Aside from a reception held by the minister of culture, the anniversary transpired with "a conscious ignoring of Tolstoy," he said.
For the director it was essential that the lovers make a conscious decision to ignore the visa, as opposed to its lapsing by accident or mistake.
It was a conscious decision to ignore the UK because of the way your country has drifted in the last decade or so.
While Ms Sotnikova's style may have appeared over the top to Western viewers, the spectators in the arena went wild a reaction that even impartial judges would have had to make a conscious effort to ignore.
Every time a siren shrieks on the street, our conscious minds might ignore it, but other brain regions behave as if that siren were a predator barreling straight for us.
Her physical presence is so striking that someone meeting the director for the first time must make a conscious effort to ignore her looks and concentrate on what she's saying.
Dreams are the source of your sub - conscious, don't ignore this fact.
"To say that war is simply and exclusively a power struggle is to ignore the conscious differences of outlook that are always behind such struggles," Kazin wrote to Wilson, defending his attack in The Reporter on Wilson's "surly and sarcastic" "Preface" to "Patriotic Gore".
Describing human beings as "conscious automatons" seems to ignore the personal judgments involving unprogrammable ideals such as beauty, simplicity and appropriateness, particularly important in art, mathematics and science but essential to all human behavior (Putnam 1992, pp. 1 18).
Flummoxed, I got a hold of "The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage" and, to my horror, discovered that the paper's rash of apostrophe errors had not been the result of sloppy copy editing but a conscious executive decision to ignore the rules of proper punctuation.
