The characters fantasise about forgetting time altogether, but such grace is afforded here only to the ghosts of metaphor: "A weather front was stalled out in the Pacific – like a lonely person, lost in thought, oblivious of time".
His gifts hadn't deserted him, but he'd lost his playground: the oblivious world a satirist needs.
They shout, "Sit down, Jack Jack Jackck in the box, fuckin' sit down!" Morrissey, lost in the game, is oblivious.
Paul is probably the most consistently anti-Washington politician in all of Washington.Lots of them start that way and gradually, inexorably, go native.Members of Congress are like the donkey boys in "Pinocchio," lost in their revelries and oblivious to everything that's not in their Land of Toys .Mr
I'd crossed the street and walked to the Standard, totally lost in my own thoughts – oblivious because I'd done this walk a million times before.
Vickery looks lost in his excruciating memory, and oblivious to the specks of flesh that flutter around him like dust mites in the wintry afternoon light.
"You live your comfortable lives surrounded by poverty, homelessness and death, seemingly oblivious to everything around you, lost in the big bucks and success".
As a result, I was generally oblivious to the beautiful weather, lost in my own worries.
He seems oblivious to fears that the company has lost its way.
It was hard to gauge, but maybe he'd been going along all this time oblivious of the fact that he'd lost everything long ago.
