Sentence examples for rather than ignorance from inspiring English sources

His personal global perspective, based on confidence and optimism rather than ignorance, fear or contempt.

"Even when I was making terrible decisions, I was making them out of desperation rather than ignorance.

In a society as decreasingly religious as England, it is impossible to believe that most of the people who do not accept evolution are motivated by ideology rather than ignorance.

With this history to authenticate him, or perhaps because he is too above it to care, Mr. Kerry does excel at showing sangfroid rather than ignorance about the cultural novelties that television often brandishes to make square politicians nervous.

By 1989, the year Susan Conley's novel "Paris Was the Place" unfolds, everybody knows what AIDS looks like, and if Conley's narrator, Willow (a k a Willie), can't see it in her beloved older brother her blindness is engendered by heartbroken denial rather than ignorance.

When later he took positions at variance with most of the flag officers, he did so from personal conviction rather than ignorance.

Now he pours some of his unspent energy into an NGO called the Tony Blair Faith Foundation (TBFF), which has the stated aim of helping to prevent "religious prejudice and conflict and extremism [by] working with people of faith and none.... ......In Mr Blair's vision of things, religion can be a force for knowledge and mutual understanding rather than benighted ignorance.

It was likely the idealistic perspective of Facebook's leadership that led to the naivety about the potential for misuse of the social network, rather than willful ignorance or greed.

As Shtulman (2006) notes, this may not be a deeply-considered response, because "those who do not endorse the claim that Darwin's theory of evolution has been well supported by evidence tend to endorse the alternative claim (i.e., that Darwin's theory of evolution has not been well supported by evidence) rather than plead ignorance".

I argue that great fanfiction is often unpublishable, since it draws its aesthetic power from both its freedom from the constraints of the publishing industry and its embeddedness within a community of readers and writers: fanfiction, unlike published literature for young people, relies upon a presumption of readers' knowledge, rather than their ignorance.

Perhaps it is our expectation that citizens should be informed about politics that is the problem, rather than their ignorance.