Sentence examples for striking ignorance from inspiring English sources

A classwide poll of third-year students revealed that most of us had witnessed errors by superiors or peers or had committed them ourselves — and demonstrated our striking ignorance of what to do about them.

That year The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for giving a history test to college freshmen that showed, The Times's account said, their "striking ignorance of even the most elementary aspects of U.S. history".

In a dinner with the author, he refused to utter a word in any other language than English and demonstrated a striking ignorance of life outside the affluent social circles of Mumbai and Delhi.

The most striking demonstration of our ignorance about the benefit of blood types came to light in Bombay in 1952.

Borat's most striking features are his rudeness, ignorance, racism and chauvinism.

"Particularly striking is the level of ignorance and lack of information in the youngest age group," said Monika Vrzgulováof the Holocaust Documentation Centre, which organises education programs.

They revealed his maturity, ease and felicity of expression, wistful melancholy, and the ability to phrase truisms in striking, quotable lines, such as "where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise".

A special session on the topic at CGI offered a rare spotlight on this global issue, which has striking parallels to HIV/AIDS in the level of ignorance and stigma surrounding it.

The most striking feature of the original position is the veil of ignorance, which prevents other arbitrary facts about citizens from influencing the agreement among their representatives.

"To make room for worse than needless additions" from other plays, often not by Shakespeare, "many of the most striking passages in the real play have been omitted by the foppery and ignorance of the prompt-book critics".

"It's ignorance, sheer ignorance".