Ignore

Examples

• To put it mildly, is it ever safe to ignore them entirely in our thinking? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We ignore the prospective reference just because it is so irretrievably implied. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Try to ignore them or box them up, and they will burst forth destructively. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The method proposed ignores the human source: by a kind of poetic justice the great crowd of men will ignore the method. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I began to feel the force of Mr. John Hobson's remark that if practical workers for social and industrial reforms continue to ignore principles . Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If a woman's going to ignore her pearls, they want to be better than anybody else's--and so it is with everything else. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Now this limited conception of sex has had a disastrous effect: it has forced the Commission to ignore the sexual impulse in discussing a sexual problem. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• All this time Gerald had been completely ignored. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Graham, however, must go: his was a profession whose claims are neither to be ignored nor deferred. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The heavy, fair young man ignored her completely; he was really afraid of her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Miss Van Campen ignored the actual question. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He had ignored Gerald as much as possible, leaving him alone. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But they ignored him, as, chattering without heed, they set to mount the second flight. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He had ignored the whole of the industrial sea which surged in coal-blackened tides against the grounds of the house. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Yet many of the philosophic schools of method which have been mentioned transform the ignoring into a virtual denial. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But no respect is due to anyone who sets out to reform the world by ignoring its quality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I advised that he go on filling the silo, ignoring the temperature question entirely. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The wounded, sardonic young man moved away, ignoring his bleeding hand in the most conspicuous fashion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Both Birkin and Gerald disliked him, Gerald ignoring him with some contempt, Birkin exasperated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• By crossing above, Lee is cut off from all chance of ignoring Richmond and going north on a raid. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I have no claim to know them, Selden answered, ignoring her tone; no claim to offer any comment or suggestion beyond the one I have already made. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The method proposed ignores the human source: by a kind of poetic justice the great crowd of men will ignore the method. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Graham Wallas touched the cause of the trouble when he pointed out that political science to-day discusses institutions and ignores the nature of the men who make and live under them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Jealousy hot as the sun above the line, rage destructive as the tropic storm, the clime of your sensations ignores--as yet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• For notice how it ignores human wants and human powers--how it subordinates people to a rigid formula. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The latter makes the momentary act a measure of value, and ignores the connections of our personal action with the energies of the environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Checker: Merle