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Anyway, he slunk back to the fond parent's side, where he ultimately allowed himself to be inveigled into swinging his new watch before the unattentive eyes of the red-faced babes on Alfred's knees.

From Baby Mine by Mayo, Margaret

When being at St. James's Garlick-Hill Church, I heard the Service read so distinctly, so emphatically, and so fervently, that it was next to an Impossibility to be unattentive.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

The public who do not believe in military operations without bloodshed may be unattentive.

From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Churchill, Winston

At length the blind man replied, as out of a negligent, unattentive thinking: 'Oh, I don't know.

From England, My England by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Thou appearest everywhere; and everywhere unattentive mortals neglect to perceive Thee. 

From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry