But the townsfolk continued as before, seemingly oblivious to their plight.
Despite the nerves that churned before his first college game, he was soon napping before kickoffs, oblivious to pressure.
St Francis kneels lifesize before you, oblivious to the people walking past him in the gallery, isolated in his dark place, oddly formless inside that cowl.
She also won't stop drawing the tattoo figure that her boyfriend drew before his death – oblivious to the alluring ginger with her on the island.
What a damaged map does, the experts say, is thrust all the symbols and signs of the world, to which people were largely oblivious before, onto the front burners of thought.
People are both willing to resist and fatalist: if something must happen, it will happen, and there's hardly anything you can do to prevent it, so the best course is to carry on as before and be oblivious of the danger.
The corpse of Scotty unexpectedly springs up, before turning towards the oblivious Ellen, ready to attack.
"Most of which I was oblivious to before starting the project.
For nearly an hour, as the sun bled into the horizon, shining a red-gold light over the still-wild hills, I stood before that house and yard, watching myself as a boy between ages 4 and 11, playing and dreaming before it all went bad, oblivious, full of hope and belief, my actual future unfathomable.
