How To Use Blinker In A Sentence
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Not sure what a 'twofer' is, but if what you mean is that the '2050' scenario is ridiculous, then you're way into denial and every bit as susceptible to the blinkers of 'You Know You Are Right' as those you ridicule.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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Our lives become narrow, blinkered, limited.
Life Without Work
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Maybe his vision could have been blinkered by already knowing the players personally.
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“I’m not a blinker,” I lie, mostly because it’s embarrassing to be called a blinker.
Rules for Secret Keeping
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Carl waited with his blinker on at the shoulder of the road for a break in traffic.
The Big Cross

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The blinkers will not hinder his progress.
The Sun
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We slapped the blinkers on him in his work and I felt he showed a little bit of improvement but certainly not enough to think he could win.
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The blinkered tendency to derive all-encompassing, universal answers has dumbed down semantic questions, eclipsed interpretative discussion and blinded scholarship to the ways in which context could cook up hermeneutic content.
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It is no wonder with this blinkered attitude that the Capital of Culture bid was a non-starter.
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All true, but also all tending to indicate a certain blinkered quality to the “anti-Americanism” frame.
Matthew Yglesias » “Pro-American”
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Mine management needed to change, to rid itself of possible archaic practices, rigid structures and "blinkered" thinking if it wanted to extend the lives of mines, Mineral and Energy Affairs
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Signal your intention to change the lane in good time by using the blinker and if necessary, by hand signalling, says the handbook.
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The application of blinkers worked a treat on this filly at Ayr last time when she romped home by eight lengths in a maiden race.
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Width often leads to superficiality and depth may produce a blinkered approach and an intellectual treadmill.
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Jack only switched his right blinker on and turned towards Route 301 instead.
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You get blinkered by routine and one of the great things in this business is the variety it affords you.
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It is just that the racegoers look as if they might have been wearing blinkers when they got dressed that morning.
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You're not a horse with blinkers.
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
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What a myopic, blinkered clod their letters page editor must be.
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I have a very blinkered view of dance, it just has to be ballet, and then it really must be tutus and tiaras.
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Players learn from each other and the moment you put the blinkers on is when you stop learning.
Times, Sunday Times
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It could also mean the driver in front of you is going to turn left or that the blinker is still blinking from a previous turn.
Driving in Mexico
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He won twice for today's rider last summer and the blinkers are back on.
The Sun
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Yvon's Paris" offers dozens of glorious photographs, many filling two pages -- flat paper magically alive with moments stolen from time: flower sellers, bargemen, weary blinkered horses, a boating party in the Bois de Boulogne.
Graham Robb's "Parisians" and Yvon's Paris, photos of Pierre Yves Petit
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That came when wearing blinkers for the first time.
The Sun
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A quarter-century of industrial thinking originating from Europe and North America continues to blinker us from this reality.
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‘Easy enough for you to say,’ I'd reminded him, watching him shift the blinker on as we turned off the main road.
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But that seems a very narrow and blinkered view.
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Next comes the lighting rig: spotlights, blinkers, winkers, everything but lasers, blazing like Luna Park.
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I went out there with a clear head and the horse blinkers on to try to do my job and to do it well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Searching for a physical identity now, I feel like a horse wearing blinkers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Humanity had begun to chart the universe and impose its own blinkered logic upon it.
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I particularly liked the vehicle's side blinker.
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The gelding will be wearing blinkers or a visor for the first time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps that was always a blinkered attitude.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a long time, I thought this was just wrong and foolish on their part, but now I see a certain benefit to those blinkers.
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The individual members of this particular community are by no means all wonderfully multifaceted, but they are at least inconstant, generous and judgmental, visionary and blinkered, capable of extreme kindness and gross inhumanity.
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Humanity had begun to chart the universe and impose its own blinkered logic upon it.
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The cheekpieces he wears instead of blinkers would have to have a big effect if he is to land his first race of the season.
The Sun
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He is well weighted returned to this surface with the blinkers back on.
The Sun
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It could have been a global energy powerhouse by now if its dopey directors of days gone by hadn't been so blinkered in their outlook when it came to oil and gas opportunities.
