He was oblivious of the form of the object actually being viewed, precisely because he could not assign it to a visual shape, already learned and held in visual memory, as persons of normal vision do.

Therefore, unbeknown to the French who remained oblivious to the Allies ’ real strength and intentions on the opposite side of the Petite Gheete, Marlborough was throwing his full weight against Ramillies and the open plain to the south.

There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap-opera cries, sleep-walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there.

Odo had pined for her for years, while she was oblivious.

The task-oriented Taft was oblivious to the political ramifications of his decisions, often alienated his own key constituencies, and was overwhelmingly defeated in his bid for a second term in the presidential election of 1912.

Taft was oblivious to the serious damage that this decision caused his political reputation.

Some were oblivious to the fact that Johnny Speight was satirising racialist attitudes.

In general, Dean was oblivious to Hollywood's methods, and Rathgeb notes that " his radical style did not mesh with Hollywood's corporate gears.

Any chance of an upset victory was dashed as the spectre of internal revolution and a government oblivious to the peril dominated the public consciousness.

For his part, Pugsley was largely oblivious of the harm his sister tried to inflict on him, or an enthusiastic supporter of it, viewing all attempts as fun and games.

Thrawn was not oblivious to the threat this posed to his people.

One of their biggest hits, " Cali Pachanguero " ( 1989 ), was seemingly arranged oblivious to clave.

He stayed at another lord's castle for several months, oblivious to many not-so-subtle hints to leave, and was eventually forcibly removed by a butler.

He said McCartney was " oblivious to anyone else's feelings in the studio ," and that he was driven to make the best possible record, at almost any cost.

* Legend has it that he was so engrossed in a performance of Richard III that he was oblivious to a bone fracture, inspiring the theatrical felicitation " Break a leg!

This was followed by what appeared to be another advertisement: viewers were oblivious to the fact that the following " advertisement " was actually a parody of other well-known advertisements until the Energizer bunny suddenly intrudes on the situation, with the announcer saying " Still going ..." ( the Energizer Battery Company's way of emphasizing that their battery lasts longer than other leading batteries ).

Overall, the general public was left oblivious to the actions and even existence of the Golden Dawn, making the policies a success.

To see the footlights and not to see them ; to gauge the reactions of hundreds of people, and yet to throw myself so completely into a role that I was oblivious to their reaction.

The Great Western Railway seemed oblivious to the massive expansion in coal and mineral production that was occurring in South Wales during the second half of the 19th century.

Use of the phrase was often received with laughter from studio audiences, due to Del's oblivious belief that it had affectionate implications.

But all of this was rationalization.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

What else he said was lost in the rattle of gunfire on all sides.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.

Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.

Perhaps it was all a vividly conceived dream.

It was not, thought Pamela, such an evil place after all.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

Against all expectation, Carmer was inside, clearly enjoying himself to the hilt and already so tipsy that it seemed unlikely he was bothering to note anything or anyone about him.

There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.

It was all Greg had time to see.

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

It was a time when individual expression and worldly experience became two of the main themes of Renaissance art.

The King was recognized as having the right to invest bishops with secular authority (" by the lance ") in the territories they governed, but not with sacred authority (" by ring and staff "); the result was that bishops owed allegiance in worldly matters both to the pope and to the king, for they were obligated to affirm the right of the sovereign to call upon them for military support, under his oath of fealty.

The King, however, was madly in love with his beautiful and worldly bride and granted her every whim, even though her behavior baffled and vexed him no end.

German sociologist Max Weber mentioned Scottish Presbyterianism in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1905 ), and many scholars in recent decades argued that Calvinism's " this worldly asceticism " was integral to Scotland's rapid economic modernization.

The problem was perhaps that he was a successful, worldly author who played polo, moved in fashionable circles and even appeared as an actor in Warren Beatty's Reds.

Another renowned part of the coronation was the lighting of a bundle of flax at the top of a gilded pole, which would flare brightly for a moment and then promptly extinguish, with the admonition Sic transit gloria mundi (" Thus passes worldly glory ").

The word was usually used in this worldly and stereotypical sense, particularly among those who were drawing attention to what they perceived as being the limitations of Paganism.

Aside from the Benedictines at Monte Cassino, Honorius was also determined to deal with the monks at Cluny Abbey under their ambitious and worldly abbot, Pons of Melgueil.

Acclaimed the biggest sporting figure in the world at his peak, Nurmi was averse to publicity and the media, stating later on his 75th birthday that " worldly fame and reputation are worth less than a rotten lingonberry.

Her work was allied to the worldly tradition of Cremona, influenced greatly by the art of Parma and Mantua, in which even religious works were imbued with extreme delicacy and charm.

In Christian theology, the word was also used synonymously with aion to refer to " worldly life " or " this world " as opposed to the afterlife or World to Come.

Sir Henry " Chips " Channon wrote that she was " above politics ... magnificent, humorous, worldly, in fact nearly sublime, though cold and hard.

" Although he acknowledged that the film was not without its charms — Paris and Cannes being " two of the most photogenic cities on earth "— Ebert wrote, " Kline's Frenchman is somehow not worldly enough, and Ryan's heroine never convinces us she ever loved her fiance in the first place.

Although Jerome, who produced the Latin Vulgate version of the Scriptures, used the word " sirens " to translate Hebrew tenim ( jackals ) in Isaiah 13: 22, and also to translate a word for " owls " in Jeremiah 50: 39, this was explained by Ambrose to be a mere symbol or allegory for worldly temptations, and not an endorsement of the Greek myth.

In Lutheran tradition from the 16th to the 20th century, Good Friday was the most important holiday, and abstention from all worldly works was expected.

It was also seen as heresy for going against the first of the ten commandments ( You shall have no other gods before me ) or as violating majesty, in this case referring to the divine majesty, not the worldly.

He returned to Giloh, his native place, and after arranging his worldly affairs, hanged himself, and was buried in the sepulcher of his fathers ( 2 Sam.

On the contrary, a careful reading in context of the family letters reveals a father who cared deeply for his son but who was frequently frustrated in his greatest ambition: to secure for Wolfgang a worldly position appropriate to his genius.

The Bishopric of Utrecht continued as a state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1024 until 1528, when the secular authority and territorial possessions of the bishopric and its entire worldly power were secularized by Emperor Charles V. The diocese itself continued to exist as an ecclesiastical entity, and in 1559 was elevated to an archbishopric.

About this time he was appointed to a canonry in Utrecht and to another in Aachen, and the life of the brilliant young scholar was rapidly becoming luxurious, secular and selfish, when a great spiritual change passed over him which resulted in a final renunciation of every worldly enjoyment.

Like other religious reformers of the time, they felt that the Catholic Church needed radical cleansing of its impurities, and that the Pope ruled the Church as if it was a worldly kingdom, which sat in mocking tyranny over the things of God, and was ultimately doomed.