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

By what might have seemed to the unobserving a happy coincidence, Amiel, strolling from his house to the beach with his after- dinner pipe, was hailed by Dorothea from the summerhouse.

From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various

Why, I took you for an unobserving blockhead, or I would never have trusted you so near me.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

The very serenity of Lord Coombe's apparently unobserving entrance was perhaps a shock as well as a relief.

From Robin by Burnett, Frances Hodgson