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Winker (noun, singular): If both turn signals on a car are commonly called ‘blinkers’, using just one of the turn signals should be called a ‘winker’. on 06 Sep 2007 at 12: 20 pm Kristy Dempsey friendsied: the state of being overwhelmed with trying to keep up with the blogs, facebooks, and myspace sites of an ever growing list of online acquaintances on 06 Sep 2007 at 2: 00 pm Shawn
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Writer Unboxed’s CONTEST, CONTEST!
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The horse's owner puts leather blinkers close to its eyes so that it can only see what its master wants it to see, not look here or there.
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But not, as the blinkered writer of that article implied, necessarily her own independent choice.
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The application of blinkers worked a treat on this filly at Ayr last time when she romped home by eight lengths in a maiden race.
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We would do well to bear this in mind with regard to contemporary strange fiction, wherever critics blinker themselves and -- whether revering or reviling it as such -- class the strange fiction genres as essentially romance.
Archive 2010-03-01
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Mara slowed at a stoplight and switched on the right blinker.
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Mr. Zakaria, born in Mumbai, is himself a member of this elite class, and it is perhaps natural that he should share with them the kind of blinkered reality that sees no implausibility in this fabulous monster, no contradiction between some of the worst development indices in the world and a budding superpower identifying one and the same country.
The Zen Tiger: India 's Elections And The Magic Of Fareed Zakaria
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Paul's strengths are that he vacuums, does dishes, and remembers to turn the car blinker off pretty quick after completing a left hand turn.
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This perverse attitude says more about their blinkered view of what the country should aspire to be.
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We must remove our blinkers to allow a fuller account of Aboriginal history to unfold.
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The application of blinkers worked a treat on this filly at Ayr last time when she romped home by eight lengths in a maiden race.
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Deliver us all from filmmaking as lumbering and blinkered as this, a purported homage to female wisdom and bounteousness that is instead stodgy and convictionless.
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It does not require you to be a xenophobe or a blinkered nationalist.
The Sun
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I'm sorry that you feel I'm so clearly blinkered and entrenched and incapable of having a reasoned discussion about it.
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The Clinton gang, blinkered by their pragmatist outlook and policies, should not protest too much, for the altruist-pragmatist policies "dramatized" in "Path" also reflect those same policies as practiced by President George Bush's administration in his failing "war on terrorism.
The Rule of Reason
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His personality had emerged from blinkers and his sense of humour was being given a more free rein.
Times, Sunday Times
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This past weekend has shown once again how firmly those blinkers are fitted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tony thinks Brown's a 'blinker', someone who blinks in a stand-off.
Archive 2008-02-01
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His personality had emerged from blinkers and his sense of humour was being given a more free rein.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are blinkered by outdated stereotypes and we're reluctant to move beyond them, because at the end of the day we've never forgiven Germany for unleashing Hitler on Europe.
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If attitudes to sexual equality in 2002 are as blinkered and ignorant as they were in 1974 then we have learned nothing and this battle can never be won.
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He is able to offer a useful corrective to the often blinkered view of what the subject is about.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The five-year-old went from strength to strength after being applied with blinkers last season and emerged as one of the leading novices.
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The Jockey Club will shortly insist that the cheekpieces, like blinkers and visors, are declared on racecards - about time too, as punters know they can improve horses but don't know if they're being worn.
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A blinkered approach to spotting talent is regarded as one of the many factors holding back youth development.
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It grew ever more clear to everyone that the Minister was too reactionary, too blinkered.
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In common with many of the finest competitors, she says that she is able to blinker herself, block out the outside world at times of great anxiety.
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The blinkers will not hinder his progress.
The Sun
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The first-time blinkers and dreadful ground seemed to do the trick.
The Sun
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This is a blinkered view.
Times, Sunday Times
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Copleland council have always been blinkered towards below Bootle, regeneration for here is not on the agender except at a price. lowerer copeland have had to learn to diverify with help of residents moving in from away and spending their money on tourism, the goverment have not helped us, we are just a bit of land that stands between sellafield and barrow and they that they dont want us ..
Evening Mail news round-up
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Had a blinkered horse ever won the Derby?
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The Tories have also put on their blinkers, choosing fewer candidates from working-class origin and fewer Etonians.
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Tudor history has often been seen through English blinkers but how and how far did events in Ireland, Scotland and Europe influence the English Reformation?
