When Maggie Smith was not acting, she sat reading, oblivious of the tabloid whirl around her. Take note of her, Burton said; she has more talent than anyone else in the building.
Afterward, Stuczynski's eyes were glassy when she explained what it was like to put away her poles while the competition continued and while Isinbayeva sat nearby, oblivious to her disappointment.
In an interview at his office, Mr. Solow called his son Stefan, 32, his "heir apparent," a notion that caused Stefan to roll his eyes and squirm uncomfortably in his chair, while his father sat seemingly oblivious.
Chastain, oblivious, sits on a sofa in her room, feet pulled up and a grey McQueen dress arranged over her knees.
B.C., NEW JERSEY Imagine that instead of an oblivious competitor, your colleague sits next to an oblivious doctor who is foolishly writing in her patients' charts without obscuring their names.
Across the water sat Manhattan, still oblivious.
I sat and stewed, oblivious to the celebration around me; to the men and women dancing, separately, in groups; to my wife's attempts to have a conversation; to whatever.
Manhattan still sits across the river, and still is oblivious.
The point is not that I'm a Buddhist who's oblivious of material things and sits here smiling serenely and – Om! – not wanting.
Wallinger - more correctly, I guess, his bear persona - simply sits with his back to the window, oblivious, apparently exhausted by it all.
