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

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

In other words, spiders toss, turn, and avert their unseeing gaze, much as humans do during their dreams.

From Washington Times • Aug. 9, 2022

“To do so, however, meant unseeing social reality.”

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2018

As I went down the stairs he was standing by the windowsill on the landing, looking out, blind and unseeing.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt