Sentence examples for ignorance in which from inspiring English sources

"We had a fine chance to rub their ignorance in, which we often enjoyed doing".

Who does a white writer have to be in order to overcome the institutionalized ignorance in which we are shrouded?

Yale introduced him to Mary: Yale's wife is therefore completely unaware of how long the affair has been going on, and will presumably go to her grave in this state of ignorance, in which Isaac will be complicit.

Prior to last weekend, I had spent a full week firmly ensconced in the Bu'ah – the cynical name given to the state of blissful ignorance in which many of Tel Aviv's residents dwell.

There is a telling moment in Milan Kundera's resonant new novel, "Ignorance," in which the heroine -- a Czech expatriate named Irena, who has spent the last 20 years in Paris -- returns to Prague, realizes she has packed inappropriately for the warm weather and buys a summer dress, the same style of dress she "had known during the Communist period".

While Holdengräber celebrated the "euphoria of ignorance" in which he found himself vis-à-vis rap, West, whose euphoria could not be said to have anything to do with ignorance, praised Jay-Z as playing Plato to Biggie's Socrates — that is, of making the world safe for poets of the hip-hop stripe.

This is the case in "Ignorance Is Bliss," in which a group of European soldiers in 18th-century dress and a group of Muslims view each other with equal incomprehension.

While there are various forms of ignorance to be investigated (Townley 2011), one that has occupied a good deal of feminist attention is "invested ignorance" (Townley 2011) in which the ignorance is "systematically produced and sustained to misrepresent reality in ways that not coincidentally sustain patterns of… privilege" (Townley 2011, x).

According to a the Journal, his testimony--in which he claimed ignorance about vast swaths of his company's activities, and refused to accept any personal responsibility for the crisis--only solidified some shareholders' feelings that it is time for his tenure as CEO to come to an end.

Morris's chapter on the Panamanian adventure skillfully uses a favorite device of his -- short, intercut minisections -- to suggest the fog of ignorance and chance in which high-stakes power plays of this kind always occur.

Obstacles to progress have included residual prejudice and neglect in the white (i.e., European) community and the lingering consequences of the vicious circle of poverty, ignorance, and disease in which native peoples became entrapped after their earliest encounters with whites.