They were reminded not to ignore life along the way.
He refuses to ignore life's bitter ironies in the name of entertainment.
Like the Cursing Mommy, we're trying to ignore life's awfulness, live in hope, derive happiness from our work... and locate the goddamn edge on the goddamn roll of tape.
Amid an old man's pardonably digressive reminiscences (some of which will nevertheless feel familiar to readers of Buchwald's other books), he speaks feelingly about the realities of death: living wills; the grief of other, less fortunate hospice residents and their families; and the strange American habit of trying to ignore life's end.
In fact, as pointed out elsewhere (Papaioannou 2009), she is not open to (or she ignores) life sciences innovation and therefore she argues that 'In these areas, what government can aim to deliver is the social basis of these capabilities…'.
Rather than blithely ignoring life's complexities, the artistically successful Christmas movie acknowledges and negotiates them before enacting a miraculous resolution to the dilemmas they pose.
Positive thinking is not naiveté; nor does it suggest that you keep your head in the sand and ignore life's less pleasant situations.
Last week's article asked if you are shortchanging yourself by ignoring life's big rocks while focusing on all the little pebbles instead.
It can make you feel like you don't have any control over your destiny, like you're a slave to your wages or things beyond your control," they add, warning, "If you become focused purely on your personal projects you can end up ignoring life going on around you, retreating into yourself.
Most studies of marital status and health or mortality in older age groups have considered only current marital status and so ignore life course and accumulated benefits and risks of marital status trajectories.
