In this sense, they were unwitting pioneers.
Nonetheless, this misunderstanding was an indirect and unwitting tribute to his talent, for both are powerful novels dramatizing such lifelike protagonists that the message gets lost.
My unwitting comment about her feet brought back the painful memory of the destruction of her self-image but also implicitly gave her "permission" to pursue having children.
In the worst case, it might involve the unwitting exposition of an environmentally or functionally determinist analytical viewpoint of a type which has largely been rejected by the archaeological community.
If even unwitting or coerced harborers are the enemy, then the diseased are enemies in the war against disease.
The notion of offence can include" unwitting" offences such as motor accidents in which no one is to blame.
The only real problem with this analysis is that it assumes that this is an unwitting decision by the individuals involved.
Many astrobiologists are either witting or unwitting biological determinists.
