absentminded in a sentence

Examples

1. As to a second issue, whether the Court should consider the evolutionary purpose or the most recent purpose, the Court held that it should consider the evolutionary purpose of the display . " But the world is not made brand new every morning, and the Counties are simply asking us to ignore perfectly probative evidence; they want an absentminded objective observer, not one presumed to be familiar with the history of the government's actions and competent to learn what history has to show ."
2. On the other hand, particularly by American critics reviewing printed scores rather than performances, this was regarded as a " haphazard and sketchy " carelessness of vertical or linear movement, resulting in textures " perforated by absentminded silences "  an arbitrary and unjustified usage of clich�s from the " catalog of newly-invented and already-used-up effects " in vogue at that time, as well as an indifference toward sonority, intensified by a " gaucheness of the'traditional'passages ".
3. Several other specialists appear less frequently in the series, such as Ralph Winslow ( a lockman ), Wally Whistler ( an extremely absentminded lockman who once accidentally released a lion from its cage at the zoo ), Jim O'Hara ( a recently released burglar who still hasn't lost his prison pallor ) and Herman Jones ( a black lockman formerly known as " Herman X " when he was a black radical and " Herman Makanene Stulu'mbnick " when he was briefly Vice-President of the African nation of Talabwo ).