Parents with children strapped to their backs wander inattentively between their seats and the concession stalls, and others chatter among friends as if they were watching a baseball game at neighboring Safeco Field.
This is true of many who die in their sleep, or inattentively, in stupors and fogs.
Really, as every reporter who attends them never tires of saying, they are little more than rallies designed to comfort the faithful and "project" the leader to the electorate sitting inattentively at home.
Part (muted) autobiography, part critique of his profession as an art historian - and more than anything else a rapt account of what it is to look attentively and inattentively and still be able to think politically - Clark has written a book about loss of attention and the possibilities of its recovery.
Domingo had, according to New York critic Fred Kirshnit, "trudged along inattentively" while Netrebko luxuriated (in a measured and masterful fashion) in Mimi's introduction aria ("Mi chiamo Mimi").
Janet listens rather inattentively, and excitedly points out Glenn as he runs by once again.
To us literature is still a thing of letters; we are old-fashioned enough to believe that great writing, like ours, should be read, not listened to perhaps inattentively.
Instead there is a precise unsparing observation that remakes the world as strange and much more wonderful than we normally, inattentively suppose.
"The yellow one," she replied inattentively.
He listens inattentively when I describe what television was like when I was growing up with Doctor Who: the program came on at a certain time of day, once a week, and there was no way to record it.
A new life opened before me, in which I would touch up my lipstick and read the newspaper while a handsome young executive in the next car gestured inattentively to a chocolate Labrador on his back seat.
