Wegner echoes this turning-of-a-blind-eye sentiment when he says that 'sometimes how things seem is more important than what they are' (2002, p. 341), but how things seem is never more important than what they are for those, such as the poor and racial minorities, who are being discriminated against on this issue.
One defence lawyer argued they had been "blinded by kind sentiment".
"How long are we Americans to be so careful for the pedigree of our pigs and chickens and cattle — and then leave the ancestry of our children to chance or to 'blind' sentiment?" asked a placard at an exposition in Philadelphia.
It was the same kind of personal hatred that survivors of Hitler and Stalin in Germany and Russia felt toward their persecutors," he wrote, adding, "I cannot explain this extraordinarily venomous sentiment, this blind rage that focused its attention entirely on one man and displayed not the faintest sign of forgiveness".
Which is just fucking ungenerous and blind to the true sentiments of these people.
It has become, for some people in some ways, a more brittle expression of national sentiment -- a blind statement of faith that does more to divide Americans from one another than to join them together.
However, they have instead chosen to turn a blind eye to the growing racial sentiment, choosing instead to punish those who voice opposition to such groups.
The singer was STING, and the sentiment had to do with blind faith and senseless conflict, the bleaker side of the human condition.
A revulsion against the Iraq war and a distaste for President Bush helped to blind people to the spread of democratic sentiments in the region.
Johnson began corresponding with West Virginia Governor William E. Stevenson, canvassing across the state to arouse public sentiment in support of a school for the blind.
