In ignorance, they seek to belittle it and minimise its importance to the individual. |
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It's ignorance and unawareness of how people feel when you talk about someone's background and personalize that. |
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There are vast tracts of ignorance in my knowledge and really there are lots of other people who know more than me. |
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I hope that this is a matter of ignorance and not a well-thought-out, stable policy. |
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But the emperor is also a prisoner of his own ignorance and fear of the world beyond his home. |
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Let the chattering classes recognize their stupidity and ignorance and ponder on them. |
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There is such a great deal of ignorance of mental phenomena and physical phenomena. |
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Unless you believe ignorance is bliss, the discovery of the truth of any situation is a good thing. |
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Much of that ignorance is wilful, when facts are ignored and minds closed to reality. |
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I provide this here so that you may see the magnitude of the battle we are waging against ignorance and scientific illiteracy. |
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Indeed, as I have wondered elsewhere, how long will Americans endure the arrogance and ignorance of their own technically illiterate politicians? |
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We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. |
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Over the last couple of years, he had become impervious to the disrespect and ignorance of his classmates. |
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There's no implication that ignorance disqualifies anyone from having an opinion. |
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Non-Americans, however, misunderstand the true source of our ignorance about them, which only furthers our mutual estrangement. |
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The apparent inconsistency should not be interpreted as ignorance or a deliberate attempt to mislead. |
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Laurent Joubert directed his wrath against those who dared to trespass into the realms of medicine, despite an ignorance of physic. |
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Based in part on fear and ignorance of the other, communalism often gives rise to conflict and violence between communities. |
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I felt an overwhelming sense of fear today also, a fear of our ignorance and complacency. |
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Billed as showcases of glamour and infotainment, both are classic confections of ignorance and candlelight. |
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. |
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When he asks why she is in therapy, she blithely professes ignorance and discusses the finer points of gourmet cooking. |
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In any event, it would definitely not be nice to publish letters in order to display the ignorance of their writers. |
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They are material, viz., temporary, full of ignorance and miserable, and thus just opposite to the original constitution of the soul. |
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The offending publication was not made by the contemners in ignorance of the consequences. |
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How can one plead ignorance in the presence of this massive and continuous universal call? |
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It's been intoned mindlessly so many times since that no one ever stops to consider the utter ignorance of the statement. |
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Where the legal principle involved is sufficiently basic and elementary, lack of conversance with it constitutes gross ignorance of the law. |
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Thirty or forty years ago, in the first flush of the sexual revolution, such ignorance would be forgivable. |
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Belief in spirit possession flourishes in times and places where there is ignorance about mental states. |
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Postmodernists are disillusioned with this triumphalist view of science dispelling ignorance and making the world a better place. |
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Please forgive my ignorance and realize that the events and happenings are totally fictional. |
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Also, forgive my ignorance here, but has anyone taken prisoner and sent to Cuba been charged yet? |
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Communal forces thrive on the crass ignorance of the masses concerning the essentials of their faith. |
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You probably despise them for being blinded by their own material crassness and their ignorance of the world. |
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Celebrity endorsements of good causes are sometimes characterised by both ignorance and credulity. |
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It strikes me as the height of ignorance to overlook the fact the election was stolen by cyber fraud. |
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Error, obscurity, conceptual fuzziness, and sheer ignorance are part of science, just as they are in any other human activity. |
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It is in fact the dark evil of laziness and ignorance disguised as an altruistic urge and that is why you rightly feel anxious! |
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Again, I think the absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization. |
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I'll admit general ignorance on the subject and I don't have a horse in this race. |
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It would be a very fragile moral and political order that depended upon pretended ignorance of social facts. |
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Throughout his experiment in skepticism and probabilism, he struggles against the invincible ignorance that impedes his certainty. |
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The abuse and ignorance we deal with from defacers and defacement victims is staggering, and some of that abuse spills over into actual attacks. |
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Of course, our ignorance is so profound that little can be said for certain. |
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Such ignorance hardly detracts from the power or profundity of the experience. |
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It's no secret that he has proggy leanings, but this demonstrates a level of ignorance that is completely unexpected. |
