Sentence examples for appalling ignorance from inspiring English sources

"In reality, the antivaccine activists demonstrate both medical illiteracy and an appalling ignorance of history," he wrote in a column in 2000.

Mr. McCain has already caused concern by his appalling ignorance of world geography and his tendency to oversimplify complex foreign policy issues.

It raised the issue of the appalling ignorance of many GPs and other doctors not only on specifically trans-related healthcare issues, but the general healthcare of trans people.

Jake Najman, a University of Queensland sociology professor and director of the Queensland alcohol and drug research and education centre, said the proposal betrayed "an appalling ignorance of what the problem is".

An exacting academic with no parenting experience whatsoever, he finds himself immediately overwhelmed -- by his daughter's disregard for his possessions, by her extravagant sense of entitlement and by her appalling ignorance.

Any comparison of this tradition to the reprehensible and barbaric practice of female genital mutilation is either appalling ignorance, at best, or defamation and anti-religious hatred at worst," the statement said.

And the idea that it could be brushed under the carpet as the administration focused on either Afghanistan or Iraq reflects either appalling arrogance or ignorance".

Pat Dodson, who was commissioner of that inquiry and is now Labor senator for Western Australia, told Scullion his fellow commissioners "would have been absolutely horrified" to listen to the discussion in estimates, which he said was "an appalling demonstration of ignorance about the criminal justice system and its interface with Aboriginal peoples".

There is an appalling amount of ignorance in some people's minds; but a lack of understanding does not justify a hate crime.

Here's the understated way in which the Gallup organization sums up this appalling pooling of ignorance: "Still, it would be hard to dispute that most scientists who study humans agree that the species evolved over millions of years, and that relatively few scientists believe that humans began in their current form only 10,000 years ago without the benefit of evolution.

Mr. Hoenlein said of Mr. Tasini, "His ignorance is appalling".