How To Use Clear-eyed In A Sentence
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Although Jameson is clear-eyed about the corrosive effects of modernity, his methodology nevertheless seemed to require his allegiance to secularization and to convergence theories of modernization; moreover, the acuity and insight of the readings produced by this methodology served to justify that faith a posteriori.
Introduction
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But if we're going to cut and run, let's at least be honest about what we're doing and clear-eyed about the consequences.
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They were of many breeds, but their common life had formed of them a certain type, -- a lean and wiry type, with trail-hardened muscles, and sun-browned faces, and untroubled souls which gazed frankly forth, clear-eyed and steady.
An Odyssey of the North
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Hence the need for real realism, for a view more clear-eyed and hard-nosed than we've had before.
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But any clear-eyed look at the man and his record suggest that my physical safety is not guaranteed.
Times, Sunday Times
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UC-Berkeley psychologist Robert MacCoun may be the only person on earth as clear-eyed on this subject as I am.
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Thanks to a clear-eyed reader, the dossier link is here.
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While I gained a more clear-eyed view of today's corporate media realities, it was somewhat sad to lose the illusions I had harbored up until then.
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A few may go off the deep end screaming about human rights, but there are others which are both clear-eyed and clear-headed while being concerned about human rights.
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To those who lionise him, he is a clear-eyed defender of faith and nationhood, a speaker of truth in a time of deceivers.
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Such a clear-eyed perspective as offered by a leading economist is refreshing, welcome and must surely add to the voice of activists and advocacy groups around the world.
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But she, as keeper of the home, is more clear-eyed.
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This new volume, Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama, is a clear-eyed look at the Vietnam War's fateful consequences -- especially subsequent wars -- up until the present in Afghanistan.
Jamie Stiehm: The Vietnam War Ghost: Does It Still Live in Obama's White House?
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President Barack Obama has eulogized U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke as a clear-eyed realist whose legacy of peace reaches around the world.
World Leaders, Officials Honor Late US Diplomat Holbrooke
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The report is a clear-eyed look at what has to be done.
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You have to make a clear-eyed assessment of the disaster's impact on your business over the next year.
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From a dog you get stolid clear-eyed constancy: we belong together and that's how it is.
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A few may go off the deep end screaming about human rights, but there are others which are both clear-eyed and clear-headed while being concerned about human rights.
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It's nice to find a balanced, clear-eyed appreciation of the species in all their agony and ecstasy.
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Hamm even has his characters suggest that all law enforcement personnel dealing with refugee women be chemically castrated, which is a neat addition to the story in that it creates another point of conflict between the male characters' intellectual understanding of their predicament, and of the danger they pose to their loved ones, and their biological nature--ultimately, only the most conscientious and clear-eyed male character chooses the treatment***.
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The poverty of his early years hence inscribed the Tramp's trademark costume, a creative imitation of formal dinner dress suggesting the authoritative adult reimagined by a clear-eyed child.
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The article is one of the more clear-eyed I have seen.
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But I think we should be clear-eyed about both the costs and the benefits of copyright law, and both the costs and benefits of the alternatives.
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She had always steeled herself for economic collapse, but in the end her decision to retire was based on the prospect of other, and, in her clear-eyed view, insurmountable, challenges.
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A committed writer since the mid-1960s, she has been equally clear-eyed about the publishing world, a world that has only recently brought her the full measure of respect long accorded her by serious readers.
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Even at a time when a jaded public will cheerily presume the worst about its ‘upstanding’ figures, this clear-eyed dissection of a lie shows just how much the truth can hurt.
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She is a clear-eyed, athletic woman in her forties and one of the few certified tree-climbing teachers in the country.
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The main character, a Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie, finds herself living alone in Tokyo, almost penniless, friendless and yet a compassionate but clear-eyed observer of Japanese culture and customs.
Reading Japan
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A few may go off the deep end screaming about human rights, but there are others which are both clear-eyed and clear-headed while being concerned about human rights.
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But Gilbert has given the antiquated institution a thorough once-over, and the clear-eyed primer is a must-read for any modern woman contemplating a trip down the aisle.
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert: Book summary
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In the Star interview a day later, he said it's important to discuss the Canadian family in clear-eyed, "unsentimental" terms.
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Small and slim, it is portable, pocketable, and, once finished, should be left in a coffee shop to grow tatty with attention or abandoned in a pub where its clear-eyed wisdom might seep into the smoky air.
