Sentence examples for were not attuned from inspiring English sources

The International Water executives who were actually doing the work in the city were engineers, not marketers, and, being newly arrived from abroad, they were not attuned to the problems or passions of the Bolivian public.

So many mysterious black Lincoln Town Cars pile up at the Condé Nast building on an average evening, double-parked, even triple-parked, that if one were not attuned to the needs of the leggy, rich and editorially connected, one might think the United States government was covering up a U.F.O.

"What did the discussion consist of?" "Well, we just thought we and this particular life — We weren't attuned to it.

"We're not attuned to politics as we once were," Mr. Charbonnet said.

Even so, Kyashna-Tocha conceded that many consumers are not attuned to horticultural subtleties.

"It's really hard to get people who are not attuned to Off Off Broadway to come.

"The cultural reliance on the government for everything is not attuned to modern society," said Imad Moustapha, Syria's ambassador to Washington.

It feels increasingly that "friends" are seen primarily as potential opportunities – and, if you're not attuned to the cultural dilution of the word, you are likely to think people are actually your friends when they are not.

"Even designers who seem as if they have their heads in the clouds are not functioning as business people if, at some level, they are not attuned to the street," Mr. Koda said.

The point is over the decade of the 90's and into the fledgling days of 21st century, our consciousness was not attuned to the emerging pattern of attacks.

The psychoanalytic theorist Jessica Benjamin says that by age 2 a child begins to recognize the mother as a separate being; these two grown-ups are not attuned to their mother as a person.