Examples of unawares

• For this reason, historiography was not caught entirely unawares by the arguments raised by the mass media.

• This form of ageism is subtle and often covert or invisible, and very often individuals and organisations practise it unawares, making it difficult to challenge.

• Philosophers who insist that lawyers all follow certain linguistic criteria for judging propositions of law, perhaps unawares, have produced theories identifying these criteria.

• This was an almost casual remark which seemed to catch even him unawares.

• Related, perhaps, to presence are those ostensibly quotidian moments - when caught unawares we are taken out of ourselves.

• Can one be ephectic otherwise than unawares?

• Despite ample warnings, the demographic transition we are now experiencing has caught some people unawares, and many older people now rank among the most vulnerable in society.

• We are caught unawares, surprised by sound, which may be the one remaining sensory dimension in our hypervisual culture that still has the power to shock.

• Having been taken unawares, it has then taken us many years slowly and painfully to build up our intelligence organisations in those places.

• The problems about the use of the green belt have been catching up on us unawares.

• It was not that the unions were agitators, stirring up people; even the unions were caught unawares.

• Like me, he was caught unawares by the sudden collapse of our business this morning.

• I can recommend this as an excellent substitute for a banana skin because it is lethal if stepped on unawares.

• The merchant seaman must sail at the hazard of a deadly peril, which might come unawares, and against which he was at first utterly defenceless.

• These are serious difficulties for industry when taxation is thrust upon manufacturers unawares.