unknowing

Example Sentences

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In the process, Debussy opened opera up to the unknowing.

From Los Angeles Times

“For years we didn’t know what it was. By then, the government and other people had labeled this place Cancer Alley, but we were unaware of it — the poor, uneducated, unknowing people.”

From Washington Post

But this admission of unknowing — a disarmingly humble assertion from an artist who verges on the virtuosic — is a recognition of her subjects’ complex humanity that can never be contained by mere representation.

From New York Times

I served it to my unknowing husband and friends.

From Washington Post

In that unknowing is a suffocating anxiety, a crushing helplessness.

From Washington Post