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  • He stares at her with burning intensity, completely oblivious to Rosie.   (source)
  • But he was looking the other way, oblivious to the scuffling and noise, opening the blades on his pocketknife, one by one, and stabbing them into the juniper post.   (source)
  • He seemed oblivious to everything going on around him, even when R.W. Quincy stole Todd's wheelchair and pushed Dexter around and around before running him into the wall.   (source)
  • But Grant was oblivious to the discomfort.†   (source)
  • But Jim is oblivious;   (source)
    oblivious = completely unaware
  • They advance, their heads together, so interested in a discussion they are oblivious to everyone.   (source)
    oblivious = unaware of
  • She thanked Mother for her herbal advice but seemed oblivious to the expectation that she renounce doctors.†   (source)
  • He smiled at the young biologist, absorbed, oblivious.†   (source)
  • He towed his paint cart behind him, oblivious to the fact that he was being followed.†   (source)
  • And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either.†   (source)
  • We couldn't believe the army had been oblivious to bin Laden's whereabouts.†   (source)
  • Hassan, of course, was oblivious to this.†   (source)
  • At times, I'd slip into a kind of trance, sitting with my eyes closed, oblivious to the passage of time, listening to the sounds of the world outside my room.†   (source)
  • Traffic barrels past at seventy miles per hour, oblivious to the little drama unfolding on the shoulder.†   (source)
  • 3 engine died, Pillsbury found the temporary copilot, oblivious, sitting with his boot resting against the engine's ignition switch, pushing it into the "off" position.†   (source)
  • And for once in his life, Little Man was happily oblivious to the mud spattering upon him.†   (source)
  • Once I saw her with Alex Thomas, deep in conversation, ambling along past the War Memorial; once at the Jubilee Bridge, once idling outside Betty's Luncheonette, oblivious to turning heads, mine included.†   (source)
  • Edgar dropped his mother's wrist and ran toward the door, so grim and ecstatic and oblivious he fell over a bale of straw and went down, legs kicking.†   (source)
  • He's so oblivious; I don't even think he notices I'm mad.†   (source)
  • A man pulling a horse and cart walked past me, oblivious, either not seeing me or not caring that I was there.†   (source)
  • They all looked to Sofia who, oblivious to the course of the debate, was admiring herself in the mirror.†   (source)
  • Other people stared at us, Ken was speechless, and Mom was oblivious.†   (source)
  • His two young nephews, oblivious to their changing world, ran innocently along the platform, chasing the train.†   (source)
  • He slept alone on the couch in the living room, oblivious to the blaring basketball game on the television, or the fact that his son had just walked in the house.†   (source)
  • But Mrs. Traynor seemed oblivious.†   (source)
  • He sat and tried to bring back memories, but every effort evaporated into oblivious mist before anything formed.†   (source)
  • Madam Rosmerta was staring over from behind the bar, apparently oblivious to the fact that the flagon she was filling with mead was overflowing.†   (source)
  • Werner walks home oblivious to the rain, trying to absorb the immensity of what has happened.†   (source)
  • Luther was oblivious to the movements of the thread and to the antics of the fly at the end of it.†   (source)
  • "Let's see," Silvia said, looking through stacks of letters, completely oblivious to the almost-argument that had taken place not seconds ago.†   (source)
  • He stood mere inches from the clattering rollers, seemingly oblivious to the fact that— as he'd explained to his son—were he caught by a sleeve he'd be instantly popped open like a child's balloon and splattered across the walls.†   (source)
  • Even if you're a little oblivious.†   (source)
  • In fact, most of us were oblivious to it, since we didn't even attend the games.†   (source)
  • She did everything quickly and never lingered affectionately over these operations, though she could be gently teasing or humorous, joking with even the youngest and most oblivious infant.†   (source)
  • Peter wished he knew how to be as easy and natural as Matt, but all his life, he'd always seemed to laugh just a little too loud or too late; to be oblivious to the fact that he was the one being laughed at.†   (source)
  • It was the same look he then delivered to the congregation—oblivious to, if not contemptuous of, the gifts the wise men and the shepherds laid at his feet.†   (source)
