Inattentive or mischievous pupils should be the mark for frequent questions.
Because of this the teacher must win the inattentive and restless, and must check the restless, if he would save his recitation.
It is neither good pedagogy nor good manners for a teacher to sit unresponsive and inattentivewhen a pupil is reciting.
It will therefore be a safe rule not to repeat assignments for the benefit of careless or inattentive pupils.
I mention this, in order that you may not think me inattentive to your request, by having hitherto omitted to point out to you the difference between the theatrical amusements here under the monarchy, and those of the republic.
The weather was fine, which contributed not a little to display the country to greater advantage; but the improvements recently made in agriculture are too striking to escape the notice of the most inattentive observer.
Whatever renders us forgetful of our Creator, and of the purposes for which he called us into being, or leads us to be inattentive to his commands, or neglectful in the performance of them, becomes criminal, however innocent in its own nature.
He was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her.
So that, for their own sake, all would have preferred the inattentive mornings.
It is remarkable that so good a Latin scholar as Johnson, should have been so inattentive to the metre, as by mistake to have written stellas instead of ignes.
MY LORD, After a long and not inattentive observation of mankind, the generosity of your Lordship's offer raises in me not less wonder than gratitude[1081].
I told my story; and it may well be imagined my hearers were neither inattentive nor unmoved.
They had not been altogether so inattentive as I had imagined.
There was one motive, however, which made me less inattentive to the scene that was continually shifting before and without me than I am wont to be.
Though busied in these reflections, I was not inattentive to the progress of time.
On a shelf above his head reposed some frayed and yellow novels with sporting titles, written by persons in their inattentive moments.
These were evidences of intelligence and distrust, to which one as practised as the trapper could not turn an inattentive ear.
If he perceived any one inattentive to his prayers, he would stop and rebuke the offender, and not go on till he saw every one on their knees.
His predecessor, the venerable John Crosse, known as the 'blind vicar,' had been inattentive to the vicarial claims.
For one thing he talked to himself out loud, principally in Chinese, and the sliding unintelligible tongue, accompanied by the sight of his gaunt yellow face, his inattentive fixed eyes, gave her an icy shiver.
But his enumeration of the new islands which had been formed in the Mediterranean, and of other convulsions, shows that the ancients had not been inattentive observers of the changes which had taken place within the memory of man.
His words were borne past the inattentive ears of the excited and mortified followers of Earing, but they failed of their effect.
Deaf to~, Regardless of, heedless of, inattentive to.
It has often been a matter of grief to me that both Henry and Robert have a sad habit of appearing, if not of being, inattentive at church.
Raskolnikov muttered in reply, but with such a preoccupied and inattentive air that Dounia gazed at him in perplexity.
He found him incredibly inattentive and irritable, though he, Andrey Semyonovitch, began enlarging on his favourite subject, the foundation of a new special "commune.
Harlan, who had spent an inattentive year at a school of mines before he was requested to leave, began to take an interest in the situation.
She grew inattentiveto the questions of Loll as she watched her brother-in-law at the table oiling and polishing the old revolver.
She was so inattentive to Loll's questions when the daily lessons were in progress that the little boy grew impatient and asked Jean to help him instead.
Mr. Aiken sprang at hisinattentive throat, and nailed him.
The comparison flattered her, though she was astonished that Pan Stanislav had uttered it with a serious voice, but with an inattentive and, as it were, ironical face.
I aminattentive by nature," said he; "but do you know who taught me a little carefulness?