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My ignorance of his demise may have caused offence, and I apologize for that. |
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Their defiant ignorance of the national welfare borders sometimes upon the psychopathic. |
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I cite these examples to illustrate the controlled ignorance of the general public at that time. |
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Is this a naughty punky joke, a cheeky punky laziness, or a tiresome punky ignorance and stupidity? |
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The ignorance purveyed by these programs puts young people at risk of HIV infection and premature death. |
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The soul is 10,000 times more effulgent than the sun, but the covering of ignorance is so strong that we appear to be like dead matter. |
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On top of that there are the human factors of greed, vanity or just plain ignorance that can creep in. |
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The senior agents also seem to employ dimwits to answer the phone precisely because their ignorance will create a useful shield. |
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So the errors in them may reflect my ignorance of the fact that German embryologists in Haeckel's own day recognized his fabrications. |
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The research also found widespread ignorance when students were asked what were the Gulags in the Soviet Union. |
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We hammered at the doors and used any tools that life offered us to carve words of hatred, ignorance and disillusionment in the stone walls. |
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We should enquire into exactly how far his stupidity and ignorance will stretch, what the history is, what are his motives and what's he hiding? |
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The fashion for equating chimps with children is based on a degraded view of humanity and an ignorance about animals. |
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What makes it so eye-popping is the astonishing ignorance of the law, intellectual laziness and political bias among so many of them. |
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Overriding the wilful ignorance of his past, he tapped into his present state as a means to retrodict what could have been in bygone days. |
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As a family, we have had to put up with the sheer ignorance of people like you for a long time. |
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If we opened it up to the world we would miss plenty of gems out of sheer ignorance and wind up with a lot more than 75 books. |
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Whether from absent-mindedness or sheer ignorance of the law, Mr Cordingley believes, most weapons are brought in unwittingly. |
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It's about populism and the national propensity for sheer ignorance and execrable taste in visual art. |
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As ever, his arrogance and ignorance grated on everyone who cannot abide him, and left those who adore him in raptures. |
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Happily, their plugs are configured differently or I would have fried my laptop in my abysmal ignorance. |
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The fight back against ignorance and prejudice in Ethiopia starts in a small warren of offices in a back street of the capital. |
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It sure looks as if he's faking ignorance to try to sucker her into making some outlandish claim about how the memo was a Democratic plant. |
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He just jabs us in the chest with an accusatory finger and hopes that guilt at our ignorance will keep us quiet. |
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You shouldn't be able to become a cop if your mind is poisoned with racism and ignorance. |
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Others ascribe continued support to widespread ignorance of the addictive mentality. |
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Directors can no longer plead ignorance, or whatever other excuse they choose. |
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So ignorance gave her a confidence in herself that she was not justly entitled to. |
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A strategic initiative, taken at the highest level to broaden the company's product offering, was broken at the wheel of ignorance. |
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Those who advocate other methods are again showing their ignorance, I'm afraid. |
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In periods of political reaction, innumerable forms of social backwardness, ignorance and stupidity come into their own. |
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Sidney's contempt recalls Lodge's low opinion of Gosson's scholarship, especially of his ignorance of Platonic philosophy. |
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It has a reckless disregard for accuracy, coupled with breathtaking ignorance. |
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By tradition, doctors do not like to admit ignorance, or that we're not know-alls. |
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He thus single-handedly refutes the Platonic theory of evil as ignorance of the good. |
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He obviously hasn't done his homework, yet goes on lamestream TV to demonstrate to the world his complete ignorance. |
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Now he is played by John Malkovich, with the sophistication of a Renaissance man, grown rich on other people's ignorance. |
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In the wishful shelter of ignorance or amnesia, an abiding melancholy tends to creep into the populace. |
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To say that the medium is inherently boring, repetitive, or juvenile is some straight up ignorance. |
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At present, this record of ancient history is slowly falling prey to vandalism, theft, tourism and ignorance. |
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He accomplished this by our ignorance and lack of understanding of what constitutes a legal person. |
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They were left to play in blissful ignorance until such a time, as they were old enough to understand the sexual facts of life. |
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That such passive ignorance and anti-intellectualism would be promulgated in a book review section of a major newspaper is truly disheartening. |
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The light of knowledge is necessary to expel this demon of ignorance, he says. |
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In the commanding staff, the ignorance, light-mindedness and thievery of the ruling classes found their expression. |