  • All afternoon, the three children had sat and worried in the Reptile Room, under the mocking stare of Stephano and the oblivious—the word "oblivious" here means "not aware that Stephano was really Count Olaf and thus being in a great deal of danger"—chatter of Uncle Monty.†   (source)
  • But the prince went on, oblivious to how dangerously close he stood to her.†   (source)
  • "She can't do that!" she cried, oblivious to the flames licking her hand.†   (source)
  • Jon sat heavily on the long wooden bench as the others left, oblivious to the looks they gave him, the silent promises of future retribution.†   (source)
  • Kohler seemed oblivious to the cold.†   (source)
  • Listening now to Auntie Lin bragging about the virtues of her family in China, I realize that Auntie Lin is oblivious to Auntie An-mei's pain.†   (source)
  • She ambled along, oblivious to her chaperone's convulsions.†   (source)
  • She's sitting awkwardly against the wall of the chimney, oblivious to the rain that runs down her face.†   (source)
  • The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.†   (source)
  • The Chrysler's seats were going to be a little bit wet when Mom drove to work, but I held out hope that she wouldn't notice, since she was pretty oblivious.†   (source)
  • As soon as we finished work, we threw ourselves on our mats and fell fast asleep, oblivious to our sweaty, filthy bodies and crying stomachs.†   (source)
  • Entirely oblivious of what trucks can do to frogs.†   (source)
  • Ringer seems oblivious to our discomfort.†   (source)
  • The planet beneath them was almost perfectly oblivious of their presence, which was just how they wanted it for the moment.†   (source)
  • A streetcar stopped, and passengers boarded, oblivious to our presence.†   (source)
  • Boris— oblivious— snored beside me.†   (source)
  • He seemed oblivious.†   (source)
  • Oblivious to the chatter on the trucker's two-way radio, Enrique falls asleep.†   (source)
  • As usual, she's oblivious to the fact that I hate it when other people see me change.†   (source)
  • They're divided into their cliques, the jocks and the cheerleaders, the band kids carrying instruments, the brains in their glasses with their textbooks and BlackBerries, the stoners off to one side, oblivious to everyone else.†   (source)
  • I wanted to smack her, right then, the obliviousness, the girliness, of her: trying to get an ego stroke from the husband of a missing woman.†   (source)
  • The elf lolled on his back, oblivious to the danger.†   (source)
  • The lieutenant and Two Card had eyed the animal, which sat in the soldier's folded arm, twitching its nose, oblivious.†   (source)
  • Whenever she caught sight of her reflection in a window she lingered, smiling in front of it, oblivious to all else.†   (source)
  • A major confrontation erupted just above where the two high schools were playing their game, oblivious to what was going on.†   (source)
  • She was completely oblivious to the dark shadow tracking her from behind.†   (source)
  • The imam was oblivious to what was going on until it was too late.†   (source)
  • 124 was so full of strong feeling perhaps she was oblivious to the loss of anything at all.†   (source)
  • There were several Shrike priests at the head of the stairs now, seemingly oblivious to the gunfire all around them.†   (source)
  • When I finally brought mother and child home, Marley was oblivious.†   (source)
  • "I'm spending the weekend with Johnny Depp," I say, attempting to appear oblivious to her demeanor.†   (source)
  • The man's eyes followed Kvothe's moving hand, but seemed oblivious to everything being said around him.†   (source)
  • I worked diligently, oblivious to the long lines stretching away in the dark.†   (source)
  • Edward seemed oblivious.†   (source)
  • The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.†   (source)
  • As it turns out, though, he is able to see things in the spirit and divine world, can see the truth of what's actually happened, truth to which our hero is utterly oblivious.†   (source)
  • He plays as if he's a student, oblivious to everyone around him, and this is a practice session.†   (source)
  • "I couldn't take that away without making them useless to me," Anaander Mianaai continued, oblivious to the person—the citizen?†   (source)
  • I wondered how often Mrs. Lincoln and her cronies had paced back and forth on the floor above us, oblivious to what was below them.†   (source)
  • Like an oblivious Hester Prynne she carries her letter, the green capital D of her bow slung over her shoulder.†   (source)
  • Chris tried to play things down to me so I wouldn't worry, but I wasn't oblivious and I could read between the lines.†   (source)
  • Hilde read on, oblivious of all else, even forgetting that it was her birthday.†   (source)
