Sentence examples for almost total ignorance of from inspiring English sources

Two major reasons for the almost total ignorance of Spanish art were the reputation of the inquisition, and the country's increasingly parlous state.

Camila, still only 14, bore a son in almost total ignorance of what pregnancy meant, and four years later, her daughter Hanan.

With his profound knowledge of Greek literature and despite his almost total ignorance of Hebrew he tried to find a way in which Judaism could appropriate Hellenic thought.

"The first of them is the overwrought imagination of a sex-starved schoolboy, and the second is an almost total ignorance of the real world and how it works".

Five years in and I have come to the conclusion that the glum acceptance by the medical community of almost total ignorance of all things spinal is simply unacceptable.

The most prominent leaders, especially Richard Dawkins, refuse to debate on any serious grounds, and indeed they show almost total ignorance of the cutting-edge biology and physics that has admitted consciousness back into "good science".

"The polls didn't surprise me", says Paul Gilroy, author of a number of landmark books on race and empire, "because we're dealing with a politics of almost total ignorance in these matters".

My almost total ignorance about him, and my eagerness to put it right, was what tempted me into writing Explorers of the Nile.

Consequently the prejudice asylum seekers face is based on almost total ignorance.

The family's genial isolation extends to total ignorance of the changing culture around them.

Carrie Edel makes Miranda's total ignorance of the world utterly natural.