It would be easy to judge Drew for his obliviousness.
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And this isn't the only time Kavanaugh has pleaded obliviousness.
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A little obliviousness has always been part of his charm.
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You mentioned obliviousness is something you especially don't like in humans.
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C-3PO's obliviousness is the cherry on top of this cinematic perfection.
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And so for me to express even my obliviousness...is an indictment.
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Rules Do Not Apply is a monument to obliviousness, an unwitting testament
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But are we slowly crumbling, experiencing the obliviousness that leads to rot?
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Selina's obliviousness gets the better of her in multiple ways this episode.
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It's either a sign of optimism or obliviousness; it's unclear yet which.
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That obliviousness also comes in handy when men insult me, sometimes accidentally.
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All politicians stretch the truth, but Trump has a steady obliviousness to accuracy.
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It's this apparent forever-young callousness -- or obliviousness -- that's touched a raw nerve.
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But this kind of knowingness is as naïve as the obliviousness it critiques.
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Obliviousness could mean putting yourself in a place where you are blown into oblivion.
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Even if this claim were true, an apology for his obliviousness seems in order.
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I'd like to think I grew out of that; I'm ashamed of my obliviousness.
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If an own exposes another person's ignorance, a self-own reveals your own obliviousness.
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And, again, I wouldn't mind living in that candy-coated world, despite its obliviousness.
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And I was happy for his obliviousness, because although I was only three years older than him I'd learned by then to see obliviousness as the surest sign of belonging, and I wanted more than anything for him to feel he belonged.
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For the record: After marveling for a bit at her obliviousness, we got her attention.
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There's a kind of hope I'm into that is not wishful thinking or willful obliviousness.
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But does anyone really want to wear their own obliviousness on their gorgeously embroidered sleeve?
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I repeat this history because I don't think moral obliviousness is built in a day.
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In everyday life, it's precisely that obliviousness that makes privilege such a hornet's nest of reactions.
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After years of total obliviousness, a cartoon character comes to terms with only having nine toes.
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Now, normally I'd agree, but in this case, there's something strangely, oddly inspiring about KSHMR's obliviousness.
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There was still some hope that this stemmed from an obliviousness rather than some deeper disconnect.
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Bhabie's youthful ignorance, coupled with a blatant racial obliviousness together make her primed to flame out spectacularly.
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It simply takes flat-out commitment to the gas pedal, and a certain obliviousness to good sense.
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There I saw a practiced obliviousness among parents and children that I also did not fully understand.
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That obliviousness — or worse — is behind one of the more disturbing moments in her "60 Minutes" interview.
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The enemy of the people is ignorance — obliviousness to truth, ignoring it or having incredulity about it.
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Given the terror attacks at the Bataclan and elsewhere in Paris in 2015, that's not necessarily obliviousness.
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Stewart has Picard's fatherly mannerisms down pat while Spiner resurrects Data's earnest obliviousness without skipping a beat.
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Even if the loan was on the level, it doesn't absolve either Kushner or Apollo of their obliviousness.
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His obliviousness — to the mounting attention, not just Hasselbeck's second act in broadcasting — is what can sustain it.
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From here the extravagance and craftsmanship of high-end Art Deco, and its accompanying social obliviousness, is prominent.
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The mantra "Black lives matter" seems addressed as much to obliviousness as to hostility within the white establishment.
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He was equal parts obliviousness and desperation, and if sympathy wasn't called for, there was room for understanding.
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At worst, it's yet another example of Hollywood's obliviousness and its willingness to feed into its audience's self-satisfaction.
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Despite the match's obliviousness, the people of Reddit who did understand the reference thought the OP was absolutely brilliant.
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Hansen finds a willful innocence in American assumptions, an obliviousness to history and to the burdens of imperial power.
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When her friend Marnie (Allison Williams) enters one apartment, newly single and almost radioactively aglow, she doubles the obliviousness.
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" But she can also take us to the outer edges of neurotic obliviousness, as in Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine.
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Still, for better and for worse, it can't evade the happy-few obliviousness of Deco's relentless high-end glamour.
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Before, when the character was basically oblivious to that fact, Silicon Valley could mine that obliviousness to comedic effect.
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It also has the same unnerving childlike quality as "Mom and Dad's Pussy," further couching everything in a weird obliviousness.
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Jacek Adamas's intriguing conceptual works juxtapose the art establishment's love of Western modernity with its apparent obliviousness to national identity.