  • Her light brown skin is smooth, her eyes still young and playful, oblivious to the tumor growing inside her—a tumor that would leave her five children motherless and change the future of medicine.†   (source)
  • It was as if we were black insects utterly camouflaged in the night, watching the slaves move, oblivious to us, discover the wounded man, drag him back, fan out in the foliage searching for the attacker.†   (source)
  • Clary glanced backward as the carriage hit the pavement again with a jolt—the cab driver was smoking and staring ahead, utterly oblivious.†   (source)
  • The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be.†   (source)
  • For a moment ragged voices continued oblivious, and then they stopped.†   (source)
  • It didn't happen as much as it used to, but he still found future NFL stars to whom the recruiters were oblivious.†   (source)
  • Christiansen was concentrating on his instruments, oblivious of the view out of the canopy.†   (source)
  • A few people turned to look at her and whispered among themselves, as often happened as she passed, but Rosa seemed oblivious.†   (source)
  • I was out to the world, the first time I had slept soundly for a week, oblivious to the weather, oblivious to the Taliban.†   (source)
  • The locals remained oblivious of "Liz's" real background as a Jordanian Muslim, even as they got to know her.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, New York drivers were used to swerving around oblivious pedestrians.†   (source)
  • Some said they were totally oblivious to that and didn't see this coming.†   (source)
  • She seemed oblivious to me.†   (source)
  • I wanted to be tough like Sarah Byrnes, to stand straight and tall, oblivious to my gut eclipsing my belt buckle, and say, "Up yours!"†   (source)
  • I WRAP my blanket tight around my shoulders, keeping a close eye on Carmine as he staggers around, seemingly oblivious to the cold.†   (source)
  • But insulated by her money, a staff of paid attendants, and unwavering selfabsorption, Pittman was heedless of the resentment and scorn she inspired in others; she remained as oblivious as Jane Austen's Emma.†   (source)
  • They flew into their husbands, oblivious to the greasy coal smearing their clothes.†   (source)
  • He was about fourteen, sitting in the porch swing, bent over his guitar, playing intently, oblivious to everything around him, caught up in the music.†   (source)
  • She, like all the others, was oblivious.†   (source)
  • Which would be okay except that she's also oblivious to the commotion that my presence is creating along Ninth Avenue, which is full of bars and people loitering and smoking in front of them.†   (source)
  • His clothes became increasingly impoverished — his frame thinner; a hunted look appeared in his eyes, and on his last visits, he would spend long periods staring into space, oblivious of his lordship's presence or, sometimes, even of having been addressed.†   (source)
  • This caller sailed on oblivious.†   (source)
  • The animals keep strolling up, oblivious to what comes next, and he stands over them and shoots.†   (source)
  • Now he stood before the misty doors of the jazz joint, peering in, sensing rather than seeing the frantic black people on the stand and the oblivious, mixed crowd at the bar.†   (source)
  • Damien dropped to his knees, and oblivious to the growing pool of blood that surrounded us and soaked us, he pressed close to Stevie Rae, holding the candle in front of her face.†   (source)
  • Shelley is still busy looking at her magazines, oblivious to the tension between my parents.†   (source)
  • He gasped at the sight of the wide-eyed and delirious nun, her face pinched and anxious, her nose sharp as a pen, the nostrils flaring with each breath, seemingly awake and yet completely oblivious to her visitors.†   (source)
  • This time around, Ximena, Gretchen, and Ellie were talking together, completely oblivious to me.†   (source)
  • I sat next to Alice Evans, who never complained about anything, and Annemarie sat next to Jay Stringer, who was oblivious to the world when he was reading, but Colin sat next to Julia.†   (source)
  • They were milling around, oblivious to their burning apartments, angrily planning to march on the mayor's office about the pigeons.†   (source)
  • A few spectators glanced at her, and glanced away, embarrassed; the rest seemed oblivious of the raw dirge counter pointing Dewey's continuing recitation; even her husband, perhaps because he believed it unmanly to take notice, remained aloof.†   (source)
  • (He stops short, struck dumb at the sight of the oblivious WALTER and RUTH) BENEATHA: (Smoothing her hair with slight embarrassment) Oh—yes, that's my mother†   (source)
  • He seems so content, she thinks, oblivious to almost everything, even her.†   (source)