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It was a display of pointless truculence and ignorance and he was applauded for it. |
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It became a movie the entire family watched ritually in consensual comprehension of the continuing dangers of ignorance, hate, and violence. |
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You would find faith and righteousness arrayed against the forces of darkness and ignorance, tyranny and disbelief. |
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His ignorance is a pure ruse, comparable to the roughness of his seemingly foolish discourse. |
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What scientists frown upon is levelling arguments based on rank ignorance and logical fallacies. |
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In contrast to this seaside scene, on which the sun smiles, the illustration on the right depicts ignorance, ruination, and mob rule. |
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Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, this beautifully animated short ruminates on the topics of isolation, ignorance, loss and apathy. |
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Trusty aides always claimed ignorance, and, as far as I'm aware, continue to do so to this day. |
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But the truth was I hadn't a clue what an ecstasy tab looked like and didn't want to show my ignorance. |
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The tamasic category includes meat and is attributed to a state of darkness, ignorance, lethargy and inactivity. |
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Their dissimulated ignorance, unaccompanied by the imperative to know, provides a constant foil to her awakening interest in knowing. |
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Yes, knowledge is better than ignorance, but isn't North America awash with sexual information? |
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Common sense dictates that most people, awash in their own ignorance, far prefer to lecture than be lectured to. |
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The junior minister had only just been telling us that she was having no truck with those that would claim ignorance at this stage of the game. |
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A Labour Party member, man and boy, I am horrified to see so many of my colleagues vote with ignorance and arrogance in equal measure. |
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The general level of ignorance on what is good or bad behaviour is compounded by the idealisation of childhood. |
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He is innocent by his ignorance, a simple dullard who can return to his yacht or gated manse comforted by the knowledge that he is not a crook. |
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It is lamentable, therefore, that there is so much ignorance of this massive theological truth. |
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It was just a throwaway remark, but perhaps my ignorance backs up the original point. |
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The naivete, hateful ignorance and misguided arguments of his article were appalling to say the least. |
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This is in no way a send-up of ignorance and incompetence, but rather a critique of a world that can't seem to recognize it. |
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I don't think that we can do much about media sensationalism or the scientific ignorance of many journalists. |
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It is a country of freedom of speech, more or less, but the ignorance and the shame of the essay writer is unbearable. |
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I am a lost little sheeple looking for some guidance out of the rocky ravine that is my ignorance. |
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With our fear, ignorance, alienation, mindlessness, indifference, and fragmentation we do not realize that such beliefs are not natural. |
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The ignorance towards the HIV issue in India that she exposes is both shocking and disturbing. |
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And it's about the huge swathes of sin and ignorance and mischance that shadow even our best attempts at truth and right action. |
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Blaming their own ignorance, they recount how in the past they would pump oil overboard or let oil collect in their boat's bilges. |
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Social indifference or ignorance under the present conditions makes a particularly miserable program for artistic work. |
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Despite increasing knowledge about trichotillomania, ignorance about the disorder remains one of the most overwhelming problems. |
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I misspoke primarily out of ignorance, but that does not excuse misspeaking. |
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The antithesis of tyranny is justice and moderation and that of ignorance, knowledge and understanding. |
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Genuinely upset by the waiter's ignorance of dead languages my teacher grudgingly had to settle for ordering in the modern vernacular. |
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Fear of homophobic retaliation will prevent us from making allies and lifting the shroud of ignorance from our oppressors. |
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Under questioning, he claimed total ignorance of events and blandly refused to assist the authorities. |
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Instead, it just involves feeling warm and fluffy, making bliss out of ignorance. |
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But the blameworthy remain oblivious to their actions while wrapped in their blissful ignorance. |
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While thousands were hit by the blackout at City Hall yesterday, 18 couples carried on in blissful ignorance on the happiest day of their lives. |
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Sometimes it seems less exhausting to plead ignorance and keep our pretty little heads blissfully in the sand. |
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It contrives to combine boastfulness, ignorance, insecurity and hostility in ample and self-reinforcing measures. |
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He understands how his characters are shaped and trapped by circumstance, and that their circumstance can sometimes be simply ignorance. |
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This seems like a bold-faced lie designed to make his readers more righteous in their ignorance. |
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Behind the question of course lies a deep ignorance of the reality of life in working class communities. |