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Cullen often dwells on the innocence and clear-eyed religiousness of his youth - the holy water the family blessed themselves with before leaving home, attending Mass every morning.
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Their previously clear-eyed look of adoration is now decidedly jaundiced.
Times, Sunday Times
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And yet, he was just turned forty was clear-eyed, calm-hearted, hearty-pulsed, man-strong; and yet, his history, until he was thirty, had been harum-scarum and erratic to the superlative.
CHAPTER IV
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Her clear-eyed, girl-cheeked Joe might be anything but a prize-fighter.
Chapter 2
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And "The Major and the Minor," with Rogers's clear-eyed schemer masquerading as a child to save money.
Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead
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As a witness of the last days of this cruel and malevolent regime, Downfall is clear-eyed and unsentimental.
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She was so very clear-eyed about the foibles of her peers and wrote about them in delightfully wry ways.
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves
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too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow
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Without clear-eyed, informed journalism about sexuality, the public runs the risk of seeing sex-related issues through a murky scrim of ignorance and biased attitudes.
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Carter was consulting daily with the best military minds and some clear-eyed realists, with no shortage of hawks in his circle of advisers.
The Good Fight
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She knew how to do things and make things and even her good looks were competent, a straightforward sort of ableness, open and clear-eyed, with a smatter of fading freckles and a dirty-minded smile.
Underworld
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In Self-Portrait, the artist presents herself as a clear-eyed gamine, seemingly defined by the field of animals, dolls and tchotchkes that surround her image.
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Even if you believe that he was responsible for the economies of the 1990s, we're in a different world now and I hope voters would be clear-eyed about what he actually did and didn't do in office.
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Clear-eyed, from her childhood days with the saloonkeeper Cady and Cady's good-natured but unmoral spouse, she had observed, and, later, generalized much upon sex.
CHAPTER IV
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It's a more clear-eyed assessment of the realities of the situation there.
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He was a good-looking kid, six-two or six-three, clear-eyed, with an easy smile.
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Hopefully, we'll see a continuation of the current trend toward clear-eyed investigative reporting about the global reach of the immensely profitable drug industry.
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Once citizens have constructed a clear-eyed, dissenting version of our situation, perhaps politicians can also be liberated from exaggerated fear.
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But Ken Khachigian, a Republican strategist who wrote speeches for Reagan, said conservatives "need to be clear-eyed about Reagan" and how he sought to implement the principles he espoused.
Reagan at 100 casts shadow over Republican Party
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The best approach balances acceptance with a clear-eyed look at what happened, she said.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the light of this sexist, miserabilist orthodoxy, surely clear-eyed, hard-hearted happiness is the most maddeningly subversive weapon a woman can wield.
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Clear-eyed, from her childhood days with the saloonkeeper Cady and Cady's good-natured but unmoral spouse, she had observed, and, later, generalized much upon sex.
CHAPTER IV
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I was, after all, a kid and - let's be clear-eyed about this - kids can be incredibly cruel.
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WILLIAM" TENN U6131 OF MEN AND MONSTERS'the first full-length science fiction novel to appear by this author-a clear-eyed tribute to the audacity, shrewdness, stupidity, courage, and ultimate ineradicability of the human pest U6132 THE SQUARE ROOT OF MAN-containing some of the earliest Term.
Expedition to Earth
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Clear-eyed, sympathetic and scholarly, she spreads the whole canvas, alive with incident and detail, with places and people.
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She learned to look upon danger clear-eyed and with understanding, losing forever that panic fear which is bred of ignorance and which afflicts the city-reared, making them as silly as silly horses, so that they await fate in frozen horror instead of grappling with it, or stampede in blind self-destroying terror which clutters the way with their crushed carcasses.
THE UNEXPECTED
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In the way they approach engineering, they have learnt to put emotions to one side and to look in a clear-eyed way at the evidence.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a clear-eyed portrait of complexity and contradiction and an assertion that it all fits, that it all belongs, that we can throw open the doors and let it all in, because it's already been admitted.
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And despite her remarkable command of languages, razor-sharp mind and transcendent abilities as a ruler -- "every bit Caesar's equal as a coolheaded, clear-eyed pragmatist" -- it is the libidinous queen who lives on.
Stacy Schiff's new biography of "Cleopatra," reviewed by Maria Arana