  • Both had dropped like rocks once they dismounted, oblivious to wet clothes and too tired to be interested in food.†   (source)
  • And so the dream lay undisturbed under her eyelashes, and she breasted the slope of the big mountain with a buoyant step, oblivious of fatigue.†   (source)
  • The eraser drop was deliberate, but Dave is oblivious.†   (source)
  • I felt laughter welling up inside me—at the dragon-charm, at Hrothgar's whispering and trembling by the meadhall door, at everything—the oblivious trees and sky, the witless moon.†   (source)
  • Uncle Willie didn't seem to notice that Mr. Taylor was oblivious to everything he said.†   (source)
  • He could engross himself in an inconsequential task for hours without growing restless or bored, as oblivious to fatigue as the stump of a tree, and almost as taciturn.†   (source)
  • Mark was the same, still oblivious to the pain he caused her.†   (source)
  • Finally Moon Orchid gathered up her stuff, strings hanging and papers loose, and met her sister at the door, where they shook hands, oblivious to blocking the way.†   (source)
  • He needed to see his family, needed to see ...And there was Fox, gripping Layla's hand as he wound his way through the oblivious crowd.†   (source)
  • Patrons continued to stroll by, but they seemed far away and oblivious to the small gallery, its lone occupant, and the strange tapestry More threads came to life, plucked from their slumber in a rising chorus of light and music.†   (source)
  • Half of the clan lived like Ameh Bozorg, oblivious to squalor, contemptuous of western customs and ideals, and clinging to their own zealous brand of the Ayatollah Khomeini's fanatical Shiite sect of Islam.†   (source)
  • She links her arm through mine, oblivious to my bad temper.†   (source)
  • He ranted about injustice or history or the problems of the world, but was happily oblivious to the observations of others.†   (source)
  • Despite the adoration of millions of men around the world, there had to be some reason that her own husband seemed oblivious to her sexual charms.†   (source)
  • Anything could have happened around me at that time, and I would have been oblivious to it.†   (source)
  • They talked together in soft voices, oblivious of the mirth and music in the hall about them.†   (source)
  • My father was oblivious.†   (source)
  • If Fiver's horrors had kept him above ground all night in the rain, oblivious of cold and prowling elil, then clearly it was not going to be easy to talk him out of them.†   (source)
  • The street bustled with thousands of Thailand's finest, oblivious to the drama unfolding five stories above their heads.†   (source)
  • Oblivious to the storm of lead and steel, some bent down and shoved wire mats under the treads of mired tanks; others calmly climbed into bulldozers to begin roughing out the semblance of a road system.†   (source)
  • Meredith looked from Nelly to Vlad and back, shaking her head, completely oblivious to what had almost transpired.†   (source)
  • Oblivious to the black-haired threat behind her, Echo released Isaiah, glowing as if Jesus had appeared and turned water into wine.†   (source)
  • The dog started sniffing around the edge of their yard, snuffling in the weeds, oblivious to the rain.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, Mortenson grew up happily oblivious to race.†   (source)
  • "The last slave lasted two weeks," the slaver continues, oblivious to my growing terror.†   (source)
  • Huxley let go of Glass's arm and dashed over to a display of ribbons, oblivious to the nearby group of girls who'd fallen silent at Glass's arrival.†   (source)
  • The concierge had taken one; he was reading it avidly; poking a toothpick between his teeth, oblivious to everything but the latest scandal.†   (source)
  • She was being her normal, oblivious self as she sat on her throne, gnawing her turkey leg.†   (source)
  • Well, the slaughterhouse is harder," he mockingly told the oblivious hogs.†   (source)
  • She seemed oblivious to the implication.†   (source)
  • Oblivious of the tumult, a Creole woman spits out a curse.†   (source)
  • The driver still wore the exact same expression, oblivious to the strange events going on around her.†   (source)
  • We weren't oblivious to it.†   (source)
  • Oblivious of the heat, Rafi and Luciana sat on canvas chairs in the middle of the orchard, the chess set between them on an upended fruit box.†   (source)
  • Kevin's a kid, he's oblivious.†   (source)
  • My name came out muffled as he kissed me again and again, oblivious that others watched our reunion.†   (source)
  • We stood the jar on the flat stone beside our shoes while we fished, and industriously scampered back to it now and then with our catch, oblivious of all else until a voice said: 'Hullo, there, David!†   (source)
