Sentences with phrase «in obliviousness»

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A full six pages of Benchmark's lawsuit were dedicated to describing Kalanick's role in the Otto acquisition and Benchmark's obliviousness to alleged wrongdoing; I noted when the lawsuit was filed that it, more than any of Uber's scandals, had the potential to be Kalanick's doom, and apparently Benchmark agrees (although, of course, one should question why Gurley, then an Uber board member, apparently declined to do more digging on a $ 680 million acquisition).

«Each group must stick firmly to schedule or, as happened during one of my visits, a kind of backlog of devotion can build up: foot - tapping Armenians were stalled behind impatient Greeks as an overflow of Copts intoned their prayers in apparent obliviousness of the traffic jam.

As soon, in fact, as his characters come to see the awful truth about themselves and their world, they often retreat again into their accustomed obliviousness.

Paul Griffiths's obliviousness to the economy of social contract in the matter of rights compels him to claim that the Church supported «legalized murder» for two thousand years.

Hamann's humor consists so much in ludicrous involutions of thought and language, and in the cumulative effect of one absurdity heaped atop another, and in the almost sweetly earnest obliviousness of a voice like that of a holy fool that one must almost entirely immerse oneself in his imaginative world in order to enjoy the fruits of his comic genius.

In keeping with this cosmopolitanism, Hartshorne's attitude was a refreshing combination of respect for and obliviousness to disciplinary boundaries.

I guess the weather felt so much like March had that it set me back... Well, these are my APRIL favorites, in case you were confused by my obliviousness.

For all the affairs, the jealousy, the self - involvement and the obliviousness of some characters, these are lives in lower case and for all her compassion, Jaoui doesn't give us much reason to want to know them.

These dopes» deadpan obliviousness provide the majority of punchlines in Airplane!

But in The Darjeeling Limited, the comedy is also distinctly satirical, with its barbs aimed at deflating the vanity, obliviousness, and irresponsibility of those who bear that power.

But in a way, it's surprisingly easy not to think about current events during Only The Brave, and not through sheer obliviousness.

Particularly notable are the obsession with technology and surveillance from Benny's Video, here updated from VHS to smartphones and the Internet; the racial suspicion of Code Unknown; the revenge nightmare from Hidden; the euthanasia theme from Amour (which also featured Trintignant and Huppert as father and daughter, suggesting a sequel of sorts), as well as more general themes of family dysfunction and the obliviousness of the well - to - do towards immigrants — it's no coincidence that the film takes place in Calais, yet never once shows the Migrant Jungle.

A few characters, like Skeeter's ailing mother (Allison Janney), are given a trajectory from racial obliviousness to semi-enlightenment, but for the most part, whites in this movie are either pure - of - heart crusaders or sneering bigots.

Yet the endearingly handmade qualities of Park's shorter works are still fully evident, especially in Gromit's priceless silent reactions to his human master's frequent obliviousness.

Skander Halim's script is a real mouthful; at times delightfully bitchy, it touches on a wide swath of hot - button issues and topics, and like, say, Donnie Darko, hearteningly shows the cruel underbelly of adolescent life in a way that mainstream studio films do not, and also the way that teens craftily exploit one another's obliviousness.

But it's also more evidence of the obliviousness that allows Geng to forge ahead on a radical act of social engineering that displaces 30 percent of Datong's residents in an effort to renew the coal - choked city.

Mixing comedy and tragedy is nothing new, but what writer / directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Bad Santa) have concocted is a dizzyingly fast paced story of hyper camp, criminal, love - bird misfits whose obliviousness to their own ridiculous tragedy is shot in such a bright comedic tone it feels almost cruel to watch.

International Donors» Obliviousness to Human Rights Violations and Lack of Democracy in the Disbursement of Aid: A Case of Post-Genocide Rwanda.

Seamlessly integrating classic Wonder Woman lore with her own updated take, Bardugo fleshes out Diana's backstory and the mythology of Themyscira, adds in sly commentary on feminism and equality, and leavens the package with wry comedy — Diana's dour obliviousness to contemporary culture will make readers guffaw.

MACIEJ TOPOROWICZ, a Polish - born artist living in New York, likes neither the subliminal messages of advertising nor its obliviousness to the harsher facts of life, and he uses one against the other.

Re # 10: It's not the mirrors as mirrors, it's the idea of destroying the natural ecosystems over vast areas of land in order to generate electricity — and the exercise in either cynicism or sheer obliviousness that is required to call the result «green power».