What is "inattention"

Usage examples of "inattention".

The Voltairian apologues slipped through sometimes, owing to the inattention of the censor, and in this way Clerambault was marked out to the authorities as a very dangerous man.

It is the practical inattention to similar coincidences which has given rise to the unpleasant but often necessary documents called indictments, which has sharpened a form of the cephalotome sometimes employed in the case of adults, and adjusted that modification of the fillet which delivers the world of those who happen to be too much in the way while such striking coincidences are taking place.

It seemed to be a typical bandmostly young people, their faces ranging in expression from the timid optimism of the new recruit through the sunny confidence of those who, like the girl that had snagged him, had been with the faith for a while, to the vacuous inattention of a couple of long time communicants, on whose faces the obligatory smile sat like a welcome mat in front of an abandoned house.

Polyeidus's observations to the contrary notwithstanding, I looked for a tempest to wreck our ship as in that remarkable sentence in Perseid where the t's of the approaching storm trip through the humming n's of inattention and are joined by furious s's to strike the vessel as Perseus struck Andromeda.

When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of scepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchising them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future.

In the most extreme cases of attention deficit disorder, particularly among young children, this fear always underlies the surface inattention.

Hurst called them to order, with bitter complaints of their inattention to what was going forward.

Rap opened a new one at ground level, with an inattention anticharisma around it, and he scrambled out onto the courtyard flagstones, hot already from the early-morning sun.

The pavement had cracked and hoved from years of inattention, and in places it had begun to vanish under drifts of sandy soil.

That was an implicit function of her position, minimizing the extent to which the general could foul things up by sheer laziness and inattention to detail.

But his immoderate taste for the high life (which he shared with General Howe) curled a question mark over his capacities, and even in a farewell and affectionate letter to his wife before he sailed for Boston in 1775, he felt obliged, as a self-confessed libertine, to couple his declarations of everlasting love with apologies for “the levities, the inattentions, and dissipations of my common course of life.

In that split second of inattention the guy on the floor lunged forward, knocking down the medic and surging to his feet with surprising agility.

At Chame, through sheer inattention, he shot a Customs roadblock, and at Penonome he became aware of a pair of lynxes riding on his left tail-light - lynxes being young, very slim US-trained policemen in black leather who ride two to a motorcycle, carry submachine-guns and are famous for being polite to tourists and killing muggers, dopers and assassins - but tonight, it seemed, also murderous British spies.

The mare, also recently purchased, had not yet had the time to accustom herself to her new owner's peculiarities, and his almost aggressive inattention made her nervous.

Inattention to this is what has called for this explanation, which reflection would have rendered unnecessary with the candid, while nothing will do it with those who use the former opinion only as a stalking horse, to cover their disloyal propensities to keep us in eternal vassalage to a foreign and unfriendly people.