Anytime the world seems to have made a secret pact to ignore a subject, curious minds grow even more curious.
Ordinarily, a political reporter will ignore a subject's background when writing about issues being promoted by a particular political operative.
A "taboo" subject, "ignoring a politically inconvenient truth", threatening "community cohesion", "fear of being thought racist".
However, although prenatal testing-related decision-making has been relatively well studied for Down's syndrome and other congenital disorders, decision-making about subsequent pregnancies among mothers of children with PDD has been virtually ignored as a subject of study.
At least one Delaware judge, Vice Chancellor Travis J. Laster, has hinted that the decision to ignore a negative vote would be subject to enhanced scrutiny or possibly a court rejecting the pay package as corporate waste.
As his run built, Williams jokingly declined to talk about it for fear of jinxing it, and teammates obliged, ignoring the subject as if he were a pitcher working on a no-hitter.
The art historian Kirk Varnedoe used to give a lecture on the ruins of the Tuileries and their absence from advanced painting — most unforgettably, he gave it in the months after 9/11 — and asked why the avant-garde painters, hardly lacking in courage or originality, almost entirely ignored them as a subject.
It has committed me to some horse-related causes that I had done a pretty good job of ignoring; the subject of horse slaughter, for one, has become something I have delved into deeply.
After ignoring the subject for years, even Republicans are being forced to address it.
Ignoring the subject switch, she said, "Well, I bet you have plenty of girls you're dating".
