Sentence examples for ignoring the world from inspiring English sources

By considering the world that Jamestown made, and ignoring the world that made Jamestown, it hides more than it reveals.

It is the work of a restless polymath ignoring the world around her and opting for an idiosyncratic, murky feeling that reflects her impulses.

Heins insisted to CBC Radio that "this company is not ignoring the world out there, nor is it in a death spiral.

On Mr. Roberts's watch, Icann was dogged by a reputation of ignoring the world outside United States borders and bowing to corporate interests.

One Polish communist, aged 84, "puts me incongruously in mind of a minor character in one of Tolstoy's novels - an outmoded Enlightenment rationalist who has outlasted his time, and who continues to putter in his private laboratory, ignoring the world which has overtaken him, performing his pointless scientific experiments with great clarity of mind and sturdy cheerfulness".

Dominic Fifield World Cups 1970 , 1974 1978, 1982 Appearances 17 Conceded 17 It is one of the most iconic pictures in Italian football history: Zoff playing cards on a plane with his national manager Enzo Bearzot,team-mate Franco Causio and the president of the republic, Sandro Pertini, allnonchalantly ignoring the World Cup trophy that sits on the end of their table.

It is a metropolis which studiously ignores the world outside.

Our love-life shrivels, the world ignores us, we ignore the world.

Sloane Stephens tried to ignore the world outside the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center for so long.

But its existence allows the rich and the powerful to ignore the world beyond its boundaries.

I changed my phone number, moved into my parent's house, ignored the world for a while.