Sentence examples for altogether deaf from inspiring English sources

We can be selectively deaf, or be so filled with our egotistical desires that we are altogether deaf to our duties.

This made them completely deaf.

Or all deaf.

Others said he and his fellow interpreters — about a dozen who are assigned to shows through the nonprofit Theater Development Fund — opened Broadway altogether for the deaf, who either didn't go to theater before the advent of interpreting in the 1980s or else relied on seatmates to sign dialogue in near-darkness while they stole glances at the big numbers unfolding onstage.

And now that we know, post-9/11, post-2008, how extremely fragile those satisfactions are, is it time for novelists to jettison comedy altogether, like Desmond Bates in Deaf Sentence, and finally get serious?

Totally tone-deaf.

All the children were deaf.

Her brief essay about media and political responses to the 9/11 attacks caused a squall of rage and ridicule far out of proportion to her arguments themselves, which in retrospect seem tone-deaf and insensitive but not altogether wrong.

Johnson made little professional headway during the late 1980s and at one stage left music altogether to learn sign language and work with the deaf.

If only we the people could turn a deaf ear to this kind of politicking — or better yet, shun it altogether — our candidates might focus more on issues and less on personalities.

And deaf.