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A central and crucial lesson was that people had to cast off the blinkers of local self-interest.
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Advocaat's patience with the Italian has appeared infinite, but one wonders whether pride has blinkered the manager's approach.
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That kind of blinkered thinking has left our auto industry on life support after decades of fighting higher fuel efficiency standards, on the grounds that such onerous regulations would bankrupt it.
Kerry Trueman: Seeds of Doubt
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These are useful restrictions and may deter bankers from the most blinkered of gambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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We took the blinkers off and were trying to get her to relax a little more.… it looks like it worked.
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As might have been expected by anybody outside the blinkered world of health promotion, moralistic anti-smoking propaganda directed at adolescents has proved counterproductive.
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These are useful restrictions and may deter bankers from the most blinkered of gambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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We need to be unshackled from the blinkered thinking of planners and action groups that all things in the Park should be made of stone and slate and woe betide anyone who says differently.
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So far Sam has said that he thought the driver ahead of him was making a left turn, despite the fact that the guy had his right blinker on and he wasn't in the left turn lane.
Mayor Creepy update (Jack Bog's Blog)
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This now seems blinkered and masochistically uncreative.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has this blinkered view in which the classic Darwinian question of adaptation is somehow becoming coextensive with all of evolutionary theory.
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Humanity had begun to chart the universe and impose its own blinkered logic upon it.
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To have done so would have been to tell another story, one not associated with blinkering workers and adding to corporate bottom lines.
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A mile later I flick on my left blinker and turn into the plaza.
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The media, however, implicitly blinkers itself to this reality.
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This year's fuelled by such high octane horsepower you'll need to pull in the reins and wear blinkers to avoid cantering off course in all directions.
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It grew ever more clear to everyone that the Minister was too reactionary, too blinkered.
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As we merge into traffic, he uses both his blinker and an arm signal.
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Our adversarial political system, coupled to a five-yearly electoral cycle, is sadly blinkering many politicians and commentators to one stark fact.
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He is able to offer a useful corrective to the often blinkered view of what the subject is about.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Decent ground suits and first-time blinkers can help too.
The Sun
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That is a blinkered view.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe I've been just as blinkered as the bogans out on the northern suburbs whose radio dial has been frozen solid on the classic rock station since 1983.
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CLICO Midsummer Classic winner Just In Time, who is blind in one eye, won the second jewel of the Triple Crown with a first-time eyeshield / blinker and has displayed marked improvement since that run.
TrinidadExpress Today's News
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The animal still wore its blinkers and the long reins were looped lightly round the riders.
THE WITCH TREE SYMBOL
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He guns for his fourth straight victory since the addition of blinkers.
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He finished 13 th and wore a pair of blinkers, which I now think should be banned in that race.
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But only the most blinkered soul could fail to see that the football team were as inexperienced as they were feckless, as bereft of defensive qualities as they were deficient technically.
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Nick put on his blinker and drove into a parking spot.
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The more enthusiastic their patronising attempts at conversion, the more they reveal themselves to be intolerant, blinkered misogynists.
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But her time was actually the fastest of the morning, and I didn't have the blinkers on her.
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He has plummeted down the weights and can thrive for first-time blinkers.
The Sun
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Perhaps I'm just a blinkered "purist," but I've always thought books were published to be read, not to be scrutinized for their marketing devices.
Writing and Publishing
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His car cruised down the right lane of the street with its blinker on.
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This is just some stupid road with a red light on and my blinker is saying that I am headed for the left.
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Favourite First Gold, wearing blinkers, was looking for his third success in the race and led for most the race.
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The interview process is likely to entail some degree of closure as the interview guide is put together, which may blinker the researcher slightly.
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As a reflection of a multicultural nation, these nominations look blinkered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such an unblinkered look at the liturgical reforms can, Msgr Ranjith writes, help us to be courageous in improving or changing that which was erroneously introduced and which appears to be incompatible with the true dignity of the Liturgy.
Clear Words of Msgr Ranjith on the Flaws of the Postconciliar Liturgical Reforms and the Need for a Reform of the Reform
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I was pleased with the others except Fadalko who didn't really take to the blinkers for the first time.
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And this was the fifties, the grayest, bleakest, most blinkered and culturally repressive period in the entire second half of the twentieth century, especially in small-town America.
