Sentence examples for mere ignorance from inspiring English sources

Learning how to transform mere ignorance into mystery, simple not knowing into wonder, is a useful skill.

Does Brian Whitaker still think it mere ignorance when the major Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram follows a similar line?

Viewed this way, procrastination starts to look less like a question of mere ignorance than like a complex mixture of weakness, ambition, and inner conflict.

The barrier was far more insurmountable than mere ignorance or illiteracy, and it was cutting off not just the populace but also to use Arnold's terms the barbarian upper class and the Philistine middle class.

Further assumptions are that war frequently comes about because of the unawareness of decision makers of the possibility of settling disputes peacefully to the mutual advantage of both sides an unawareness due to mere ignorance, pride, lack of imagination, or selfish and cynical leadership.

As for that matter which they who hate thee urge the most, the words of Ariston, who, when the messenger told him of thy birth, declared before many witnesses that 'thou wert not his son, forasmuch as the ten months were not fully out,' it was a random speech, uttered from mere ignorance.

No conventional poll disqualifies an answer on the ground of mere total ignorance.

In sum, accepting as we do that obesity can have various causes, some assuredly behavioral and not all of which are associated with how one has been socialized into eating, it would be frankly reductive to link it all to mere nutritional ignorance alone.

In his 1852 address at the opening of the Athenaeum in Richmond, Va., the Rev. John Robertson spoke of "the piratical Saxons" as "mere barbarians" whose "ignorance" had made the Norman Conquest all but inevitable.

A series of small, incremental failings on the part of the cardinal gradually assumes the aspect of a grave moral lapse, while circumstances conspired to give mere arrogance and ignorance the destructive power of greater evils.

"…[I]f the agents, or those who choose the agents, or those to whom the agents are responsible, or the lookers-on whose opinion ought to influence and check all these, are mere masses of ignorance, stupidity, and baleful prejudice, every operation of government will go wrong" (Ibid, 207).