How To Use Clear-sighted In A Sentence
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Berkshire, and not far removed from the great highway leading from Bath to London, lies the farmery where this restless, petulant, suffering, earnest, clear-sighted Tull put down the burden of life, a hundred and twenty years ago.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864
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In ten years time people could be making a much more clear-sighted judgement.
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His speech was important, powerful and clear-sighted.
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We take it rather as a time for reflection and clear-sighted realism about how far the nation has progressed on the path towards freedom and democracy, and how much farther we still have to go.
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Romantic idealisation is certainly not what we should offer here; but clear-sighted respect.
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There, he restated his belief that the panel marked the origin of French painting and amplified his earlier praises of what he saw as the artist's unabashedly clear-sighted reproduction of the hapless king's blunt features.
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It requires a clear-sighted, historically-informed analysis and the clarification of essential political questions.
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I suggest that some people might find this theory credulous and at odds with the clear-sighted understanding of human nature in her work.
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A more clear-sighted perspective on the good in human life and a firmer grasp of how we might work together to attain it seem well worth the discomfiture of reorganizing our professional aims and self-understandings.
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The information on this site is fairly clear-sighted.
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Clear-sightedness is only possible when one is not distracted by jargon, and psycho-babble or intimidated by emotional blackmail.
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Even so, Germany can't be faulted for its clear-sighted analysis of the euro's failings and what must be done to eliminate them.
Sarkozy Can Help the Euro—and Himself
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To David Black, my agent, I am tremendously grateful for both his convivial encouragement and his clear-sighted direction.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
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This opening cluster of poems in the book advocates ‘not knowing’ as an elegiac mode of creative forgetfulness and of clear-sighted, forwardlooking memory.
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He was on good terms with the major novelists of his day: he greatly admired Thackeray, of whom he nevertheless wrote a clear-sighted study, and was a close friend of G. Eliot and G. H. Lewes.
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chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership
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The book is a clear-sighted, yet compassionate, take on a whole gamut of issues.
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He had a remarkably clear-sighted view of the drawbacks of the land-based elements of the architecture—one that transcended Navy parochialism.
How the End Begins
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Natural wines 'have the wind of fashion behind them at present' and even the clear-sighted can be blinded by fashion, but in the end only the best natural wine will endure, the critic says.
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He is clear-sighted about the scale of his future ambitions.
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Many of its old conventions have silently dropped away, unregarded and unregretted: whatever the outlooks, and they are many and various, they are more clear-sighted, more sincere.
Recent Developments in European Thought
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The clans of Tokyo's underworld have moved beyond certain rituals of an earlier era, even though they cling to a classic thuggery that involves crime families, turf wars and loyalty that's blind until it turns into clear-sighted treachery.
'Shame': Tracking The Travails of Lost Souls
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What is needed is a clear-sighted reappraisal of where we stand, before we can plot a path forwards.
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A love that is elastic as well as clear-sighted is likely to endure.
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He saw, seating himself as directed in an enveloping black chair, what clear-sighted men sometimes see.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness.
Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
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But behind the on-air enthusiasm and frisson of illegality, the station's founders were hard-headed realists driven by a clear-sighted aims.
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He provides a clear-sighted and sensible guide for anyone who finds himself in the media spotlight.
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Usually Steve Benen is to my mind one of the most clear-sighted observers of the DC scene.
Discourse.net: The Holder Strategy
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She had regained her composure and her straight, clear-sighted gaze.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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Try to keep a clear-sighted view of your objective.
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Throughout The Cookbook Collector Goodman shows herself to be a clear-sighted observer who doesn't flinch from depicting her characters' blindspots and failings.
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman – review
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That is not clear-sighted policy, and it is not helpful.
Matthew Yglesias » Explaining Why the Geithner Plan Was So Vague
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Easily the foremost contemporary survey of "collapsing" Pakistan, Lieven's book also contains some of the most clear-sighted accounts of "rising" India.
Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven – review
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Shamsie's attempt to explain political upheaval through interlocking lives is broad-minded, clear-sighted, even valiant.
Burnt Shadows: Summary and book reviews of Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie.
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It's no that, however," said he, "that sud blind a man to facts; and it's true as ye stated it, Leddy Peebles, with yore usual clear-sightedness into a 'human affairs, that a man that's aye drunken, maun be held to be a drunkard; and a man that's aye spendin' whan he should be payin ', maun beware of folks ca'ing him, what ye ca'd him but noo.
Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
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Simon has a clear-sighted vision of the company's future.
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Land Rover has benefited similarly from Rover's clear-sighted policies.
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How is anyone able to make a clear-sighted judgement about retirement when both press and public conspire to blur the truth and even encourage us to go on beyond reasonable limits?
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(all that was objectionable was attributed to this poor lady) had been so abominably clear-sighted, so odiously presuming as to have suspected this, his sudden blaze of anger was _foudroyant_.
The Marriage of Elinor
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That prime ministerial statement had no vision; nor did it have any clear-sighted sense of purpose.
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In all the media hysteria, there was one journalist whose comments were clear-sighted and dispassionate.
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As Ross Perlin puts it in this timely and clear-sighted book, the first on the internship boom, "In much of the developed world, the subtle, relentless pressure to do an internship is now simply part of being young.
Intern Nation by Ross Perlin – review
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The importance of this book lies in its clear-sighted examination of women's subject citizenship, and its strength, in its sustained and rigorous analysis of the state's record on it.
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Here too are many of the familiar themes - alienation, loss, connection, regeneration - that she explored so deftly and with such subtlety and clear-sighted compassion in her story collection.