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Those subtle displays of obliviousness are often frustrating (when they're not humorous), and we're far from alone in our experiences.
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That Jodi's New Orleans high school is named after a real-life civil-rights activist only underlines the film's obliviousness.
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But is obliviousness so wrong, especially in a world where so many are so stuck on getting it just right?
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The obliviousness on display Thursday caused a tweet-storm; we don't know yet whether that storm will do lasting damage.
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His inability to understand Amy and Meg's financial practicality stems from his obliviousness to women's subservient place in contemporary society.
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I think that Dan helps me understand in a more nuanced way where a lot of white obliviousness comes from.
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Powell transforms him into a monster of ambition and obliviousness, and for good measure throws in a hint of sexual kinkiness.
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As I said, there's still a lot of racism and sexism out there — far more than, in my obliviousness, I realized.
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Yet if fear and obliviousness have led us periodically to target refugees, there's also another thread that runs through American history.
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She was part of a group of people who took advantage of others' trust and obliviousness to smuggle racists into polite society.
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This obliviousness to the outside world is ameliorated with Sony's Ambient Sound mode, which pipes external sound in via the integrated microphones.
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There's a pure, innocent beauty in that kind of obliviousness, and it's that magic we're trying to remember and tediously rank today.
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Instead it drags, hitting the same notes about Kathryn's obliviousness and self-dramatizing, and it starts to feel like a long weekend indeed.
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A deft performer, she clearly enjoys Lolly's woozy, crude obliviousness, but she is just as happy to cede the stage to Mr. Keating.
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These chapters often target privileged obliviousness — but they're also, crucially, not the only stories concerning this demographic that High Maintenance wants to tell.
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Some people expressed shock at learning that the story wasn't satire; others were outraged at this young woman's obliviousness toward her economic advantages.
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If nothing else, Trump's election demands that we return to the real world in all its complexities and contradictions, and confront our own obliviousness.
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Whether it's obliviousness or incompetence or both, the Senate is losing what may be a limited opportunity for the GOP to make meaningful change.
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The Skins are an eternal fucking disgrace that has lost an entire generation of local fans thanks to their incompetence, racism, and general obliviousness.
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But I've also seen a horror extending from the screen and filling the packed theatre spaces; the banal laughter and obliviousness of white progressive liberals.
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Of course, that requires getting past his trademark obliviousness about someone like Pauline (Jo Hartley), a fellow office worker who clearly has feelings for him.
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"I was astounded at the obliviousness and the ignorance of the Academy people with regard to the notion of stereotypes," Takei told The Hollywood Reporter.
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Reality exists, and it has come knocking, and Art, who shares some of his mother's political obliviousness, will be knocked into a resensitized political awareness.
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The uneven economic recovery raised questions about the party's obliviousness to the impunity of Wall Street and the gap between the megawealthy and everyone else.
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It's a sign of obliviousness or disdain for codes of presidential restraint — which may be what got Trump into impeachment trouble in the first place.
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It's a complicated proposition using a runway show of expensive party clothes as a treatise on wealth disparity and the obliviousness of the ruling class.
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But there is also a sort of confused, abashed one, often ironic, that acknowledges a problem and tries to work through a particularly American obliviousness.
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How could he do something that reflected — under the most generous interpretation — such obliviousness and insensitivity to a well-known symbol of America's racist history?
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Gillibrand has been pushing reforms on the subject since 2013, after she first saw a documentary highlighting the military's obliviousness to its problem with sexual assault.
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But as surreal as the spectacle was, it wasn't disturbing enough to shake Republicans out of their determined obliviousness to the chaos of the Trump administration.
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As do dozens other experiences from my childhood, each flashback an articulation of both the hyper-tenuousness of my life then and my obliviousness to it.
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He wants to please and defend his wife-to-be, whom he loves with such obliviousness that he proposes to her at the worst possible time.
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Merchant gently plays with this idea, mostly to fill in the story as she progresses from obliviousness to self-knowledge and the inevitable third-act clinch.
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Obliviousness is not a justification for neglecting all the people Red carefully describes as fellow Americans — and everyone on the surface faces the same potentially gruesome fate.
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The second season episode is the Dunder-Mifflin crew at their early-years best, with Michael's total obliviousness at odds with his burning desire to be loved.
