unseeingness

Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies.

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring do ceased at the very latest no later than the Middle Ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the floaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies.

“It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.” 2008

A wind within the smoke, impelling me ahead of it as if I had no more weight or substance than a leaf or petal-driving me onward through this unseeingness-this place of spectres -

Year of the Unicorn Norton, Andre 1965

It may be annoying to be passed by an “unseeing” acquaintance, but one should be careful not to confuse absent-minded unseeingness with alert and intentional slight.

Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies.

The Kanaka Surf 1919

She sat, leaning forward, her elbows on the table, and once, when she glanced round and found Althea's eyes fixed on her, she looked back for a moment, but with something of the same vagueness and unseeingness with which she looked out of the window.

Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

There was little need for him to assume the frigid contemptuousness of Mrs. Gurley’s manner: his mere presence, the very unseeingness of his gaze, inspired awe.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003