Sentence examples for prefers to avert from inspiring English sources

Where Thailand prefers to avert its eyes from unpleasant things, Singapore prides itself being straightforward.

This was written, Ozick reminds us, before the ultimate horror of Frank's murder -- something from which posterity prefers to avert its eyes.

Although it is thought unlikely to suffer in any Assembly elections it would prefer to avert them, since republicans are seeking a more smoothly functioning administration.

At last week's Supreme Court argument in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, which turns on that question, the justices' silence suggested they are reluctant to do that — and, in addition, would prefer to avert their eyes from the misuse of the statute.

One of the chief roles of the philosopher, from the time of Socrates, has been to discomfit citizens by forcing them to think about matters from which they would prefer to avert their eyes.

What really seems to be happening in Taiwan is the growth of what elsewhere would be called a national consciousness.Most western govern ments prefer to avert their eyes from the growth of Taiwanese nationalism: it raises awkward questions about their recognition of Chinese sovereignty over the island.

"I wanted to give voice to these slices of life, often painful, in a society where many men and women prefer to avert their gaze," she writes, in the introduction to the book, which is composed of first-person testimonies with her commentary.

We suddenly desire to see much of what we otherwise prefer to avert our eyes and attention away from.

Rather than rooting out the anomalies in its statutes, the state prefers to trust its judges to avert miscarriages of justice.

He prefers to watch documentaries.

She prefers to sleep late.