I surveyed the empty hallway outside Room 1117, where the cleaning man was now coating the floor with disinfectant the way he did after every discharge, oblivious to individual dramas.
Against the speeded-up color photography, in which clouds race above the building and shadows creep up and down the facade, the ghosts move at normal speed, caught up in their individual dramas, oblivious to time.
Coe, who was appointed IAAF vice-president in 2007, said: "Not oblivious, but not across the individual allegations that have surfaced recently.
On learning of Iraqi plans to execute Saddam Hussein, for example, he claimed that the death penalty was a matter for individual member states apparently oblivious of the General Assembly's history of opposition to capital punishment.
As the essayist Emile de Montégut said, "There is no people among whom abstract ideas have played such a great role, whose history is rife with such formidable philosophical tendencies, and where individuals are so oblivious to facts and possessed to such a high degree with a rage for abstractions".
But some individuals are still oblivious to the risks.
Kalepso uses differential privacy to allow database analysis without revealing individuals' data, while oblivious RAM re-scrambles the database after each query to avoid pattern leakages.
Thus, and somewhat counterintuitively, individuals should be either oblivious to the cues that signal high social fitness when choosing partners, or even be primed to actively avoid these cues.
Customers were oblivious to the fact that a human individual was operating the till – often ignoring her completely, without so much as a look or a word.
In other words, that he is a deranged individual who chose his target randomly, oblivious to the increasingly strident campaign to demonize Planned Parenthood in recent months.
"How can you stand it?" people ask about my project, unaware of how individual most "Nutcrackers" are and apparently oblivious to the staggering internal diversity of Tchaikovsky's score.
