There's an odd kind of obliviousness that's crept into journalism over the past couple of decades that's now a full blown eruption. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
So the White House, too, is displaying obliviousness. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: End-of-Life Decisions: Medicare Is Already in the Room] Reference
The media barely noticed; the same obliviousness persists. From Wordnik.com. [Presidential Double-Talk] Reference
It's not just hostility or insensitivity, it's just total obliviousness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2005] Reference
There's also an issue of obliviousness on the whole carbon footprint thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Official TPM Tally: The McCains Own Eight To Eleven Houses] Reference
His obliviousness to how dog fighting plays to the American public is a mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Russ Wellen: Michael Vick's Second Crime Almost as Bad as his First] Reference
A pandemic of obliviousness -- earbuds, texting -- further ramps up the tension. From Wordnik.com. [Erik Lundegaard: Motorists vs. Cyclists: How The New York Times Ain't Helping] Reference
McCain is nothing but Hoover redux - voluntarism and pie in the sky obliviousness. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Keeps Hitting McCain On The Economy] Reference
There's an almost-charming obliviousness in Asheboro about Hillary Clinton's chances. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Bill and Hillary: Just Regular Folk in North Carolina] Reference
It suggests either obliviousness, fatalism or capitulation -- and none of these is good!. From Wordnik.com. [Overpopulation: 9 Billion Things to Talk About] Reference
And the third is their complete -- just almost obliviousness with overwhelming spending. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2007] Reference
DAVID EDELSTEIN: At capturing the poetry of male obliviousness, Will Ferrell has no peer. From Wordnik.com. [Will Ferrell Shines In Laugh-Filled 'Other Guys'] Reference
Flawed and inept as McClellan was, his obliviousness was ultimately his most consistent feature. From Wordnik.com. [Ankush Khardori: Why You Should Feel Bad for Scott McClellan] Reference
The time has come to end the boycott, the alienation and the obliviousness toward the state of Israel. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2007] Reference
Robert Parry, reporting in Consortium News, also raises doubts about Armitage's feigned obliviousness. From Wordnik.com. [David Fiderer: How Is Richard Armitage's Story Dishonest? Let's Count the Many Ways] Reference
They deny everything -- beginning with their own racism -- that might jar their status quo obliviousness. From Wordnik.com. [Milbank: McCain-Palin's Attacks On Media Have Spawned Unprecedented Crowd Hostility Toward Press] Reference
Wahlberg's anger and Ferrell's mild-mannered obliviousness are usually the ingredients for the film's laughs. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Other Guys] Reference
But that country-club gentleman, despite his obliviousness and condescension, was at least not openly hostile. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Cubias: I Should Have Went Samurai On Them, Or At Least Ninja] Reference
So the disappearing thing was pretty huge, actually, because of its passive obliviousness to her, her feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Ann, meet Bob] Reference
As well, the depth and breadth of media complicity and the obliviousness of so many Democrats to it, is alarming. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Daou: THE (Broken) TRIANGLE: Progressive Bloggers in the Wilderness] Reference
Knowing how nice Michael is despite his obliviousness toward their advances, pinning Jamal threw her feelings off. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossible Man - Ep.14: Ki to Wisdom] Reference
But researchers blame that on the skimpiness of the historical record rather than the obliviousness of our ancestors. From Wordnik.com. [When The Comet Flew Through Ancient Evenings] Reference
It is not surprising that men with an eye fixed on the future should develop a contempt or an obliviousness of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Despite her general obliviousness, even Amanda was beginning to get an inkling that she had become an object of suspicion. From Wordnik.com. [Perugia's Prime Suspect] Reference
They're not responding with the same kind of total misunderstanding and obliviousness that he had, but it has not been good. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2008] Reference
He missed a golden opportunity to ask Citigroup's former executives about their seeming obliviousness to this enormous risk. From Wordnik.com. [Congress's FCIC Nearly Nailed Former Citigroup Executives to the Wall -- Then Blew It] Reference
Cynthia Stevenson's Trish has been elongated into Allison Janney, who seems even more encased in her bubble of obliviousness. From Wordnik.com. ['Life During Wartime': Squirm-Worthy Storytelling] Reference
A surprising aspect of the Pennsylvania race has been the obliviousness of many of Hillary Clinton's supporters to the media. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Hillary Clinton In Pennsylvania: It's All Too Late] Reference
The Democratic Party needs her out (if it wants to win), but she shows a Bushian obliviousness to her own failure, so who knows. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Hillary's Lead In Ohio Grows To 10 Points] Reference
He followed them down the walk in a sweating agony of obliviousness, and climbed into the car with carefully normal lack of haste. From Wordnik.com. [Citadel] Reference
"I do believe there was a disregard with a transparent obliviousness to the significance of a call where you hear 10 shots," Mathes said. From Wordnik.com. [Lorenzen Wright's Ex-Wife Threatened By Gun-Toting Men, Attorney Says] Reference
He'd thought Master Feden's bluster was born out of obliviousness mixed with arrogance and conceit, so his feint hadn't been subtle enough. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
But at Wednesday night's New York premiere of the film, he showed that hip obliviousness to the wired world that his (our) generation is supposed to have pioneered. From Wordnik.com. [Darrell Hartman: Josh Hartnett Isn't Plugged In. Is He the Cooler For It?] Reference
This all may sound master of the obvious, or, paranoid, but I've spent many years running around with a sense of bulletproof obliviousness to my true circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Stacy Parker Aab: When Jail is the Price of Freedom: A Reality Check, Courtesy of MLK] Reference
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