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When Aimee decides to open a nonprofit in an unnamed African country, it's a sign of her obliviousness, but it becomes an escape hatch for the narrator.
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But critics say that if Mr. Salvini's League Party has made bad good, its coalition partner, the Five Star Movement, has elevated obliviousness to a professional credential.
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We see it in "The Strong Man," an 1865 painting, which contrasts the jabber and gesticulations of an overactive barker and stolid obliviousness of the title character.
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But what is more disconcerting than Mr. Trump's constitutional ignorance is his obliviousness to the idea that some things fall within state jurisdiction and others do not.
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Love is not judgmental about Hyden, and lets him be his sunny, deluded self — down to a willful obliviousness about the realities of drug trafficking and use.
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It goes to some dark, counterintuitive places out of a seeming obliviousness to both what science fiction audiences might want to see, and how actual people might behave.
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Indeed, it's the obviousness of each man's agenda, and Mr. Trump's obliviousness to that obviousness, that makes the scene so banal as stagecraft — and so startling as statecraft.
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He took a piece for himself and, demonstrating a wonderful obliviousness of cosmic context, declared that this meteorite was definitely a sign that his army would defeat his enemies.
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While the 2016 campaign may have set new benchmarks for voters' obliviousness, regardless of whom they supported, governments have long managed to survive by delivering both sustenance and entertainment.
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In the end the debate over artistic freedom seemed less important than the intensity of the anger: the speed and starkness with which it illuminated white obliviousness and entitlement.
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It can be a short leap from taking physical liberties with a woman (even if they're minor, even if they're done out of sheer obliviousness) to dismissing her ideas.
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Thanks to the beauty of a GoPro on a selfie stick now we all get to watch the destruction of said camera, as well and the obliviousness of everyone involved.
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The appeal of Valenti's memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it.
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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer defended the disgraced Uber leader's honor — or at least his obliviousness — in a speech in Palo Alto on Tuesday, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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There is a temptation to focus on Turtleneck Man as a person: his tilted head, his wry smile, his chirpy obliviousness to the loud booing that envelops his final sentiments.
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Some students, high on sunshine and beers and obliviousness, relied on their youth as a shield and ignored warnings they could carry the virus back to their parents and grandparents.
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The comedian's segment was on the 1,500 "missing" migrant children under the Trump administration and Ivanka's seeming obliviousness to it as she Instagrammed pictures of herself with her own kids.
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In lines that tumble out so quickly they sometimes overlap, she calls out her own self-deceptions and fears of being alone as well as her ex's lies and obliviousness.
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This obliviousness mixed with the outsized confidence you need to make it as a rapper has, so far, been both the key to initial mega success and a subsequent epic flameout.
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The American publishing industry's obliviousness, legacy of discrimination, and limited inclusion of Latinx writers, was, if not a secret, surely underdiscussed in mainstream circles until the recent discourse around American Dirt.
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Us plant-inept folk just can't seem to stop accidentally murdering our photosynthetic friends, either due to pure obliviousness or a streak of bad luck (it's definitely just bad luck, right?).
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That same obliviousness probably led to jokes in bad taste on email lists, and the scrawled name card on this door at MIT, where he was until yesterday a Visiting Scientist.
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The events that followed the appeasement of Germany in the 1930s were so horrific that appeasement has become an unequivocal pejorative — evoking an unholy combination of blind obliviousness and cowardly acquiescence.
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Unfortunately, however, the ref's obliviousness to Letourneau's condition meant that Calderwood had to chase her retreating foe across the canvas to brutalize her against the cage before the fight was finally stopped.
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When his father died in 1964, Mr. Bard took over as manager and began running the hotel with a studied obliviousness until he was forced out in a power struggle in 2007.
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In an essay for Literary Hub shortly before the Shriver controversy, Brandon Taylor covers similar ground as Abdel-Magied—both argue against the literature of white obliviousness—but they wind up with opposite arguments.
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This seems to be the trajectory of Palhares's career: a tumble from the UFC to the WSOF to points elsewhere, carrying extra muscle and an obliviousness to the reputation for monstrosity that he's cultivated.
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Happy Ending is ultimately a disappointment — a toothless, one-note story that chides upper-class white people for their insensitivity and obliviousness, in part by treating a series of mute, confused black refugees like props.
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It also renewed debate over the President's inner thoughts about race and his apparent obliviousness to the standards of decorum and propriety expected of a head of state as he stands in the Oval Office.
