6 sentences with 'overlooked'
Example sentences and phrases with the word overlooked and other words derived from it.
• « Often overlooked in considerations of the Crusades are the 'Northern Crusades', i.e. the invasions of the various Baltic regions of northeastern Europe (i.e. parts of Denmark, northern Germany, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Finland) between 1171, when Pope Alexander III authorised a crusade against the pagans of the eastern Baltic region, and the early 15th century, when the converted Baltic kingdoms and territories began to become independent of their crusading overlords: the Teutonic Knights. »
• « Interestingly, Kepler did his work while holding a post as official imperial mathematician to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, who overlooked the fact that Kepler was a Protestant because he (Rudolf) was so interested in science - and this was against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, no less! »
• « One facet of the Scientific Revolution that is often overlooked is the involvement of (mostly aristocratic) women. »
• « Two other advances in transportation are often overlooked when considering industrialisation: paved roads and canals. »
• « In other words, many 'regular soldiers', not just Nazi party members, were responsible for killing innocent men, women and children, often for days at a time and at point-blank range. This aspect of the Holocaust is known today as the "Holocaust by bullets", an aspect that historians overlooked for many decades after the war. »
• « Waiting is a strategy that is too often overlooked. On more than one occasion prodigies are wrought with just a hint of deliberate silence. »