China has been changing so quickly and dramatically for so long that it challenges even people who live here to keep current and well-informed, let alone people who live and work far away.

I was conscious of my ignorance, and if Mrs. Strickland was a well-known writer I thought it as well to ascertain the fact before I spoke to her.

You ought to scan some website to know important and interesting news as often as you can, or you will be ignorant in the future.

I may simply lack the frame of reference, but over the course of 14 years, I've never once seen an example of a Soft Landing.

Medical doctors can be ill-informed, incompetent morons. They are just people.