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Not for us laser-brained viewers, of course—we get to happily lose ourselves in big-screen Gravitrons like A New Hope or Return of the Jedi multiple times, and with complete laugh-it-up obliviousness.
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Someone was telling me recently that Henry was becoming one of their favorite characters, but I'm having a little bit of trouble investing in him and his obliviousness at all due to everything else going on.
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Season 5: The looks the Queen of Thorns gave Cersei after the latter's transparent attempts at skullduggery made the season, as did Mace's cheerful obliviousness to the fact that everyone else considers him a complete tool.
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Nate (like his brother Nick) may exist in antagonistic obliviousness to the rules and expectations of the straight world but the straight world is always lying in wait to pay back free souls for their insolence.
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They may lament Trump's gleeful anticipation of "winning" the trade wars he starts—as if trade were a zero-sum game—and his seeming obliviousness to the fact that trade wars can have lose-lose outcomes.
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Watching Gene Cousineau (Winkler) try to teach Barry how to act when the concept of emoting might as well be a foreign language to him is always hilarious, particularly when Winkler leans into Gene's utter obliviousness.
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In Fire at Sea, we can see that this approach has translated into a sort of banal obliviousness among Lampedusa locals, an absence of connection that is neither ill-intentioned nor malign, but is felt sharply nonetheless.
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The comments, appearing to lay some blame for the 72 deaths on the people trapped in the flames, angered other lawmakers and shocked even critics who have grown used to Mr. Rees-Mogg's flashes of aristocratic obliviousness.
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But it called necessary attention to unhealthy developments in the Democratic Party, including its at-times obliviousness to the lingering economic pain of the middle class and the young, and its drift toward political caution over aspiration.
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The interview style he perfected followed a pattern: feigned obliviousness, wrestlers ratcheting up the verbal or physical intensity of their actions, a whiff of frustration or bemusement, then throwing it back to the announcing table or ring.
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His low-key manner, which on the campaign trail manifested as a doctor's reassurance, appeared to work against Mr. Northam at a news conference on Saturday at the Executive Mansion in Richmond, suggesting a kind of obliviousness.
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Mr. Alford, who used to write a monthly manners column for The New York Times, described the issue as a "monomaniacal obliviousness" of being absorbed in an activity to the exclusion of the rest of the world.
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The closing moments of the season feature a cliffhanger that may reflect a serious danger for deaf people (and that gains an extra dimension from Kate's obliviousness to what's happened) but is a head-smacker in dramatic terms.
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Girls premiered in 2012 to an immediate shitstorm of disdain, critical praise, charges of obliviousness and nepotism, and in the uglier parts of the internet, fierce shaming because women like Dunham dared to get naked and filthy onscreen.
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I will grab shit out of the sky for days in virtual reality where I'm locked into my obliviousness and in a space like my living room, but I can only crunch so much tech in the wide open.
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During last night's White Sox and Cardinals game in Chicago (hot dog city, mind you), some eagle-eyed camera man spotted a jaunty old fellow who sported not only a black cabbie hat, but an adorable obliviousness to condiments.
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Plus, we all know that the traditional bubble of celebrity still encloses many of our biggest stars in a state of superior obliviousness, even in this hyperconnected world (see Nicki Minaj schooling Taylor Swift about systemic racism in 2015).
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"We're really looking for someone to take over the kids completely," Tom tells Abigail shortly into the job interview, and if he speaks with the obliviousness of the egregiously entitled, that doesn't deter the levelheaded nanny from signing on.
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Glancing references to ecological disaster on earth — the Pacific has gone toxic, children died in a famine in France — contrast with the apparent affluence and obliviousness of the passengers, a ship-of-fools bunch concerned mainly with clogged toilets.
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This Sunday, HBO also premieres Paterno, which stars Pacino as khaki'd football coach and legendary geezer Joe Paterno, a man who, until the scandal he died inside of, seemed to exist somewhere between obliviousness and the tranquilizing indifference of old-age.
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With the help of her friends, Jenner has made tremendous progress from the obliviousness of living in a bubble to actively seeking out the stories of trans men and women across the country and learning about the challenges of their lives.
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In the light of The Hateful Eight's berserk provocations, and Tarantino's seeming obliviousness to his manifest racial privilege, the idea of him as an authoritative cinematic voice on American race relations for future generations terrifies the living shit out of me.