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A bit later they had proof of his ignorance when he told them to cast their nets in the deep during broad daylight. |
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With this anti-intellectual attitude, I ought to be mute every time I detect scientific ignorance in a movie's story or set design. |
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In rapid succession, the minister exposes her ignorance, selfishness, incompetence, and unhesitating willingness to deceive the British public. |
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They do not know that they do not know, and their unlearned ignorance keeps them in the dark about most things that matter. |
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Tcell ignorance in mice to Borna disease virus can be overcome by peripheral expression of the viral nucleoprotein. |
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Sheer pig-headed ignorance, nastiness, mean-spiritedness and rudeness in my opinion. |
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Knowledge comes of shared experience while ignorance and incomprehension of the other can be the consequences of time unshared. |
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The level of ignorance and intolerance that I saw expressed by my own classmates was enough for me to be nauseated. |
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I told him that due to his ignorance, his attitude and his unstableness, that if he wasn't careful, he'd wind up like me. |
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Poverty, social inequities, ignorance, sexism, racism, and unsupportive relationships may render a woman virtually powerless to choose freely. |
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Past, future, and present, these three times are imperceptible, an ignorance or nescience that is not real, only false. |
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Each and every further utterance of these feeble claims, simply illustrates the ignorance and contempt in which these people view the military. |
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The singer feigns ignorance, and makes a valiant if contradictory effort to keep up appearances. |
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But I never cease to be amazed by the stunning ignorance of southerners of our great city. |
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In my view it is this sort of indifference and ignorance to other people of the world that sows the seeds of terrorism. |
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Brotherly love never willingly leaves one to perish in his ignorance, errors or vices. |
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Of course, there's a difference between skillful intervention, mismanaged intervention, and willful ignorance of brute facts. |
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For explicit, verbalizable knowledge, the road from total ignorance to full expertise has three clearly identifiable signposts along the way. |
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Fourthly, the department's policy is that ignorance of the law is not grounds for non-compliance. |
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At the same time, through uncaring ignorance or malice, they brought about the extinction of numberless species of native flora and fauna. |
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There is a powerful subcurrent of horror at the ignorance of those who subject themselves to this sort of nutritional abuse. |
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If only you new the truth you would hang your head in shame at your ignorance and callous disregard for the suffering of your fellow Australians. |
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They have been struck by the politics of fear and ignorance callously played by that administration. |
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In conversations with junior-high-school children I notice their complete ignorance of the objective case of the relative pronoun. |
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They will never eat a hamburg in blissful ignorance of where it came from or be able to tolerate the intentional abuse of any animal. |
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The thicker our obscurations and the greater our ignorance, the more we fail to recognize the power and strength of the wisdom that is within us. |
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He skewers current politics, general American ignorance, cops, the top five bad ideas for tattoos, live-at-home stoners, and so many more. |
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Among the ancients, she begins, the oppositions to rational truth were error, ignorance and, most of all, opinion. |
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The republic was unlike all the countries of old Europe, which were based on oppression, poverty and ignorance. |
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All the brothers begged pardon from him for their previous ignorance and they brought him back to his own cenobium. |
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I am always being accused of being out of it, so it's reassuring to know that ignorance is a two-way street. |
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She said the offences were the result of ignorance and gross stupidity, and it was an extremely hard lesson which he had now learned. |
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Nice to see the newspaper's subs parading their gleeful ignorance of elementary meteorology, just in case any of us remained in doubt. |
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They say ignorance is bliss, and that proved to be the case because I wasn't overawed in that first game. |
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The Go-Betweens reside in a strange hinterland full of candyfloss and loneliness that hovers between critical adoration and public ignorance. |
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This is a dangerous oversimplification that displays an ignorance of the challenges that e-transactions pose to current legal systems. |
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If you are seven years old, ignorance is bliss, as this child proved when she strode up and cheekily asked for a picture for her family album. |
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To purposefully remove such material from the syllabus can surely only lead to homophobia or ignorance in the minds of pupils? |
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Because of the willful collective historical and moral ignorance of vast swaths of the public and the opinion leaders who influence them. |
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He seems to delight in being a churl, but his disrespectful comments about Babe Ruth demonstrated his ignorance of baseball history. |
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Some events are perceived as paranormal due to ignorance or magical thinking. |
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This ignorance and lack of involvement civically is a problem for a functioning democracy, which requires participation of the governed. |
