Sentence examples for refuses to know from inspiring English sources

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While his aimless mind staunchly refuses to know its own contents, he can't — he won't — stop talking.

He refuses to know: "I will not be guided or instructed by anyone," he said after the Christmas bash.

Instead of getting to the dark heart of the tragedy, which is the tragedy of anyone who refuses to know himself while severely judging others, Preisser worries too much about preserving the play's classicism, which he demonstrates in the usual ways: through his actors' over-enunciated dialogue and self-consciously noble bearing.

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But the 50s were also about appearances: this very idyll masked warring agendas – things people refused to know and other, often incorrect, things they insisted on knowing.

They can refuse to know.

Tough or lucky It could easily be luck, but it could so easily be the unappreciated toughness of group that refuse to know when they're beaten.

Every time Putin said that he didn't know something, what he was really saying is that he refused to know.

"Any woman will ovulate with the full moon if she's exposed to enough moonlight," Deanna explains to Eddie, amazed at "the obvious animal facts people refused to know about their kind".

She is amazed by "the obvious animal facts people refused to know about their kind", such as that women exposed to enough moonlight will ovulate at full moon, or that pheremones announce their periodic fertility to men.

The bodies refused to know any justification or excuse – every body resisted in its own fashion, tried to escape, and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath". There's a great old Jewish saying: "If God lived on earth, people would throw rocks at his house". Here are some very cleverly thrown rocks.

Hence, truly, in the end, the choice for war by refusing to know the truth was Bush's alone.

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