Sentence examples for a blindness about from inspiring English sources

Not long ago, thinking in despair about the American inability to stop shooting its own children, I wrote that every nation has a core irrationality, some belief about itself that no amount of evidence or experience can alter - and a blindness about the need for gun control was ours.

She believes the entire repertoire of Eastern Europe's Ashkenazi Jews is very bad food, and that my affection for it comes from a blindness brought about by entrenched cultural associations.

Too often, though, it offers a road not to insight, but to a startling blindness about our own norms and assumptions.

The author of the Hite report, one of the most detailed surveys of sexual behaviour ever carried out, says doctors, therapists and the public share a collective blindness about this simple anatomical fact which determines the way in which most women achieve orgasm.

Although "On a Certain Blindness" is about toleration and the appreciation of different points of view, James sets out his own romantic point of view in his choice of heroes in the essay: Wordsworth and Shelley, Emerson, and W. H. Hudson, all of whom are said to have a sense of the "limitless significance in natural things" (TT 244).

On a trip to Rwanda last year Mr Sarkozy visited the Gisozi genocide memorial and acknowledged that France had made "a grave error of judgment" and displayed a "kind of blindness" about the genocidal intentions of the previous (French-speaking) Rwandan government.

Stagnation in the economy and "stalemation" in the political system stem from a collapse of imagination and increasing blindness about what a culture is supposed to cultivate and what a civil society is truly about.

A REPORTER AT LARGE about victims of a blindness apparently incurred during the Cambodian Holocaust as a psychological disfigurement.

By Alec Wilkinson The New Yorker, January 24 , 1994P. 52 A REPORTER AT LARGE about victims of a blindness apparently incurred during the Cambodian Holocaust as a psychological disfigurement.

I think the show is partly a comment on American blindness about what Africa is actually like.

They reflect a profound and willful ideological blindness about the risks that climate change will have globally and locally in Australia.