(1) The client may be so relieved by the result as to be inattentive to further information, but it's important to reinforce that a negative test does not include ‘immunity’(2) The public is often inattentive to agency decision-making, and so public involvement is minimal (though organized interest groups do pay close attention, and are heavily involved in rule-making and implementation).(3) If one believes that during a full moon there is an increase in accidents, one will notice when accidents occur during a full moon, but be inattentive to the moon when accidents occur at other times.(4) The mainstream dailies are so inattentive to their readers’ and advertisers’ needs it's sad, and they are not at all cost efficient.(5) In every case, I was inattentive to something critical.(6) He wrote that contemporary literary criticism was too often ‘worldless’, by which he meant inattentive to the circumstances that press upon texts, writers and readers alike.(7) Low energy prices, it said, ‘made the United States even more inattentive to the implications of half of its oil supply coming from other nations.’(8) Other women who had assumed considerable responsibility for their family and the home recalled that their mothers had been particularly inattentive to them.(9) The displays were drab, too few choices, the atmosphere lacklustre, the music no good, and worst of all, the attendants were complacent and inattentive .(10) Not to be outdone, many historians came to consider scholars trained in economics to be overly narrow, inattentive to historical context, and interpretively reductionistic.(11) His initial response to his wife's death was paralysis and guilt that his self-absorption in art had left him inattentive to her needs.(12) Legal scholars have concluded that half of the last 10 retirees have been too feeble or inattentive to fully participate in the work of the court.(13) What happened to his father, of course, was his father got hammered by Democrats for seemingly being inattentive to an onset of a recession, and that's partly how he lost his job.(14) Some children are too hyperactive or inattentive to function in a regular classroom, even with medication and a behavior management plan.(15) If one were weary at the end of the day, or careless at any time… one misstep, one inattentive moment and a fall was possible.(16) Although a majority of Italians were peasants, Italian nationalism had been remarkably inattentive to the peasantry.
