Sentence examples for Willfully blinded from inspiring English sources

According to the trustee, Mr. Merkin "willfully blinded" himself to numerous indications that Mr. Madoff was a con man.

Second, unlike the Germans, the French failed to assimilate their intelligence with operational planning and thus willfully blinded themselves to much that was going on.

Taken together, the evidence was more than sufficient for a jury to find that Pentalpha subjectively believed there was a high probability that SEB's fryer was patented and took deliberate steps to avoid knowing that fact, and that it therefore willfully blinded itself to the infringing nature of Sunbeam's sales.

Lowell's vision of Agamemnon the man (described in a stage note as "kindly yet terrifying, a natural ruler, very practiced and alert at it, yet invincibly and almost willfully blinded to his danger") feels consistent with the clipped yet graceful, brisk cadences of his translation.

I admit I look forward to the moment when other passengers, searching for a good seat, or any seat at all on the busiest days, stop anxiously prowling the quiet-car aisle, the moment when they have all settled elsewhere, including the ones who willfully blinded themselves to the open seat beside me or were unconvinced of its availability when they passed by.

Ezra Merkin, a prominent Wall Street financier who had earned a fortune investing his clients' money with Bernard L. Madoff, "willfully blinded" himself to numerous indications that Mr. Madoff was a con man, according to new claims in a lawsuit filed on Friday in Federal District Court in Manhattan by the trustee for victims of Mr. Madoff's fraud.

In her novel "Amazon Fever," Amy Bishop describes the father of her heroine as "willfully blind," and wonders whether that blindness might make him, on some level, "complicit".

Was I negligent, even willfully blind?

But Republicans are willfully blind to this reality.

"The key people are criminals, liars, or willfully blind..."...

Those who did not see the risk were, in many cases, willfully blind.