Name: Stephen Burt: Why people...
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Description: or "hit" can help us see how our unacknowledged assumptions can make us believe we are bad, either because sex is sinful or because we tolerate so much sexism. We let guys tell women what to do.

Jhumpa Lahiri

As a child, I felt that the Indian part of me was unacknowledged, and therefore somehow negated, by my American environment and vice versa. Growing up, I was impatient with my parents for being so different, holding on to India the way they did, and always making me feel like I had to make a choice of which way I would go.

American Author

Michael Ignatieff

I may have come into politics with an unacknowledged condescension toward the game and the people who played it, but I left with more respect for politicians than when I went in. The worst of them - the careerists and predators - you find in all professions. The best of them were a credit to democracy.

Canadian Politician

Freda Adler

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

American Educator

Colum McCann

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.

Irish Writer

Ann Widdecombe

It is a truth universally unacknowledged at Westminster that there is life after politics.

British Politician

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

American Artist

Gerry Adams

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

Irish Politician

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

English Poet

Use 'unacknowledged' when society or a group fails to see someone's value or contribution.

Cultural Blindness

Use it when someone's actions or traits are intentionally not admitted or accepted publicly.

Lack of Admission

'Unacknowledged' can apply to both positive and negative aspects that go unnoticed.

Not Just Negative

When feelings aren't shown or discussed, describe them as 'unacknowledged'.

Hidden Emotions

Often, 'unacknowledged' suggests everyone knows something but no one talks about it.

Implicit Understanding

 or "hit" can help us see how our unacknowledged assumptions can make us believe we are bad, either because sex is sinful or because we tolerate so much sexism. We let guys tell women what to do.

Stephen Burt: Why people...

 the ground controller questioned my altitude. Actually he was pretty accurate. And I said, no, you got to recalibrate your weapon. That's not the altitude we were at. By 1957, unacknowledged U2

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