Sentence examples for deaf about from inspiring English sources
"deaf about" is not a proper phrase in English
"Deaf" typically means someone who is unable to hear. It cannot be followed by a preposition like "about" in a grammatically correct sentence. Instead, you can use "deaf to" to convey the meaning of being unaware or indifferent to something. For example: - He was deaf to their pleas for help. - She was deaf to his compliments and didn't even smile. - The government seems to be deaf to the concerns of the citizens.
They also knew there was great ignorance among the deaf about how it was spread.
She has a self-absorption that's very New York, and she can be obtuse (unto deaf) about social nuance.
In retrospect, Mr. Foley said, the Republicans were "a bit tone deaf" about issues like Social Security and prescription drugs.
"But I think there's also something really tone deaf about the kind of definitive atheism of Dawkins or Dan Dennett" — the idea that "scientific rationality should be enough, and your attachments to other things are sentimental or unnecessary".
Several explanations are floating around Washington about why Mr. Bush's speech -- which the White House had advertised as the moment when the president would take command of the issue -- seemed tone deaf about the markets and the political mood.
People who are tone deaf about religion are, I think, like people who not only don't get rock music, but are convinced that its value lies entirely in its lyrics.
Given his many strengths, it's too bad Siegel is tone-deaf about Jon Stewart.
If there was something unattractively cold and morally tone-deaf about all this energetic enterprise, Monkhouse certainly paid a price.
Mike Green, a burly mail sorter, said management had been so tone-deaf about the anthrax threat that until recently, it did not want to provide gloves.
The consequences of inhabiting an objectified body are, in many ways, what #MeToo is all about, and there's something spectacularly silly, not to mention tone-deaf, about Sports Illustrated fighting fire with fire.
After a week of listening to Donald Trump supporters defend his longstanding biting remarks about the supposed weight gain and personal history of a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, who now supports the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, one might be forgiven for thinking that Republicans are tone-deaf about the experience of most women in America in 2016.
