at one's back, while the servants pass in and out with the various courses at dinner. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
It was the lady of the house, standing at the window, towelling herself down after a bath, completely oblivious to the testosterone fuelled turmoil she was about to cause down below.
One may follow Woman Decorative in the Orient on vase, fan, screen and kakemono; as she struts in the stiff manner of Egyptian bas reliefs, across walls of ancient ruins, or sits in angular serenity, gazing into the future through the narrow slits of Egyptian eyes, oblivious of time; woman, beautiful in the European sense, and decorative to the superlative degree, on Greek vase and sculptured wall. Woman as Decoration
A World Restored is instead valuable as a metaphor for what can be seen some 150 years later: the great figures of world power at the summit equally oblivious to the changes circling around them while they try to construct a spurious top-down “stability”—just as the most changeful age in history crashes in. Magic and Mayhem
The young girl appeared oblivious to what he was up to; Martin guessed she did this sort of thing quite often.
Maybe I'm regularly subjected to it whilst I wind my merry oblivious way up and down the country.
One after another, he charged up the stone steps, oblivious to any claustrophobia from the narrow passage.
I told him who I was, _who I knew_, including Mickey Cohen, which _he_ was oblivious to. White Jazz
The less fortunate sleep in shadowy doorways, oblivious to noise through the mechanics of sniffed thinner. A Haven of Peace
Yet he seems oblivious to the fact that he is out of his element in the vulgar, plebeian world of the Victorian stage.
Men like him spent their working lives solving the challenges of waste disposal - but the public at large were oblivious to their efforts. Times, Sunday Times
Children, dressed in threadbare clothes and their arms laden with gifts, seemed oblivious to the steady patter of rain and surprised at their good fortune.
As Jeremy's father began to cry at the sight of the burning boy on the screen, Benjy, oblivious to the drama going on behind him, sang the chorus to a popular Blue Oyster Cult tune he had heard via his older brother: Oh no, they say he's got to go! I am Falun Gong - excerpt II (Jeremy)
Many people, including the educated, are unmindful of or oblivious to the disturbance they cause to others while speaking over their cellphones.
There will be a backlash of which he appears to be oblivious. The Sun
In fact, thought Roskill, he looked rather like a solitary, oversized waxwork which had been stolen from Madame Tussaud's and then abandoned to become a pedestrian obstacle: he stood unmoving, engrossed in a dull-looking, stiff-covered mag; azine, oblivious of the passers-by who eddied round him and of the traffic which accelerated past his nose. The Alamut Ambush
It is not that he shuns the spotlight, he seems oblivious to it. Times, Sunday Times
Greg Kinnear does a convincing job as the doomed star, deftly revealing a man vapidly oblivious to the harm he caused himself and others.
Our God is not a remote being who sits enthroned on some ethereal height, absorbed in the contemplation of his own perfection, oblivious to this grubby realm in which we live.
oblivious to the risks she ran
While much of the time Rio responds realistically if you use one of the proper commands, other times she can be idiotically oblivious.
And to the hapless cyclist immersed in the world of buzzbuzzblahblahblah, the approach of a cuntish Land Rover or Vauxhall Corsa being driven in a cuntish manner by an oblivious, mouth-breathing motorist is a deadly peril. Why the iPod Will Never Catch On « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
The tree is also good climbing material for the cat, who seems oblivious to the prickly foliage and spends hours at the top precariously lunging at flies and watching the birds who sit just out of reach on the telegraph wires.
Are commuters with glazed expressions dashing hither and thither oblivious to all around them?
The bankside mosses and liverworts, though, seemed oblivious, carrying on regardless. Times, Sunday Times
Releasing a fierce battle cry, I pounded flailing fist after flailing fist onto him, oblivious to his insouciance and lack of flinching.
The saddest aspect of this whole inglorious dilemma is that public opinion is almost completely oblivious of the hidden cost that must be paid to comfort the farmers' pride.
She goes out barelegged, oblivious of the bitter weather, and at times wears a washed leather trench coat or a battered leather jacket, too.
These organisations are almost certainly oblivious to the compromised situation in which they find themselves. Times, Sunday Times
Still, many of us remain oblivious to the calamity. Michealene Cristini Risley: Let's Face It: We've Hit the Iceberg
Absorbed in her work, she was totally oblivious of her surroundings.
She seems oblivious to what she is doing to herself-and she's far too narcistic and self-centered to let that happen under normal circumstances. Clinton: Democratic nomination process needs to change
The kids go and get help from the parents who stand their oblivious to the kid in immense amount of pain. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Watch this kid nail the dunk!
Oblivious to the signs and portents that he's making a very big mistake, he takes the job.
“Poet-baiting” became a popular pastime in Dundee, but McGonagall seemed oblivious to the general opinion of his poems, even when his audience were pelting him with eggs and vegetables. May « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
The 16-year-old Canadian turned a relatively oblivious crowd into exuberant fans with his incredible stage show.
These organisations are almost certainly oblivious to the compromised situation in which they find themselves. Times, Sunday Times
If by some amazing circumstances you were completely oblivious to the fact that international superstars have overrun our city for the past two weeks, you probably missed out on some great shows.
The administration seems somewhat oblivious to the resultant dangers.
The trio set up their pitch on market days, blending in with fellow ‘traders’ who were also completely oblivious to the ruse.
Whether out of delicacy or a profound obliviousness, he didn't comment on the gangrenous-looking excrescence at the centre of my face. DOUBTING THOMAS
It's amazing how you can be completely oblivious to something on your own doorstep.
In their relationships with women, Russell and Ayer both seemed quite oblivious to the feelings of others when such feelings were likely to thwart their plans or ambitions.
It would likewise be odd that, in the 11 intervening years, he would have been totally oblivious to the drink's inclusion in cookbooks and on menus.
The man has no strength of character and is so oblivious to his own weakness that he doesn't even register how weak he sounds.
And like the British authorities who were blind to the Igbo tradition of ‘sitting on a man,’ the French remained oblivious to the extent of Ewe women's informal political authority.
He spoke with authority and enthusiasm, apparently oblivious to the adoring gazes of his star-struck coeds.
Some remained oblivious to the strike entirely. Times, Sunday Times
Its raging waters rushed past him and disappeared over the horizon in the distance, continuing on its predestined course in a wild frenzy, oblivious to his presence.
Buses and trucks play a game of chicken, oblivious to the concept of traffic lanes.
The outraged Father was supping noisily from his medicine, oblivious of the head's disapproving frown. THE MANANA MAN
He is oblivious of the smoke billowing from one of the towers behind him, white against a hazy blue sky. Times, Sunday Times
He looked about 35 and shuffled along slowly, looking down at his feet, oblivious to the noise, traffic and cars around him.
Sixty years after the mine collapse, the units glimmered with a sentient robot ferocity nearly a mile below the oblivious world above. 365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day

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