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Humanity had begun to chart the universe and impose its own blinkered logic upon it.
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He had worn cheekpieces that day, but as they did not have the desired effect Balding decided to apply the blinkers in a bid to encourage him to put his best foot forward.
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Josh turned on his left blinker and rolled to a stop at the red light.
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Haig was limited by his blinkered approach to strategy and tactics.
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Foer works this mock-heroic metaphor to death, honouring his colleagues – ill-groomed and unsocialised wonks, who wear blinkers and blacked-out goggles when competing – as "mental athletes" or "warriors of the mind".
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer – review
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They've got a very blinkered view of life.
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This made him realize how trivial were the pleasures with which his father had attempted to blinker him.
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Your racist stereotyping may have blinkered you to the fact, but people and societies can and do change.
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Such narrow-minded blinkered parochialism can only leave these campaigners looking even more desperate.
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I was amazed at the totally blinkered attitudes of the individuals who see no legitimate reason to own a gun in Britain.
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It takes a special kind of blinkered view to declare some of them worthy of being adopted universally.
“That’s how I was raised” « Gin&Comment
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The reason for this blinkered view is nothing other than the mere habit of thought.
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It is about the fear of crime, oppression of women and how people feel safer to blinker themselves against poverty and homelessness.
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This kind of blinkered thinking does Microsoft -- which could be capable of pursuing lots of profitable strategies that don't involve fighting the future tooth and nail -- no credit.
Boing Boing: March 28, 2004 - April 3, 2004 Archives
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The man is ambitious, arrogant, self-opinionated, and has a blinkered vision that he alone is right, and that everyone else is wrong.
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It saddens me that so many people are apathetic to politics, but what makes me all out depressed is most of the few people who do care are so ideologically blinkered that they are incapable of actually processing information or arguments.
Matthew Yglesias » Monetary Policy, Dixie-Style
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Failure to attend to it often stems not from any Machiavellian wish to sanction some totalitarian outlook, but from too close attention to the blinkering particularities of specialised investigations.
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Brian flicked his blinker signal and descended the exit ramp.
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It should be the job of a university education to tease out the therapeutic and illuminative aspects of culture, so that we emerge from a period of study as slightly less disturbed, selfish and blinkered human beings.
Can Tolstoy Save Your Marriage?
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The Pipe team don't fit blinkers to their horses as guesswork.
The Sun
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He'd earlier been transformed by blinkers and made all the running to score at Haydock.
The Sun
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Then he turned his right blinker on, and I sighed in relief.
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Width often leads to superficiality and depth may produce a blinkered approach and an intellectual treadmill.
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Joan once opened her mouth to tell him where to turn, but he switched his blinker before she could say anything.
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Smiles For Miles has been transformed by blinkers and is sure to go close if he stays the distance.
The Sun
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When people are made to hear of the social violence that exists in their own communities they can escape the gravitational pull of blinkered egoism and begin to work together.
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None of these points have anything to do with freedom of expression or politics - the personal agendas that blinker your outlook.
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I will pass on a useful rule of thumb for spotting the kind of blinkered fundamentalist evolutionists with whom it really is a waste of time trying to debate (quite a few seem to have congregated here) They are the people who in contradistinction to being right (sc. in agreement with themselves) recognise only one category: ie, being a liar.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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It is absurd to assert that he was blinkered to the reality of those clearances taking place 100 miles to the north.
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ALTHOUGH IT IS an old idea, the conceit that faith can maintain its hold on the imagination only as long as there are blinkers on human vision still has considerable appeal.
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Eve is a feisty and resourceful heroine, and the earl and his wayward family are viewed as an intriguing mix of the blinkered and the humane.
Times, Sunday Times
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Haig was limited by his blinkered approach to strategy and tactics.
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Another time he used blinkers at the last moment, unannounced.
The Sun
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He really galloped well in the blinkers, so we put them on for the race and gave him Lasix, but I think the blinkers really made a difference.
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This comes as no surprise: after all, choosing a particular lifestyle does not necessarily entail a completely blinkered attitude to any possible advantages in other lifestyles.
Growing Through Loss and Grief
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The blinkers he wore for the first time seemed to have worked.
The Sun
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Horses do not improve with first time blinkers.