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He faced tremendous ignorance among the clergy and hostility towards the Reformation. |
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In fact, all sentient beings have that potential of being free from ignorance and confusion. |
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Who are these people and why are they displaying their ignorance of such vital financial issues? |
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Those people who would take us back to an age of ignorance and intolerance should be exposed and shunned. |
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If it was purely ignorance, you'd expect the mistakes to display a normal distribution. |
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His enrolment was obviously greatly helped by his total ignorance of religion. |
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The biggest qualm I have with fair trade is its basic ignorance of comparative advantage. |
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Our fear is based on ignorance, they loftily believe, and can be safely dismissed. |
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When the author seems complacent about imprisonment, it is not out of ignorance. |
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The ability of Marxists to forget their history and yet rise above their ignorance is profound. |
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The legacy of Lindh is the confusion and ignorance that afflicts today's referendum. |
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One is amazed at the extent of the media's ignorance and credulity. |
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Napster thus couldn't plead ignorance of its users' piratical pastimes. |
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As I have been arguing here, middle-class knowledge and ignorance are invoked strategically and polyphonically in ways that answer many needs at once. |
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We can get angry about it, complaining that the perfect language of our childhood is being corrupted by ignorance and carelessness, but we can't stop it happening. |
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As was the case with Socrates, philosophy has sought to peel itself away from sophism by admitting to its ignorance, as if unknowing were a pathos to be confessed. |
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At first sight, the Atlas of World Art edited by John Onians is a truly original and endlessly enlightening book, the answer to numberless prayers born of ignorance. |
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His tongue-in-cheek lyrics and sex-drenched growling vocals, gave a huge smackdown to the critics and music industry tools blatant ignorance of indie bands. |
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What emerges most of all from this thoroughly satisfying book, however, is the tragedy of our own ignorance about early American responses to the landscape. |
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I went to collect my ordered cocktail patties this evening and was faced again with the ignorance and small-mindedness that permeates the society. |
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It had been a historical commonplace to view the long interval between Archimedes and Galileo as a period of unrelieved ignorance and superstition. |
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One in 10 asthma deaths in Scotland is due to inadequate treatment and widespread ignorance of the condition among health staff, a damning new report has revealed. |
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I delighted in the feeling of superiority those crudely inked daubs gave me and revelled in the ignorance of my classmates as they asked me what they all meant. |
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It's insane that you are losing friends in real life because of their ignorance on the Internet. |
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But it would be unfair to single out American diplomats for this ignorance. |
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But, part of it also seems like ignorance of her place in history, a glib gloss on events of incontestable consequence. |
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Certainly ignorance tends to make people defensive and a little insecure. |
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It appeared The worm had turned, even though his ignorance remained wrong side up. |
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It is also more in the nature of misperception and interpretive crudity, rather than ignorance. |
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It is a searing indictment of the Bush administration for its willful ignorance, ideological agenda, and above all, a profound failure of leadership. |
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But business leaders have pshawed those claims, saying that much of the debate by critics outside the chip industry has been driven by ignorance and emotional arguments. |
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Another common theme was a complete ignorance of modern history. |
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When universities board up their English departments, they surrender to ignorance and laziness. |
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Over the years, under ideal conditions, the kundalini fire of consciousness ascends to the higher chakras, burning the dross of ignorance and past karmas. |
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We must destroy before they shatter our being with their ignorance. |
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They're happy to point out our ignorance with snorts of contempt. |
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Capitalism, colonialism, neocolonialism, Marxism, literary ignorance, cultural arrogance, fear, and just about every other form of human perversity become the enemy. |
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After all, poverty, disease and ignorance kill many more people each year than terrorists, and do much more to cause suffering and extinguish hope. |
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The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction from physician paternalism towards willful ignorance by patients. |
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That view is based on misinformation, ignorance and plain bigotry. |
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The discourse on xenoglossia reveals the extent to which Spiritualism's intellectual meritocracy, is rested on a corresponding cult of ignorance and radical idiocracy. |
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The point is that if potentially important options are not addressed, the state may mistarget controls or implement a suboptional control mix simply out of ignorance of the alternatives. |
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The director claims ignorance of a world in which the common man and cultural elite alike come together to nitpick and fustigate every movie that hits theaters. |
