Sentence examples for plain ignorance from inspiring English sources

Many of the barriers lie within, rooted in institutional practices, ideas about what does/doesn't work, or just plain ignorance.

Putting the two together smacks of more than just arrogance and self-righteousness: it is plain ignorance.

But Schwartz believes that Trump's short attention span has left him with "a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance".

"There were numerous pedigree falsifications in the 18th and 19th centuries; some deliberate, some due to politicking, some to plain ignorance".

The memory of that massacre provides a heartening reminder that there is a good deal of both hype and plain ignorance behind the claim, widely upheld among the political classes this year, that we are in the throes of the bitterest, most polarizing electoral contest in American history.

"The Devil All the Time," Mr. Pollock's new book, a novel due out on Tuesday from Doubleday, is also partly set here, and a prologue explains, "Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance".

Since then, whether through faith, poor advice, or plain ignorance of public psychology, the former favorite, ex-King Edward VIII, has detail by detail, chateau by chateau, lost love and ground at home... Mostly the Duke has arranged his own decline.

Where laws, health and safety concerns - and sometimes just plain ignorance - collide with a whole new way of doing things, there are going to be problems.