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This blinkered approach put supposed short-term financial savings before the needs of future generations.
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One in particular who referred to a 'moralistic' view as being 'blinkered'.
BBC Ouch Blog
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Blinkered voters get the parochial leaders they want rather than the worldly leaders they presumably need.
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I was wandering around with blinkers - that was the trouble.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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He can go well with the blinkers back on.
The Sun
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Thursday, the NUM accused the Chamber of having a "blinkered" approach to the industry's future.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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As with America's obsession with handguns, it will take more than a few high school pupil massacres to shift the ingrained attitudes of this blinkered lobby.
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The stable-bound horse, ribs protruding, eyes blinkered, stamped its hooves on the wooden floor.
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The blinkers are back on for this drop in distance but he might just be better suited to Flat racing.
The Sun
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Such a blinkered attitude could cost him his job.
Times, Sunday Times
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His car cruised down the right lane of the street with its blinker on.
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The blinkers will not hinder his progress.
The Sun
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Kyle flipped on his blinker and a few moments later we were heading down the road, towards the lake.
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This distance will be more to his liking and he is likely to improve again in first-time blinkers.
The Sun
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Drug-dealing happens every second of the day, and only the most blinkered authoritarians now think that it can be stomped out through ‘crackdowns’.
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Haig was limited by his blinkered approach to strategy and tactics.
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They've got a very blinkered view of life.
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Bonanza Boy will have blinkers back on and this may assist him.
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He thinks the talk is motivated by blinkered ideology, not a rational assessment of natural change.
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These are useful restrictions and may deter bankers from the most blinkered of gambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Try to hit the blinker and reset your cruise control.
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They had somehow managed to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put before them.
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This is the more lamentable as the title of the book suggests a less blinkered approach.
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The presidency is too important to allow that kind of blinkered mentality to govern the rest of this year's election coverage.
The Media's Man
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It turned on its blinker and drove into his driveway.
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It grew ever more clear to everyone that the Minister was too reactionary, too blinkered.
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As any horse-cab driver in downtown Cairo knows, a horse must be blinkered to navigate the streets, or else the traffic will cause it to shy.
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The report, titled Transitions, said that weak economic growth is likely to continue for at least five years and it accused UK boardrooms of being "blinkered" about the current economic environment.
Daily Finance Market News
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But Refinement, fitted with blinkers for the first time, returned to the winner's enclosure with an impressive nine-length victory.
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Humanity had begun to chart the universe and impose its own blinkered logic upon it.
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If the blinkers he wears for the first time help his jumping he could easily take a hand.
The Sun
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I am similarly concerned with the potential to 'blinker' Australian citizens who are thus more easily manipulated and restricted to narrow perspectives.
Peter Black's Freedom to Differ
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He is cantankerous, idealistic, blinkered, thin-skinned, romantic, a man of the ‘enlightenment’ but curiously unenlightened himself.
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The arts have continually suffered from negative, blinkered attitudes.
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If we had taken the blinkers off him and changed the colors on him, he'd have looked exactly like Star.
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This effect is exacerbated by aspects of India that complicate or contradict the colonial community's blinkered perception-a perception shaped by its segregation from the space of the colonized.
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Surely it must now be odds-on that ear plugs will have to be declared at some point, as is already done with blinkers, visors, tonguestraps and cheekpieces.
Cheltenham form suggests a race could be better than a rest | Chris Cook
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But it is not a blinkered and insular type of independence.
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The horse also proved the value of the controversial sheepskin cheekpieces which are now regularly fitted to horses who find blinkers and visors too claustrophobic.
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He has been transformed by blinkers and is unexposed over this distance.
The Sun
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The blinkers will not hinder his progress.
The Sun
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We put blinkers on her, and that seemed to work really well.
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Rock On Ruby wore blinkers for tactical reasons last year but he will not be wearing headgear a week today.
Times, Sunday Times
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I put on my blinker and turned onto the road, which was heavily laden with fog.
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Take off your blinkers and look at the big picture.
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Gordon Brown a "blinker", maybe that's why Ed Balls does that rapid blinking thing, he's trying to curry favour with his master.
Archive 2008-02-01
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If the blinkers he wears for the first time do the trick he should go close.
The Sun