  • Through it all, Drizzt sat unmoving and oblivious to the conditions, his stoic dedication to duty overriding any personal distress.†   (source)
  • Halfway back to his beach towel and his cooler of beer, all but oblivious of the sunning multitudes through which he weaved, he remembered the pale-faced man in the red and orange Hawaiian shirt.†   (source)
  • She seems oblivious to the attention.†   (source)
  • Monroe remained oblivious to these exchanges.†   (source)
  • For two days and nights they had been oblivious to the amount of destruction outside their home.†   (source)
  • Luckily, Theresa was oblivious to the offering.†   (source)
  • As the story goes, Sarge jumped out of his cruiser oblivious of the shotgun, ran Dewey down in the parking lot, and knocked him unconscious with one punch before he hauled him off to jail.†   (source)
  • I guess you condition your mind and train yourself to be oblivious to pain.†   (source)
  • "And the older he gets, the worse he gets," she went on obliviously.†   (source)
  • Stars clung to the cloudless sky above Jerusalem, oblivious to the sun that lay low and fiery above the cleft of the Jordan Valley.†   (source)
  • It grew dark, and still Molligen remained fixed at his desk, poring over his law books with remarkable powers of stillness and concentration, oblivious to our hostile presence.†   (source)
  • He used to while away the days as calm and unruffled as Buddha, ensconced in a great leather chair and apparently oblivious to the storms which swirled through the corridors of Greenhedges.†   (source)
  • He kept that apart from his family, though obviously through the early years of her adolescence she could not remain completely oblivious of his animosity toward Jews.†   (source)
  • ANNIE and HELEN are now alone in the yard, HELEN seated at the pump, where she has been oblivious to it all, a battered little savage, playing with the doll in a picture of innocent contentment.†   (source)
  • They stood together in the terminal lobby, a tiny island oblivious to the human eddies around them.†   (source)
  • She was oblivious of the people around her.†   (source)
  • The voices buzzed, pleased and oblivious as locusts.†   (source)
  • He remembered all the while the oblivious crash of the windows next door being shut when the rain started.... But now, in this unseen place, it was he who stood looking at poor Mrs. Larkin.†   (source)
  • The young Federalist from Massachusetts, as though he were oblivious to their attitude, heaped fuel upon the fires of Federalist rage by attending a banquet of Jeffersonians in celebration of the purchase!†   (source)
  • For a good month Dick was oblivious, gone into a beautiful dream of rich honeycombs and heavy dark clusters of fruitful bees.†   (source)
  • In my heart, I knew that there were factors here that he was oblivious to.†   (source)
  • Each one of them stared at the sky with a glazed expression, a look of oblivious glee.†   (source)
  • They seemed oblivious to the man at the desk.†   (source)
  • "Arthur's done a bit o' tinkerin'," said Hagrid, quite oblivious to Harry's discomfort.†   (source)
  • Roran stared through the brush at the oblivious soldiers.†   (source)
  • Again, however, Dumbledore seemed oblivious to Harry's attempt to catch his eye.†   (source)
  • The prep team seems oblivious to the events of the day.†   (source)
  • Just a handful of tourists milling around aimlessly, oblivious to Langdon's grand entrance.†   (source)
  • Did he fly around town, oblivious to the danger?†   (source)
  • "People who've been injured because of war," Giti said earnestly, oblivious to Hasina's toying.†   (source)
  • She pictured him lying serenely on the beach, oblivious to all problems in the world.†   (source)
  • How bewildered I was by the way some of them treated each other, oblivious to their own good luck.†   (source)
  • Why, for so many years, were conductors so oblivious to the corruption of their snap judgments?†   (source)
  • "Chicken or hot dog?" she asked, seemingly oblivious to all of this.†   (source)
  • Garrett pressed on, oblivious of her response.†   (source)
  • The two men with mallets were oblivious to the pandemonium around them.†   (source)
  • I thought everyone was either scared, like you, or oblivious, like Lacey.†   (source)
  • He paces up and down, oblivious to the eyes in the towers surrounding the camp.†   (source)
  • How could he be so oblivious to my apprehension?†   (source)
  • Nathaniel seems oblivious, though I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong.†   (source)
  • They walked away from her across the bridge, oblivious to everything but their own conversation.†   (source)
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