Apparently I'm "extroverted and well-intentioned yet oblivious to the extent of, well, my naivete".
The behavior can include driving in the wrong direction or slamming into light poles or parked vehicles, as well as seeming oblivious to the arresting officers, according to a presentation last month at a meeting of forensic scientists.
Moreover, it's remarkably catholic in its appeal, swinging from one end of the style spectrum to the other, all the while appealing to men and women, young and old, the fashion conscious as well as the oblivious, in countries around the world.
We are like the frog in the well, which remains oblivious to the existence of the ocean, playing out minor freedoms within a set of limiting patterns; thinking 'this is it!' and occasionally wondering 'is this it?' If, however, businesses were to engage with customers not simply as consumers but as citizens, it would be a meaningful acknowledgment of the existence of something much larger.
His latest novel, Juliet, Naked, is another confirmation that Nick Hornby writes misery well -- particularly oblivious misery (think Will Freeman in About A Boy). Duncan is miserable, though he doesn't realize he is.
Packed with the stereotypes it aspires to challenge, Diane Crespo and Stefan C. Schaefer's well-meaning but oblivious film is a doctrinaire wolf in rebel-sheep's clothing.
Packed with the stereotypes it aspires to challenge, Diane Crespo and Stefan C. Schaefer's well-meaning but oblivious film presents ostensibly modern young women who are nevertheless defined solely by their faith.
No milk!" A baker (Oliver Hardy, improbably reprised from "In the Night Kitchen"), a milkman, an ice cream vendor and Brundibar, the organ grinder, ply their wares -- food and song -- and sponge up the disposable income of well-heeled and oblivious adults.
Hiding and laundering the money often requires a network of devious offshore lawyers ("expert in exotic island banks, sleazy accountants, pirate tax-havens, fake charities, backdated registrations"), corrupt military officers, well-connected mistresses, oblivious front men, or the occasional Liechtenstein foundation.
The N.H.L., in the person of Brendan Shanahan, its well-meaning but oblivious disciplinarian, fined Weber a ridiculous pittance of twenty-five hundred dolland, and insisted on engaging in increasingly strained and pedantic arguments about the mystery of intention, in which violence is parsed out and punished depending on whether or not the violent act is deemed a "hockey play".
