abysmal ignorance

The character was marked by an abysmal ignorance and complete lack of connection with reality.

They began from a state of abysmal ignorance about the pathologies involved and the impact on victims.

Such a linkage can only be based on abysmal ignorance of our political, cultural, and intellectural heritage.

"I must admit to an abysmal ignorance of the mechanics of making music.

It was for her own abysmal ignorance.

Bitran holders would no longer be kept in abysmal ignorance of their Charter-given rights.

American schoolchildren often show abysmal ignorance of geography.

I try to introduce people and attempt to cover up my abysmal ignorance of the game by making all-purpose statements, like "Would you look at that!"

How can them educate I whom evidence an abysmal ignorance of the very rudiments of grammar?

I am attacking man's abysmal ignorance and his impassioned effort to hide that ignorance from himself.

The problem is that the abysmal ignorance of science in Britain, especially among the educated classes, leads to a complete inability to assess developments.

For the rational man to hold steadfastly to his self-image ensures his abysmal ignorance.

They were fighting a big conventional war then, and there were lots of diseases and abysmal ignorance about them.

"Master, we regret that none of us, in our abysmal ignorance, possess the capability of reading them.

They also exhibited abysmal ignorance of who they were supposed to be, when they had died, and other relevant details.

In his abysmal ignorance of Deltan customs, he had bought it for her, thinking it merely a pretty ornament.

This suggests abysmal ignorance of Saladin's code in dealing with foes, infidels and prisoners of war.

Excuse my abysmal ignorance.'

Industrial poisons, greenhouse gases, and substances that attack the protective ozone layer, because of their abysmal ignorance, do not respect borders.

For example, his discussion of the theory of evolution is not only misleading; it displays an abysmal ignorance of recent evolutionary studies."

In all, Weisberg displays an abysmal ignorance of what libertarianism is, and what libertarian goals mean to "We, the People."

Yet he joked that the only common denominator of an Anglo-French Parliament would be 'an abysmal ignorance of each other's language'!

Whole student populations are engaging in protests and demonstrations against those who compound their transgressions of pollution with an abysmal ignorance of man's responsibility to his environment.

Me, a peer of the Star Kingdom, gloat just because your team got waxed while you and your friend the Colonel were so busy pointing out my abysmal ignorance to me?

Stalin was not of the opinion that German military successes menaced the Soviet Union and her friendly relations with Germany ...6 Such staggering smugness, such abysmal ignorance leave one breathless.