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was and oblivious
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.
But he was oblivious of all the worldly attainments and did not stop his penance.
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.

was and form
Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.
Twenty minutes later she was at the desk of the Grafin's pension, her tears dried, signing a hotel form and asking for a bath.
But her conscious need was to break away from constricting patterns of form, a need to let the experience shape itself.
It realized that to admit them was to jeopardize form.
I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.
Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.
Each aspired to be a god in human form, but with each it was a different kind of god.
Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.
Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.
Olgivanna -- in her country the nickname was a respectful form of address -- was not only attractive but shrewd, durable, sensible, and smart.
this was the form in which their private feud most often appeared in the Tory press, especially the Examiner.
It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.
Our comment was that this was `` featherbedding '' in its ultimate form and that sympathy for the railroad was misplaced since it had entered into such an agreement.
It was often re-enacted in less wild form at the Wednesday night prayer meeting.
The form was swathed in an army blanket, much patched, fastened at the neck with a cord.
But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.
that he was `` devoting an average of 100 hours a month to actual preaching publicly '', in addition to 50 to 75 hours in other ministerial duties, and that he opposed war in any form.
As soon as the time came for re-sharpening, the precise form of the gear tooth was lost and a new cutter had to be made.
Mold was used as pattern and clay cut by holding knife at about 45-degree angle, to form an undercut, making base smaller than the pattern top.
Together they also developed a new form of voltaic cell in which the wooden trough was replaced by one of copper, thereby producing stronger currents.

was and object
There was one object which sickened yet fascinated me.
Now it did not occur to him even to wonder whether it was wise for Robinson to dive again: Rob was his boy, the kid he had rescued from the streets, the object of his pride.
`` The entire object of the press conference was to clarify the problem of the list, since many in the press were querying the U.N. about it.
The captain was remarking that it was a nice day for a picnic when finally one of the shovels struck an object.
( 1 ) When an object was placed in the patient's hand, he had no difficulty determining whether it was warm or cold, sharp or blunt, rough or smooth, flexible, soft, or hard ; ;
Therefore, his only recourse was to learn the shape all over again for each new visual experience of the same individual object or type of object ; ;
About the 4th century BCE, the paean became merely a formula of adulation ; its object was either to implore protection against disease and misfortune, or to offer thanks after such protection had been rendered.
The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".
These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.
The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.
Traces of this hidden agenda of the city's history is found in the 18th century guidebooks to Aachen as well as to the other spas ; the main indication for visiting patients, ironically, was syphilis ; only by the end of the 19th century had rheuma become the most important object of cures at Aachen and Burtscheid.
As a youngster living in poverty, along with his childhood friends, Johnson was an object of ridicule from members of higher social circles ; as such, he was commonly referred to as " poor white trash " by the elite in Raleigh.
Alfonso was the object of diplomatic contacts from the empire of Ethiopia.
Notable queens of the Amazons are Penthesilea, who participated in the Trojan War, and her sister Hippolyta, whose magical girdle, given to her by her father Ares, was the object of one of the labours of Hercules.
In other words, the absolute magnitude of any object equals the apparent magnitude it would have if it was 10 parsecs away.
In the locative meaning, the receding object was near the other place or object, not inside it.
Note that this case in this example implies that the user was next to the solid object, and not inside it.

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