Sentence examples for growing ignorance from inspiring English sources

No wonder we are devolving into a red-blue nation of intolerance because of our growing ignorance of our own geography and culture.

Educators, parents and others should be alarmed at "the nation's growing ignorance of our past and what it implies for America's future," Mr. Lieberman said in a heartfelt speech.

It is a collection that not only enriches us all, but offers a welcome corrective to the widespread and apparently growing ignorance of British art history that stops us valuing the real achievements of British artists down the ages.

It is always a mixture of excessive hubris and growing ignorance: hubris about the intellectual or racial superiority of the imperial culture, growing ignorance about the depth and complexity of cultures on the imperial periphery.

It also seems to reinforce the growing ignorance of an ever-increasing audience of would-be voters who can't seem to separate fiction from truth or science from conspiracy, who would be hard pressed to know the location of Burkina Faso, or who equate foreign languages, especially Arabic, with threats of terrorism.

But getting older means that your tastes mature, your curiosity grows, your ignorance of a crucial swath of Western culture becomes unbearably embarrassing.

Celebrate the true belief and comfort in watching your children grow, the ignorance of their own mortality.

Me wondering about my siblings, will be followed by a scene with my sister who was really growing up in ignorance of me.

This was to be the third school constructed in the colony of Vancouver Island, following Governor James Douglas' call "to give a proper moral and religious training to the children of the settlers who are growing up in ignorance and the utter neglect of all their duties to God and society".

Chances are that she would have added to the growing picture of gross ignorance, confusion and incompetence in the Cincinnati office, exacerbated by hands-off management in her own shop.

The approach we suggest is also a response to the growing criticism of cultural ignorance with which many energy implementation projects are handled.