Sentence examples for life ignored from inspiring English sources

And, yet, it's done nothing for any of these visitors, and spends ninety-eight per cent of its life ignored".

It means becoming an object of prejudice and fascination, simultaneously hypervisible and invisible to white society, your emotions and inner life ignored.

Angy Rivera, a 21-year-old student, realised two years ago that the political debate about illegal immigration and its impact on American life ignored a big part of the effect on the undocumented themselves: the emotional toll on social life and on the search for love.

The release of the information came a month after a breach of Ashley Madison security was first reported, and after Toronto-based Avid Life ignored hackers' demands to shut down both the Ashley Madison site and another site called Established Men, which pairs older men with young women.

After all, this is a man who has spent his entire life ignoring signs.

But at least some gardeners who have reached that stage of life ignore such warnings as hucksterism.

Applying a mechanistic, Cartesian logic to water, the currency of life, ignores the ecological impacts of diverting and transporting water over long distances, or mining water from the ground beyond its recharge rates.

But Welty was not in the business of writing tragedies, and if she spent much of her life ignoring her heroine's warning, that life was permitted to run a far happier course.

He claims that "modern society has almost completely eliminated trauma and violence from everyday life", ignoring the routine experience of sexual violence for many women as well as children of both sexes.

"This wonderful guy," he writes, "who happily stumbled through life, ignoring its pitfalls, was daydreaming away, composing his next poem or song, singing away to himself on his way to the station, when he took a fateful wrong step.

In old age, Herz becomes aware that he has spent a life ignoring "the spirit of improvidence, of subversion" that powers people - and, largely, men - to arrange their affairs to suit them, to act selfishly, and to chisel out a life that will sustain them, more or less, until the end.