Sentence examples for vast ignorance from inspiring English sources

Van drivers who guard their vast ignorance with concealed Stanley knives.

MICHAEL ALMEREYDA -- I have to admit a vast ignorance of theater.

What lies in the background, glowing faintly, are the issues of medical science, the wonders it performs, the faith it inspires, and, against that, its slowly diminishing but still vast ignorance of the brain, and the mind, and the relation between the two.

Stebbing (1933) finds Reid's argument "suggestive" and "not unplausible" because the conclusion is weak (G4), while Mill (1843/1930) appears to reject the argument on account of our vast ignorance of properties that might be relevant (G3).

In my vast ignorance, I thought I would have a child who was a reader, one who would share my disdain of sports and fill both his mind and time with loftier pursuits.

At about this time, George Saintsbury, who wrote a comprehensive history of English criticism (finished in 1904), recorded his extreme distaste for Hazlitt's character, and, as noted by critic Elisabeth Schneider, found his writings "filled with vast ignorance, errors, prejudice, and an unpleasantness of temper amounting almost to insanity".

However, in a heartening, uplifting contrast, this week also brought the awarding of the Nobel Prizes, achievements signifying islands of intellect amid a vast ocean of ignorance.

"What it promises to do is attack the vast reservoirs of ignorance about relative benefits of different ways of treating different diseases to see which is most effective," said Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution.

Often, in the field of physics, that benefit is a measure of understanding of the very small or the very distant: a light shone into the vast darkness of ignorance about how the universe works.

Which is more a testament to the vast continents of my ignorance than to the obscurity of these vexing musket balls.

Senator McCarthy's speeches have been only the leading attraction in a vast display of backwoods ignorance, barnyard sniggering, and Yahoo anti-intellectualism that has, apparently, been demanding expression for quite some while.