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I see religion as only a way of asking unanswerable questions, of sharing the joy of a community of quest, and solacing one another in our ignorance. |
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Cameron’s folly was not so much his craven capitulation to the fools in his party, but his sheer ignorance of the persistence and the causes of social division in his own country. |
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His knee-jerk response is probably the product of sheer ignorance of the world-view of his political allies and their distorted perceptions of the history of the second world war. |
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It is in the culture of disbelief so prevalent amongst officials and in their sheer ignorance of the complexities of the cases they have to decide. |
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But the level of carelessness and ignorance manifested by the number and importance of miscues in Lincoln's War seriously compromises its integrity and undermines its value. |
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The Frenchman arrived at Ibrox as one of the brightest young coaches in Europe, yet was met with sheer ignorance and his efforts to modernise the club were resisted. |
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The short answer is a corrosive cocktail of desperation for economic growth at any price blended with sheer ignorance and, apparently, relying on the news media. |
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The boastfulness, the wholesale endorsement of the philosophy that was to bring the world to the economic edge and the sheer ignorance are painful to read. |
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I would like to think that the lack of comprehension on the topic is due to sheer ignorance rather than pure malice, which is much harder to tackle. |
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The superfluous verbiage melts in the face of the steam rising between Ford and Fisher, or perhaps Lucas's sheer ignorance of human relationships. |
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Why do you think that talking in terms of questions and ignorance lends itself to that kind of aliveness? |
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The anecdote is a perfect parable for the power and ignorance of artistic patrons. |
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They already know the answer, but they know by feigning ignorance they can create all this debate about it. |
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That perception is false and often reflects not just ignorance but also elitism and racism. |
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It deals with simple ignorance and benightedness, an incompleteness of education, a widespread failure to absorb knowledge. |
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Whether the Army listed Schwend in this category out of ignorance or for other reasons is not known. |
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It is a poorer person still, however, who wallows in ignorance. |
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Today, we understand that the era of political ignorance is over and that those in power who abuse their authority can be challenged and held liable in a court of law. |
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Many of us seem to entertain the vain hope that ignorance will confer innocence, that by denying the consequences of our complicity, it will be as if it never happened. |
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I think guns do kill people, though I suspect hate-mongering white supremacist groups that trade in fear and ignorance have something to do with it as well. |
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Speaking of levels of ignorance, I quite agree with Mick Hartley's letter. |
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There's a difference between thinking someone's strategies are wrong, and thinking them a knave who acts from ignorance at best, and more likely acts from malice. |
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His calamitous ignorance of his system's failure, plus his reluctance to acknowledge it once was drawn to his attention, drew shrill demands for his dismissal. |
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This may be misinterpreted as a new air leak, especially if compared with preoperative radiographs or in ignorance of the history of previous surgery. |
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There must be individuals there who feel sick about Howard's cynical exploitation of the Australian peoples' ignorance about refuges and fears of invasion. |
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Eisenhower was a prudential, common sense Republican, who loathed extremism and arrogant ignorance. |
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The dominant white culture is killing us slowly with its ignorance. |
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He could understand the sad plight of fellow countrymen, their exploitation, poverty, suffering and affliction under the mercy of foreign rule and darkness of ignorance. |
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Anyone over the age of twenty is occasionally confronted with the ignorance of today's youth of some phenomenon that was utterly ordinary when we were their age. |
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There was an alarming level of ignorance of the issues involved. |
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The Bush Administration itself, whether for reasons of politics or ignorance, has also given intellectual ground to alarmists in the climate change debate. |
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Nor was it ignorance that spurred him to fashion numerous additional devices that ensured his plague picture would kindle its audience's most painful passions. |
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Second, Moynihan betrays his ignorance by attempting to debunk our accuracy and choice of sources. |
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Reactions to both events are driven by ignorance, disregard, and dehumanization of an underclass of people of color. |
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Equally skilful is the progress of Waverley from his woolly-minded ignorance at the opening to the knowledge of the world he acquires from experience. |
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Frankness demands that any scientist claiming an advance in knowledge must set bounds on that claim by pointing out remaining uncertainties and areas of ignorance. |
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Some days, Mark, I really miss the days of my blissful ignorance. |
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This is blundering on foreign soil in an alien culture which they fail to grasp and arrogantly underestimate and they will ultimately pay the price of their ignorance. |
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She had proved a good leader, allying her people with the underground, yet keeping the government in power in complete ignorance of her true alliance. |
