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How to use the word oblivious in a Sentence?

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angry, violent, bizarre, we’re obscene in our lust, oblivious in our pain. i’m a man driven by my passions. sometimes I desire normalcy but then my brain wakes up and i return to reality.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

I keep saying this to the Democratic Party. The reason why you're so toxic is because you've become the party of no common sense. And people see this on their newsfeeds, they see things on their phone or on their Facebook page, people pass things around and it's a constant drip, drip, drip of ‘ Oh, these people are nuts' in a way -- they're not oblivious to the fact that Trump is nuts. When he ran, one of his big selling points was ‘ You’ve got no choice.' He was saying, ‘ Yes, I know I ’m nuts. You know I'm nuts. But they're nuts in a very different way that's closer to home to you.'.

Bill Maher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The CDC has become a political arm of the administration. The CDC wants to control every element of our life, we have a President in the White House and Democrats in Congress that are completely oblivious to the frustration the American people are feeling at this moment.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You know, people think sometimes that public health officials are oblivious to the economic considerations. Not at all -- I mean, we are very empathetic towards that, but we still have to maintain the public health measures if we're going to get our arms around this outbreak.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Anyone who resorts to installing illegal tracking devices on the vehicles of their adversaries is either highly motivated, desperate, unstable, or completely oblivious to the consequences.

Keith Byers

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Trying to do science by press release, without backing it up, either with a traditional journal or a preprint... has universally led to misunderstanding and has no place in science. The biotechs are doing it because they're writing for their shareholders, they're writing for their investors, but it's being done in a way that's oblivious to its public health impact and needs to stop.

Peter Hotez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is incredibly sad - I was literally two feet from this dead whale, it was both poignant and a bit eerie really - road traffic was thundering overhead on the busiest motorway in Britain and oblivious to all the people in the cars and lorries there was a 10-metre long beautiful whale floating dead beneath them.

Martin Garside

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

United States regulators are not that savvy as far as financial services are concerned, they've either been oblivious on regulation, or incredibly strict.

United States

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Internal Revenue Service is everything the so-called tax protesters said it was; nonresponsive, unable to withstand scrutiny, tyrannical, and oblivious to the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution.

Joseph Banister

added by Normando
5 years ago

Today's parade is sending the message that we are a peaceful people but we will never be oblivious of our defense.

Arif Alvi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

For much of 2018, the United States economy has been oblivious to a turn in the global economic cycle, this week has seen the SP, and the Nasdaq, sit up and pay attention to what's going on.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House senior adviser, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we've seen this week, you know, Ivanka Trump, White House senior adviser's a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless c *** !

Samantha Bees

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we've seen this week, you know, Ivanka Trump, that's a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless c *** !

Samantha Bee

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we’ve seen this week.

Samantha Bee

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I will admit, before taking the class, I was completely oblivious to the many interesting conversations happening around the country about this subject.

Cat Packer

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Directors are historically pretty oblivious to the interpersonal things on their set, being so focused on what they’re doing creatively, the fact that this was happening under our noses and we did n’t know about it...

James Cameron

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Clearly they're not disclosing everything, money was being spent to influence State Department public policy and we are oblivious to that.

Craig Holman

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Banks, insurance companies, pension funds and Mom and Pop on Main Street are stripped of their ability to pay for future debts and retirement benefits, central banks seem oblivious to this dark side of low interest rates. If maintained for too long, the real economy itself is affected as expected income fails to materialize and investment spending stagnates.

Bill Gross

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Too many politicians and pundits here in America have been woefully oblivious to, or in some cases complicit in, what is going on around us, the failed European Union experiment, and Great Britain’s rejection of it, must serve as a wake-up call for all of us in America.

Jeff Sessions

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We are not oblivious to our defence needs and will have to upgrade our defensive capabilities through suitable technologies without entering into an arms race.

Sartaj Aziz

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I got away from the guy, but was extremely upset at how oblivious I had been to this possibility.

Jennifer Cutrona

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Most consumers are not hung up on, if not completely oblivious to, where the car is made, at the end of the day if it is a Buick-badged vehicle that we really like as a domestic buyer, we're going to buy it.

Karl Brauer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Your finances are the lifeblood of everything you want to do, you shouldn’t be oblivious to what your finances are, just as you wouldn’t be oblivious to your health.

Charles Day

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It is hard to know exactly what will come out of this first conversation, i am not oblivious to the weight of history.

The State Department official

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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