All 7 Uses
oblivious
in
Gone Girl
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- Amy was in the kitchen, oblivious to my hesitation.†
p. 7.1oblivious = unaware of
- You know I love you," I said, tailing her in and out of the family packs of dazed tourists parked in the middle of the sidewalk, oblivious and openmouthed.†
p. 19.9
- 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.†
p. 96.9 *obliviousness = lack of awareness
- Because I used to be his ideal, six years ago, and so I've heard his ruthless comments about women nearing forty: how pathetic he finds them, overdressed, out at bars, oblivious to their lack of appeal.†
p. 186.4oblivious = unaware of
- I looked in the rearview mirror—dread Carthage forty-three miles behind me, my smug husband lounging around his sticky bar as mayhem dangled on a thin piano wire just above his shitty, oblivious head—and I realized I was smiling.†
p. 219.3
- I had a shimmer of nausea as I pictured Amy trailing oblivious me in her car—to my dad's, to Go's, to goddamn Hannibal—watching me fuck this sweet young girl, my wife's lips twisting in disgust and triumph.†
p. 226.9
- The girl was wrapping herself around me even now, oblivious as a weed.†
p. 241.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(oblivious) unaware of
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)