obliviousness

Example Sentences

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“That reflects Herod’s obliviousness to the richness of nature. For me, he is one of these people who violate not only other people but the earth itself.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2024

Identifying behaviors that make us recoil, like self-absorption and obliviousness, requires an ironic amount of self-reflection.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2023

Someday this chapter may be viewed as fascinating for its obliviousness and, from a public relations standpoint, its recklessness.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2023

And in one of the film’s slyer jokes, the hip-hop song “White Boy Summer” by their son Chet Hanks is used to personify a certain kind of clueless obliviousness in others.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2022

Emenike’s obliviousness had upset him, because it suggested a disregard, and, even worse, an indifference to him, and to his present life.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie