Sentence examples similar to blithely encourage from inspiring English sources
Yet Goold appears to have encouraged a blithely multicultural Verona, with multiple regional accents, and a Gypsy-Aztec dance fusion at the ball.
The US wanted to encourage Iraqi nationalism, but nationalism of a peculiar type that was hair-trigger sensitive and hostile to Iranian influence but blithely tolerant of American control.
Laura Howard's put-upon Annie and Sarah Tansey's self-martyred Sarah both fall for his charms, followed by Emily Pithon's high-flying Ruth, who ought to know better – she is married to him already but blithely accepts the fact that living with Norman is like keeping an over-friendly pet who "only jumps up at people who encourage him".
For example, even casual marijuana smokers can be denied transplants; the New York Times can blithely write about how saving overdose victims might have negative "consequences"; and for decades, proven interventions like needle exchange have been held up by political opposition, based on the (demonstrably false) idea that they could encourage young people to take up drugs.
Part of the answer is that people who should have been alert to the dangers, and taken precautionary measures, instead blithely assured Americans that everything was fine, and even encouraged them to take out risky mortgages.
By refusing to recognize that some of the UK's young people are blithely spouting racist, Islamophobic and truly hateful comments to strangers is no better than an imam encouraging jihad without proper context.
