He plays as if he's a student, oblivious to everyone around him, and this is a practice session.

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Instead, he says, women need to feel relaxed in order to feel sexy -- and it's hard to unwind when there are chores to be done and a husband who's oblivious to them.

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They stride around proclaiming a project's permanence, oblivious to the shadow of catastrophe that looms behind them.

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Martin McGuinn, who took over as chief executive two years ago, is a lawyer by training and oblivious to banker's hours: He's gazing over Pittsburgh from his top-floor office by 5:30 every morning, when the three sprawling rivers below are still black as the coal buried deep in the surrounding hills.

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The market hasn't been oblivious to Exodus' financial situation--even after a recent rally, the firm's stock is off 84% from its 52-week high.

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On learning of Iraqi plans to execute Saddam Hussein, for example, he claimed that the death penalty was a matter for individual member states apparently oblivious of the General Assembly's history of opposition to capital punishment.

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