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The market's obliviousness toward the RRR cut - China's central bank said the move would inject a net 750 billion yuan ($109.2 billion) in cash into the banking system - highlights concerns that monetary easing alone would do little to heal battered confidence.
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We are told that God still speaks but that we are not listening — suggesting a serious decline in the communicative power of the Almighty as well as an obliviousness on our part that would put a texting teenager to shame.
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These gaffes betray a blithe obliviousness on Damon's part to what the world is like right now, a world where people are empowered by social media to state their feelings,where they can make clear that diversity in movies matters to them.
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I think a lot of people are wondering what to do with this new knowledge of the quantity of survivors' pain, and in particular of female survivors' pain, and this information about a lot of malice and obliviousness and predatory behavior by perpetrators.
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Alexander, like many Darwinians, also believed that our frequent obliviousness to the tactical logic governing our sentiments is itself a part of human nature; it was favored by natural selection because there are benefits to having a sunny view of your own motivations.
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In its obliviousness and elitism, the Hillary campaign has come to resemble the "Remain" campaign in the United Kingdom, which lost after a critical mass of working-class Britons determined that the European Union wasn't the glorious civilizational triumph they'd been told.
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Among other things, enemies sometimes possess that annoying AI combination of preternatural perception and strange obliviousness — one moment they'll spot you from across an alley at some super-oblique angle and raise the alarm, the next they've gotten stuck on a stray piece of wood.
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Sweating through my tux among people I'd mostly just met, I felt so many times that feeling I long for when I get around a dance floor — obliviousness to everything else in the world but the music and the moment, one of my purest joys in life.
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He embarks on a tentative flirtation with a younger co-worker (Chang Chen), one complicated by the younger man's obliviousness—and with that flourish, Kar-wai evocatively captures the moment when one relationship is dissolving, that fact is made clearer by the possibility of another one.
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His father (though Less would not know this for more than a decade) had to attend a meeting of the Public Athletics Board to defend his son's right to participate in the softball league, despite his clear lack of talent and his obliviousness on the field.
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ANDREW KREPS GALLERY What Pipeline, a Detroit gallery whose name conjures political obliviousness and feigned art world naïveté has ringed the wall with the small, muscular oil paintings of mundanities by Mary Ann Aitken (1960-2012) — a Volkswagen bus, a cigar box, a checkerboard and so on.
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Whether it is from hubris, obliviousness or confidence in his own political judgment, Trump apparently saw no reason to behave any differently than he normally would this weekend, heading to his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, before rubbing shoulders with multi-millionaire pro golfers at the President's Cup.
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But For fans in 2017, a time when supermodels craft their social media with a team and Bachelor contestants arrive with "I'm not here to make friends" strategies, Banks' 2007-era honesty and obliviousness comes across as fresher than the latest episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians.
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McVay is hardly the only coach to have a spotter charged with making sure he is out of the way, but the coach's seeming obliviousness to Rath's maneuvers created a scene that, depending on your age, reflected either a lack of situational awareness or a remarkable ability to focus.
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It's funny, but when I think about it seriously, I'm not surprised that she's clued into family dynamics in a way that neither of the boys are; you're allowed to have a certain level of obliviousness as a teen boy that anyone who grew up as a girl can't imagine.
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And while this is probably not the place for cranky opprobrium, it feels necessary to call out the obliviousness of designers who presented collections rife with references to campsites, tarpaulins, tents and displacement when millions of Syrian and Afghan refugees crowd Europe's borders or wash up dead on its shores.
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Her newest project is "Rethink Shinola," a timed animation designed to be viewed on laptop or desktop (rather than mobile device) that lays out the contradictions and racist underpinnings of Shinola's branding, past and present, and the obliviousness with which the company parlays these damaging practices into present-day Detroit.
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Some of their stories exude a dismal obliviousness: A former Bernie Sanders supporter and ardent Bob Dylan fan — "one of the last true rebels," she gushes — busily assembles gift baskets for the DeploraBall in Washington while the male organizers do nothing to help her, scrolling through Twitter on their phones.
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There are other blemishes on this record, too, mostly about his honesty or lack thereof, including his lack of candor about trafficking in stolen emails, his dishonesty regarding his work with William Pryor, his obliviousness (at best) about Judge Alex Kozinski, his deeply dishonest acceptance remarks when Trump first picked him, and beyond.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann Warren Sanders condemns his supporters' 'ugly, personal attacks' against Warren The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden riding wave of momentum after stunning Super Tuesday Delegate battle ahead likely favors Biden MORE (D-Mass.) seems determined to slog through the race out of some combination of stubbornness, righteous indignation and obliviousness.
