Sentence examples for refusal to know from inspiring English sources

Her blindness plays both as a response to the weight of the unknown and as a refusal to know.

After reading his letter, I must conclude that what seemed to be a mere failure to see (Kant's Nichtverstehen) is in fact a terrified refusal to know.

If there's one thing that distinguishes modernity, however, it's not its vitality or its diversity but its refusal to know its place.

In the absence of other radical projects to challenge the status quo, ignorance – or, rather, the informed refusal to know – can be a powerful antidote to the efforts to reduce everything to a knowable price whose very existence already formats citizens into consumers.

The minute a new one strikes, the leaders we trust find themselves in an unending refusal to know why he or she did it, even when the reasons are obvious.

He also cites that despite a brief period during the 1960s when Thomas was considered a cultural icon, that the poet has been marginalized in critical circles due to his exuberance, in both life and work, and his refusal to know his place.

The Republican and conservative refusal to recognize evolution is well known, but the extent of it may not be.

The refusal to mourn is a refusal to love the dead child as an individual, the way those who knew her might have; it turns her immediately into a symbol.

His refusal to make known the gender of the person to whom his affections were aimed was, he reasoned, out of a desire to "universalise" his poetry.

John Paul II wasn't disgraced for his refusal to punish known abusers, including a priest who abused over 2000 children, he was beatified.

Rape victims in Delaware must also prove resistance "to the extent that it is reasonably necessary to make the victim's refusal to consent known to the defendant," meaning that silent victims aren't victims of rape at all in the eyes of Delaware lawmakers.