Literary notes about unnoticed (AI summary)
The word "unnoticed" is employed in literature as a subtle device to highlight what slips beyond the grasp of immediate perception—whether it be a fleeting emotional nuance, a character’s quiet disappearance, or an entire sequence of events that elude conscious awareness. In narratives, it can emphasize the weight of neglect or the irony of being overlooked, as when an insult is too potent to be ignored yet still goes unnoticed ([1]), or when a party’s act of rashness yields consequences that simply must not pass unnoticed ([2]). It also operates on a temporal level, allowing moments to drift by, unmarked in time until their significance is later revealed ([3], [4]). At times, unnoticed actions signal profound narrative shifts or unanticipated outcomes, enriching the texture of the story with a layer of subdued intensity ([5], [6]).
- They couldn't let such insults go unnoticed.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey - The successful rashness of a party of Franks was attended, however, with such memorable consequences, that it ought not to be passed unnoticed.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - He sometimes told her the story of some tale or novel he had been reading, and then two or three hours passed unnoticed like a minute.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The young man lay there minute after minute, as time glided away unnoticed; for he was very tired, and his repose was sweet to him.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - Gradually, unnoticed, all these persons began to disappear and a single question, that of the closed door, superseded all else.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - 'This also,' said he, replying to Montoni's last words, 'this also, shall not pass unnoticed.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
