Example Sentences

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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

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

Even an unobserving man—and Colonel Robert Darcy was not that—could hardly have helped seeing that his presence was unwelcome, and that he had interrupted an important interview.

From Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy by Wells, David Dwight

Filled with dreary imaginations, I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes, but my eyes were fixed and unobserving.

From Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Nothing looks more flower-like than these opening hickory buds, and to the unobserving passerby the transformation is nothing short of a miracle.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen