unseeing
Britishadjective
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
Hamm, the volatile, unseeing tyrant in Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” has ordered the creation of this cloth companion: one more creature to shrink from him in the dreary, age-worn room that is his realm.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023
Trym stirred, blinked, and watched them for a while, unseeing.
From Slate • Dec. 24, 2022
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
Mr. Dalton looked round the entire kitchen, not at anything in particular, but just round the entire stretch of four walls, his eyes wide and unseeing.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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