Sentences with phrase «own obliviousness»

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).

Being a visionary and a maverick are great entrepreneurial traits but not when tempered by rash behavior and willful obliviousness.

It really is just sad that she decided to quit using her whole brain and just follow her amygdyla into obliviousness.

«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.

Instead, many whites have responded with silence / obliviousness or by attacking the black community.

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.

On 9/11 we lost the former illusion, but our leaders are invoking that experience to reinforce our hubris and our obliviousness to the consequences of our actions.

Sifton identifies with her father's indignation at American obliviousness.

The sports media's seeming obliviousness to the fact that racism against Asian - Americans is still racism made for one of the funniest SNL skits since their hilarious take on Tim Tebow.

«We went out on the field against those base teams not knowing any better,» says Morales, attributing many of the Bowie boys» victories to Herrera's enforced obliviousness.

I have become skilled at not seeing headlines I don't want to see, so I hope to maintain my obliviousness.

This really reeked of complacency, hubris, and obliviousness.

All of these were lessons I learned exactly because I went into my marriages without a lot of expectations and with a certain obliviousness.

It works on both the micro level (his surreal journey into easy mortgages and the edge of bankruptcy) and the macro (his story mirrors the obliviousness of the lenders, Wall Street bankers and policymakers).

Instead, the focus is on his longing for human contact and obliviousness to his own hardship as he crosses the vast chasm from pupil to manhood, with little help along the way.

Dehaene and a group of colleagues recently measured that obliviousness with yet another experiment.

Sally's obliviousness to her neglect suggests yet again that what she has is not merely a sensory deficit or blindness to visual input coming from her left nor even just a failure to attend to the left.

If you haven't yet heard of the gluten - free craze, a quick browse through a health food store or celebrity magazine will obliterate your obliviousness.

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.

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Well, perhaps I've underestimated the average teenager's obliviousness to the past.

Over Depardieu's lecherous skullduggery Denis lays the end credits, his affably manipulative performance and Isabelle's swoony obliviousness suggesting that Isabelle will never find what she's looking for.

Jonathon Rosenbaum paid the legendary megaton bomb Sextette the ultimate backhanded compliment when he called it «the most chivalrous film ever made,» citing its willful obliviousness to the incongruous spectacle of the world's men falling over themselves to sleep with a then - octogenarian Mae West.

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!

We see the inevitable end to her relationship with fellow high - school thespian Danny (recent Oscar nominee Lucas Hedges shares one the film's most significantly meaningful exchanges with Ronan) as well as the toxic dalliance with a spoiled little rich girl played with perfect obliviousness by Odeya Rush.

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.

Channeling those same twisted impulses through a studio comedy like Observe And Report takes either tremendous courage or a spectacular obliviousness to commercial expectation.

He enlivens the day of his neighbors by bringing a bohemian lady (Marie - France Alvarez) breakfast or reminding a forgetful man (Sanjeev Bhaskar plays Dr. Jafri with wonderful obliviousness) of his house keys.

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.

Given their general obliviousness, a simple trip through Brooklyn turns into an odyssey of self - inflicted mishaps.

This half - hour delight gave us everything we needed to know about this comedy duo — how Wallace's technological engineering skills are matched by a blissful obliviousness, how Gromit is always a step ahead of his master, and how their adventures are conveyed with an expressive, physical spirit that would make them feel at home among silent comedies.

But damn it all, just because we all know it's great (deeply uncomfortable racial obliviousness notwithstanding) does not mean we can't revisit it.

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.

His confidence is matched by his obliviousness.

But Ruth makes a solid point about the general ambivalence of people to basic empathy and complete obliviousness to anyone else.

Fighting the tide of amateurish, sexist and vaguely bullying humor is sweet - faced Morena Baccarin as the ex-flame, smiling / flirting with admirable obliviousness to the ineptitude around her.

Their presence only outlines the bubble that must be the world of Wes Anderson — obliviousness not being an uncommon side effect of auterism.

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.

Its energy is sustained because Baker allows the children to be completely natural and funny so that we never doubt the authenticity of their lives and their cultural obliviousness.

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.

Not unlike the beautiful French film, Goodbye First Love, Honeytrap takes young love and its oft accompanying obliviousness very seriously.

The obliviousness to everyday life is not confined to classroom supplies.

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