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short-sighted
1. 'I don't want this short-sighted mentality
2. Avarice and injustice are always short-sighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt, in the long-run, the real interest of the landlord
3. The changes were utterly ridiculous and the Nationalists made fools of themselves because it made no difference! People still died at the hands of the SAP! Only a politician who could be that short-sighted and keep his high paying job, for in the real world he would be fired on the spot
4. diced, and short-sighted as ever
5. This approach to life is, however, short-sighted and unrealistic
6. AXIOM #2: Happiness is very short-sighted; but that’s good
7. This mighty shout of the multitude had hardly ceased to reverberate from the near-by rocks when Jesus stepped upon a huge stone and, lifting up his right hand to command their attention, said: "My children, you mean well, but you are short-sighted and material-minded
8. This desertion, however, was the direct cause of Aquilonia's defeat by the desperate Nemedians, and brought down on the Bossonians the cruel wrath of the imperialists—intolerant and short-sighted as imperialists invariably are
9. At first, the progress of the European War, as some perhaps short-sighted observers named it, appeared curiously static
10. Was Spalding as clever and as cunning as he wanted people to think? Or was he merely an unwittingly inept and short-sighted opportunist motivated by his self-serving interests who was used by someone wanting to keep their identity secret in the land deal? Perhaps whoever that party was really had other motives in getting Spalding involved
11. And that was the simple genius of the short-sighted man responsible for the largest mass
12. Whether it was a result of arrogance, short-sightedness, or plain old practicality, the
13. ‘’Maybe because it is about as corrupt and short-sighted as the regional administrations
14. natural beauty of Earth that was so stupidly destroyed by Mankind during past centuries through greed and short-sightedness
15. The past failed regime had too often bought votes or incited uneducated voters who knew no better to follow its short-sighted policies
16. Master Sergeant Vanderbilt had also appeared to be a short-sighted man without much imagination
17. “ooh, ooh I know, he says 'I noticed that my local pond is full of short-sighted barmen”
18. This is a more viable path for human salvation than silly, irresponsible “prophecies”, or the short-sighted avarice and pipe dreams offered by materialism
19. The problem is that all of us are short-sighted and have been accustomed to reins and blinkers and seeing linearly so that we maintain a pre-established life behavior with just one way, one destiny only, and one single choice
20. Harald Gascoigne was already there, peering short-sightedly up the street
21. Harald struggled from his horse and peered short-sightedly at the inner gatehouse of Wardour Castle
22. exploitation and short-sightedness have negatively
23. Am I not desperately, hopelessly horrid? Short-sighted? Impertinent? The readiest jumper at conclusions? The most arrogant critic of other people? Rich within
24. Wretchedly short-sighted, without her glasses she was helpless, and a prey to the oddest delusions
25. Denver felt amused by his short-sightedness and his all encompassing need to have control, it was something Oak thought he had, self-control, but Denver doubted it
26. When information is used only for short-term, short-sighted goals: you have the disappearance of any perspective or wisdom
27. Magdi often came to the rescue and though I knew he, his tightfistedness, his venality and short-sightedness were the main cause of my impasse, I felt terribly grateful to him at such moments
28. The short-sightedness of the Israeli intransigence in its relations with the Palestinians in particular, and Arab neighbors in general, is immense
29. To believe that somehow, we humans will be able to avoid this Law of the Universe, and somehow get away with it… is merely short-sighted blindness
30. In his mind, short-sighted human arrogance slaughtered those helpless creatures
31. Strange that Creation, designed expressly for Monseigneur, should be so soon wrung dry and squeezed out! There must be something short-sighted in the eternal arrangements, surely! Thus it was, however; and the last drop of blood having been extracted from the flints, and the last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, and it now turned and turned with nothing to bite, Monseigneur began to run away from a phenomenon so low and unaccountable
32. Lebeziatnikov said hotly, looking sternly at him with his short-sighted eyes
33. "What lies!" he cried impudently, "why, how could you, standing by the window, see the note? You fancied it with your short-sighted eyes
34. In that other matter of the pin of Count Pierres that you speak of, and say is near Babieca's saddle in the Armoury, I confess my sin; for I am either so stupid or so short-sighted, that, though I have seen the saddle, I have never been able to see the pin, in spite of it being as big as your worship says it is
35. He was always walking rapidly, and never seemed to see her until quite close, when he would look as if his short-sighted eyes had failed to recognize the approaching lady till that moment
36. She was short-sighted, and peered over his shoulder
37. She bent short-sightedly over the drawings
38. Seeing then, I said, that we are no great wits, I think that we had better adopt a method which I may illustrate thus; suppose that a short-sighted person had been asked by some one to read small letters from a distance; and it occurred to some one else that they might be found in another place which was larger and in which the letters were larger--if they were the same and he could read the larger letters first, and then proceed to the lesser--this would have been thought a rare piece of good fortune
39. If that sounds unfair, wrong or short-sighted then you need to re-
40. "Why, you poor short-sighted simpleton, can you not guess who this Noirtier was, whose
41. But the black beetles took no notice of the agitation, and groped about the hearth in a ponderous elderly way, as if they were short-sighted and hard of hearing, and not on terms with one another
42. Unfortunately for her she had lost her glasses in the scuffle, and as she was extremely short-sighted she was really helpless without them
43. And, in consequence, it beganto be freely conversed, that there would be a great comfort in having the sides of the streets paved with flags, like the plainstones of Glasgow, and that an obligation should be laid on the landlords, to put up ronns to kepp the rain, and to conduct the water down in pipes by the sides of the houses;—all which furnished Mr Hickery with fresh topics for his fasherie about the lamps, and was, as he said, proof and demonstration of that most impolitic, corrupt, and short-sighted job, the consequences of which would reach, in the shape of some new tax, every ramification of society;—with divers other American argumentatives to the same effect
44. They were both somewhat short-sighted, and when it was the custom to wear a single eyeglass and string they wore a single eyeglass and string; when it was the custom to wear a double glass they wore a double glass; when it was the custom to wear spectacles they wore spectacles straightway, all without reference to the particular variety of defect in their own vision
45. “But in Heaven yer Soul shall have no Colour an’ no Sex neither! Ah, damn ye all with yer Short-sightedness an’ yer Whimperin’ an’ Simperin’! Can ye not see that ’tis all foolish Trifles in the Light o’ Eternity?”
46. For about two years prior to its demise, investors were getting more and more nervous about the unruly unions, the shoddy workmanship, the short-sighted management and the increasing signs that the company could not make the cars the market wanted and was ill-prepared to make the profound changes needed
47. The longer she lived, the more experience and observation she had of life, the greater was her wonder at the short-sightedness of men who seek enjoyment and happiness here on earth: toiling, suffering, struggling, and harming one another, to obtain that impossible, visionary, sinful happiness
48. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but short-sightedness
49. Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn out the blade as it had worn the scabbard, the soul as well as the body? Did the veteran make himself disastrously felt in the leader? In a word, was this genius, as many historians of note have thought, suffering from an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of a breath of adventure? Had he become—a grave matter in a general—unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the roads to triumph, and who, from the summit of his chariot of lightning, pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer anything more than an immense dare-devil?
50. Unfortunately for her, she had lost her glasses in the scuffle, and as she was extremely short-sighted she was really helpless without them
