Sentence examples for ignorant masses from inspiring English sources

Some now argue that the administration should just ignore the ignorant masses and ram health care through using reconciliation, the legislative maneuver that would reduce the need for moderate votes.

Brooks characterizes this strategy as ignoring the "ignorant masses" to "ram health care through reconciliation".

They don't trim their art to please either elitist snobs or the ignorant masses.

It is an act of bravado, designed to calm the "ignorant masses", as snooty Ivorians refer to them.

"I suppose I am just one of the ignorant masses that didn't know New Jersey had a poet laureate".

Over at Foreign Policy, contributing editor James Traub explained, "It's Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses".

They are the moral centre of the book, not an ignorant mass to be civilised.

Jay Gould was not being disingenuous when he testified before the U.S. Senate in 1883 that capital feared the rapidly accumulating masses of "uneducated ignorant people" from abroad, who might turn against property.

There are clearly cultural difference between the West and the Muslim world, but the nature of the current furor — delayed, disproportionate and violently political — makes it look to me less like the spontaneous, righteous anger of a cultural clash than an organized, cynical move by Islamists to manipulate ignorant, unstable masses.

The opposition narrative goes like this: Venezuela was a peaceful, egalitarian, oil-rich modern democracy until the day the ignorant poor masses elected Chávez, a thuggish army man who'd previously sought to take power by force.

Former Egyptian president and pan-Arabist leader Gamal Abdal Nasser, the Sultan said, had "set the region back" by being "anti-everything" and engaging in vitriolic rhetoric designed to keep the masses ignorant.