These two events bugged me for a long time; the media's role in both – hysterically following the rioters, patently ignoring the peaceful protesters – seemed to be symptomatic of a new culture of news that distanced the already marginalised, and patted itself on the back for being so sycophantically close to the centres of power.
Mr. Bush's claim that we don't need any expansion in our military is patently unrealistic; it ignores the severe stress our Army is already under.
(It is of course patently reactionary to ignore the possibilities of free verse, but it's undeniable that it's a heck of a lot easier to memorize Dickinson than Whitman).
She was given no support by her local authority which ignored what was patently a deteriorating state of affairs at the school for both staff and pupils". Ms Menzies is now living in her native New Zealand and has retired from teaching.
This is patently ridiculous and More4 should have ignored this arcane code and defied the Palace of Westminster to take action in defence of the undemocratic ban.
"Suggestions that she ignored any of the physician- and government-provided protocols recommended to her are patently untrue and hurtful," Vinson's relatives said in a statement.
Unlike the NATO press machine, the Taliban are willing to give details, and while some are patently exaggerated or wrong, others have just enough elements of truth that they cannot be entirely ignored.
"In making his sensational claim," Mr. Davis writes, "Thor Heyerdahl ignored the overwhelming body of linguistic, ethnographic and ethnobotanical evidence, augmented today by genetic and archaeological data, indicating that he was patently wrong".
6 Given that the universalization of a theory is simply a euphemism for its canonization in patently local Western academia, the implication here is that, in the relevant parts of the world from which knowledge is produced, ideas emanating from Latin America are typically misunderstood, ignored, or erased.
Are the media supposed to ignore the outrageous and patently false things Trump says--whoppers that even many Republicans dispute?
The idea that you might train a surgeon to be clumsy, or an engineer to build poorly, or a lawyer to ignore law, would be patently absurd.
