His films are original, audacious, sincere, and, in their creative energy, they express the filmmaker's aggressive indifference to those whose settled sensibilities he challenges (or, more precisely, ignores).
It matters because we are reaching the end of a year in which we have seen what can only be described as a torrent of reports of sexual assaults, paedophilia and abuse going back decades, many of them excused or ignored precisely because of a culture that made light of and normalized such incidents.
Somebody on your team might have a breakthrough idea today precisely because they ignored the passing parade of widgets and stared off into space for 45 minutes.
Members of the press with vast experience and deep CIA contacts became some of the loudest critics of the idea of attacking Iraq, yet many were ignored precisely because of their sources.
In fact, I believe it is precisely on these ignored, forgotten children that we must refocus our efforts as we approach 2015 and the deadline for meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
"In fact, I believe it is precisely on these ignored, forgotten children that we must refocus our efforts as we approach 2015," Mr. Lake said, echoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Ki-moontion that children "are at the very heart of all the MDGs".
It's the dismal visual equivalent of background noise, largely ignored, adding precisely zilch to our everyday experience other than cluttering up space.
Yet Saunders woefully (or willfully) ignores precisely the arena in which the cultural battle of the early cold war unfolded.
They look at scandals others ignore precisely because they do not think like level-headed and respectable members of the mainstream".
But to Mr. Eichiner and his fellow executives, that approach would be a mistake, since it ignores precisely the problems the vex G.M. and several others in the industry — the enormous fixed costs of factories and labor that become a burden when they're not producing.
In a real sense, short-sellers are marketplace lone wolves (or, more precisely, lone bears), ignoring the herd, trading against conventional wisdom and sometimes uncovering real corporate frauds far ahead of self-regulators, regulators, prosecutors or even plaintiffs' attorneys.