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The ghoulish victory lap Trump took after learning about the mass killing at a gay night club in Orlando on Sunday is completely consistent with his overall obliviousness to the fact that the boisterous belligerence and self-aggrandizement that helped him win the primary won't serve him just as well in the general election.
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"These aren't muscles Congress is used to flexing: Without constant pressure from activists they might succumb to the inertia that's defined Congress' posture on the matters for the last of couple decades, born from a mix of capture, wrongheadedness, and obliviousness to their own power," David Segal, the executive director of Demand Progress, said.
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There have also been many shows in which domestic workers or nannies are in on the joke, or delivering the bulk of them, like the brash Fran Drescher on The Nanny, or the characters of Lupe on Arrested Development and Rosario on Will & Grace, who often highlight the supreme obliviousness and privilege of their white and wealthy employers.
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As Elena, she draws on some of her previous characters—the preppy pep of Elle Woods; the competitive, neurotic ambitiousness of Tracy Flick; the ritzy obliviousness of Evelyn Williams; the wealthy alpha vibe of Madeline Mackenzie—the way Dr. Frankenstein drew on dead bodies: She has created a new and startling monster, a composite with familiar parts.
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But many people have argued that this particular series of clips was actively harmful, not only because of how Kim and her sisters casually tossed around the term "anorexic," but because this isn't the first time Kim has displayed an apparent obliviousness to the message about eating disorders, anorexia, and the value of being thin that she sends.
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Sadie, charming and lovable despite her obliviousness and general lack of life direction, is the living, breathing representation of everything that's passed Rachel and Richard by: She's young and beautiful and a bit of a ditz, someone who scoffs at her classmates who've gotten work published in literary magazines "no one's ever heard of," like one of Rachel's holy grails, Tin House.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Emails Disclose Trump Son's Glee at Russian Offer" (front page, July 12): It is easy to see why Donald Trump Jr. would love any help Russia might give to his father's campaign, but while we question his obliviousness to the issues this help raises, we should also consider why the Russians wanted Donald J. Trump to become president.
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Stiller assigns great actors with roles that are totally unlike their real-life personas; audiences love seeing leading man Tom Cruise as Les Grossman, with a foul mouth and glaring bald spot, and redeemed Hollywood bad boy Robert Downey Jr. as a self-absorbed method actor whose use of blackface highlights his sense of complete obliviousness to the real world.
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It's clear throughout the episode that Howerton, McElhenney, and Day wrote it to highlight the obliviousness of their characters, and the clear and present disparity between how their white dirtbags get to skate by under the radar while their black counterparts would have a hard time pulling off a single one of their shenanigans without putting themselves in serious danger.
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I am repelled by the artist's obliviousness — regardless if it's performed or not — to his privilege, and by the curators and organizers who enabled him, but also by the damage the work has already done and might continue to do when it comes to feeding into the idea that being detached from life by one degree is part of the package deal of being in the arts.
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As I chewed a Meatball Parm Sandwich ($11, excellent bread), sipped a She's So Modern cocktail ($12, made with Jim Beam, Amaretto, and Orgeat, and probably named after a song by the Boomtown Rats), and avoided a disconcertingly salty order of Disco Fries ($9, served with a sprinkling of desperate-looking parsley), I tried to parse the level of ironic distance and / or total obliviousness required to fully enjoy the meal.
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" That inner life encompasses not just love affairs — most notably with a Norwegian sailor, Adler Christensen, and forays into the dim and dangerous homosexual subculture of the late 19th century — but an allegiance to the Irish cause that baffles Ward, whose obliviousness to Casement's feelings for him goes hand in hand with his John Bullish denigration of Casement's Irishness, which he sees as "some degraded form of Englishness.
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"He liked the noise of business and politics, it was an adult reassurance, like the chatter of parents on a night journey, meaningless, fragmentary, and consoling to the sleepy child on the back seat" so effectively conveys a mood of happy obliviousness—notice how the sentence, rotating on the axle of its commas, matches the rhythm of the car that it describes without needing to name—that it takes a moment to remember that the noise of politics has been anything but consoling of late.
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