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He fell victim to his own ignorance, disorganization, and inability to deal with sexual-harassment allegations. |
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It is due to ignorance, confusion and anxiety that parents subject their children to a strict schedule, denying them rest, relaxation and enjoyment. |
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Sit back and enjoy your blissful ignorance as your brain leaves your body and you no longer care about the sounds of screaming and breaking glass coming from the other room. |
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Even more shocking than their aggrandizement of linguistic power is their evident ignorance of how English, the language of pounds and pennies, dollars and cents, works. |
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What I do l know is that I will never be able to plod along in a pink cloud of blissful ignorance or even vaguely pretend that I do not care about what goes on around me. |
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Another form of potentially blissful ignorance is traumatic amnesia. |
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But when the inquisitor asks for the names of backing musicians, the response ranges from total bewilderment to pleasantly surprised acknowledgement of utter ignorance. |
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Under the shiny surface there's homelessness, ignorance, insane people on the streets, hypocrisy, a certain coldness and strong individualism in people in general. |
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Maybe the political indifference or ignorance of the average American is not at root a vice in our national life but a virtue, a product of a mild politics. |
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This is a city that struggles unsuccessfully to shake the traditions of backwardness, authoritarianism, ignorance, corruption, and social inequality. |
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Overall they were guilty of incredible ignorance or unpardonable crimes. |
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However, I affect supreme ignorance of any possibility of their objecting to our choosing each other's company, and call frequently with the most unblushing impudence. |
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This might also help explain how his fascination with British history is so muddlingly mixed with a seeming ignorance of old English social systems. |
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They cannot feign ignorance at the end of a journey that was ugly all along. |
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Of course, he meant that as a proud boast, not a confession of ignorance. |
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Furthermore, he displays his ignorance of the creationist position when he implies that creationists don't think all the Galapagos finches have a common ancestor. |
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I can take lip, attitude or grumbling, but ignorance is too much for me. |
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Staff and students work very hard to improve standards and throw-away comments based on ignorance and ill-thought-out remarks damage progress in state education. |
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He died from a culture of gross, proud ignorance, fostered by a ridiculous prohibition that makes us all less safe. |
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Humor, after all, is a social corrective against arrogance, ignorance and pretension. |
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The butthurt in the comments truly is epic, as is the ignorance. |
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Her loopy, funny voice is a dead-on mix of desire and ignorance. |
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We are excused by ignorance or incredulity no more than by neglect. |
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No Byzantinist anywhere should be able to claim ignorance of these vandal acts perpetrated against Serbian medieval and, indeed, Byzantine heritage. |
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Is this sort of ignorance a sign of something missing in the education of these teenagers, or is it simply a sign of their own perceived indestructibility? |
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I would like to encourage the local authorities to go down this road to put a stop to the blatant ignorance many motorist demonstrate in relation to the rules of the road. |
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Science can indeed be seen as a progression of more and more useful metaphors, but as Thomas Kuhn has shown it is not an inexorable march from ignorance to truth. |
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He hedged his statements in a way that suggested ignorance or cowardice. |
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The level of ignorance this question represents infuriates me. |
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Child placers who acted out of ignorance were all too prone to confusing love with money, and those motivated by money obviously overlooked love entirely. |
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In situations involving knowledge far less frivolous than a television programme, I've been astounded time and time again by ignorance and insularity. |
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Whether it was actual ignorance, senility, or some obscure test, it's hard to know. |
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Zimba echoed Luo sentiments adding that he has travelled to remote areas of the country and witnessed the suffering, high ignorance and death levels. |
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But, then, ignorance of the facts is a great aid to belief in myths. |
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But we don't need the sanctimonious scolding of a student newspaper editor to tell us voting for a party, any party, is a manifestation of our stupidity and ignorance. |
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A foreign policy that speculates and spies on enemies from afar has given rise to unintelligent intelligence, a profound ignorance about what is going on in the world. |
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Their mask of brain rot allows them to genuflect in the face of ignorance. |
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This agnosia, ancient Greek for ignorance, makes a Google short trade irresistible to me. |
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Each American, in spite of benign or malignant ignorance, participates in this policy by his or her every day actions or inactions. |
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The fledgling physician learns to hide his ignorance, to dissemble his fear, to elide his vulnerability. |
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Know-it-alls Twitter isn't really a place where you can admit ignorance, or just be plain old dumb. |
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