Stalking my unlistening tendency, finding what I don't like to hear nor listen, of course. From Wordnik.com. [il blog: School for parents, round #3] Reference
"The arrogant attitude and the unlistening behaviour of the employer has reached stinking levels," charged the ZCTU. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I shouted to his unlistening ears that I would surrender myself if only he would allow me to stop existing in this vacuum. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
IN PRACTICE it is widely derided as undemocratic, unaccountable, manipulated, unlistening, and at the end of the day railroaded by the government. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Warwick: Comrades, Sisters and Brothers, Colleagues - What Has Been Delivered?] Reference
Kids won't be kids forever and one way to kill your school in the long run is to be unkind and unlistening now or just to not educate them or tell them what they need to know. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
To their strange speech unlistening ears were strange. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1] Reference
Like Summers and Klein, a number of the wannabes are arrogant and unlistening. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
The voices of his mother and sisters, raised at times in eagerness or expectation of the future, fell upon his unlistening ears. From Wordnik.com. [A First Family of Tasajara] Reference
This was wrung from the unlistening Tracy by the anguished thought of what might have been if only the dinner arrangements hadn't got mixed. From Wordnik.com. [The American Claimant] Reference
Hopefully, there will be a general election soon and this uncaring and unlistening Government will be voted out and the expansion will not go ahead. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
It had been repeated many times and though never more artfully stated than now, it fell upon unlistening ears, making no impression whatever upon Congress and very little upon the country. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference
So, at least, thinks the caravanserai-jee, who becomes anxious about it and tries to persuade them to come down; but he might as well attempt to summon down from above the unlistening clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
Jean, stiff and sore after his day's march, went and sat down a little way from Maurice, whose murmured words fell indistinctly upon his unlistening ear, for he, too, had vague, half formed reflections of his own that were stirring sluggishly in the recesses of his muddy, torpid mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Downfall] Reference
“Did you know, beloved, at the last, in that intolerable heat, in that moment of supreme anguish, that he is unlistening, unhelpful as the stars, that you cried not to him?. From Wordnik.com. [Green Mansions] Reference
To senseless and unlistening ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
The burst of music down an unlistening street. From Wordnik.com. [0 1250. Tears by Lizette Woodworth Reese. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
The burst of music down an unlistening street, . From Wordnik.com. [Tears] Reference
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