How To Use Myopic In A Sentence
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Else your myopic Irish Goodbye may get you a lapful of Irish Coffee, at least from karma.
Tom Miller: The Relative Merits of the Irish Goodbye
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Originally they were portrayed as boring, myopic bean counters completely lacking in foresight or creativity.
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It appears that you would rather shlep through your existence unaware, uneducated, uninformed while wearing blinders that limits your already myopic reality.
Think Progress » Texas Tea Party candidate: ‘There are some very good arguments’ that government was involved in 9/11.
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With all the difficulties which naturally surround such an examination they found that in fifty-two eyes of rabbits, thirty-six were hypermetropic and astigmatic, eight were hypermetropic only, five were myopic and astigmatic, and others presented mixed astigmatism.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
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The word myopic has appeared in 38 New York Times articles in the past year, including on June 21 in the Op-Ed article, "The Sun Is the Best Optometrist," by Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang:
NYT > Home Page
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The danger is that we can become selfishly myopic, turning our hearts toward home but our backs to the needs of the world.
Christianity Today
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Richardson, 46, said that her parents had been reduced to caricatures of a "bisexual father" and "Marxist mother" which she described as "myopic".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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I was Thomas Hockenberry again — shorter, thinner, gawkier, with my slightly myopic gaze and thinning hair.
Ilium
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There is no epithet deficit when it comes to describing today's crisis of business leadership: greedy, unethical, and myopic appear regularly on the adjectival hot list.
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Anyone who calls the event "pointless" is myopic at best.
One Tenth Scale Saturn V to Fly - NASA Watch
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The LASIK procedure can improve myopic and hyperopic vision with or without astigmatism in acceptable candidates.
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She gazed up at me in myopic perplexity, as if my face were a puzzle she'd completed only to find herself holding an unaccounted piece.
Excerpt: Inamorata by Joseph Gangemi
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The Government still has a myopic attitude to spending.
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Another is what the document calls the myopic private sector.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Only a tiny fragment of the age is treated here and the retrospect is fairly myopic.
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This is a myopic way of thinking, especially for companies who want to remain globally competitive.
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He was exceptionally good at `doing" Prof. Williams, a myopic academic whose sermons were couched in florid verbiage.
GOODBYE CURATE
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A myopic approach was taken all those years ago, and the chickens have come home to roost.
Times, Sunday Times
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The myopic child can be introverted, studious, and solitary, with no interest in ball games or outdoor pursuits.
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Are you sooooo friggin myopic to think that irrespective of WHO did the declassifying, that THEY would have not just turned to the CIA when the CIA demanded via STATUTE, that an invesitgation be initiated for outing a NOC, and would not these truly traitorous scumbags you now defend, turn to the CIA and say, there is no cause for investigation becasue we declassyfied her, and therefore she IS NOT a NOC.
Think Progress » “Get it out.”
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In whosoever's hands the scales of justice is placed, humankind's cry for justice is myopic.
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The Indonesian elites must abandon their myopic ethno-religious politics and instead promote all-inclusive politics capable of accommodating differences.
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Having been dubbed "perma-bear" for his generally pessimistic tone, an accusation he calls "myopic," Rosenberg appeared quite bullish on Japan.
Forbes.com: News
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And, yet, in 2008, their label loving world where they live myopically and refuse to think globally has become claustrophobic and beside the point.
Thelma Adams: Sex and The City Jumps the Shark
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Their myopic refusal to act now will undoubtedly cause problems in the future.
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Part travelogue, part real-estate porn, and all awesome, we knew we were watching the right thing after 30 Rock's leading lady clowned on the HGTV show's myopic potential buyers a few weeks back.
Watercooler: Are You Sold on House Hunters?
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It was open house for outrage, a popularly myopic view being that a grand old place had been destroyed.
Times, Sunday Times
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My quoting Messrs. Lang and Barrett's figures was to bring more prominently to the notice of my hearers the fact that the eyes of primitive man resembled the eyes of the lower mammalia and that the natural eye as an organ of vision was hypermetropic, or far sighted, and that civilization was the cause of the myopic or near sighted eye.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
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Much the same can be said for the United States and its myopic "counterterrorist" policies that rely on the demonization of entire communities, driftnet surveillance of the population, the infiltration of provocateurs into antiwar, socialist and left-wing organizations with no demonstrable ties to international terrorism, and the induced climate of suspicion and fear that breed social paralysis in the face of grave, contemporaneous ruling class threats to democracy.
Gorilla Radio blog
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Of six cows, five were hypermetropic and astigmatic and one was slightly myopic.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
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In introducing it, Andrew Marr, the presenter, used the word biopic, and pronounced it to rhyme with “myopic”.
Film biographies | Linguism | Language Blog
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The Blind Side, while inspiring, is a little myopic.
Strong acting can't outrun shallow tale in 'The Blind Side'
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The spirit of bootstrap self-reliance is not a bad thing, but a political mindset that considers federally supported, affordable financial assistance for education to be an extravagance is myopic.
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But a Justice who subscribes to the view that the Constitution's makers intended the judiciary to be the prime headwind against impetuous and myopic Congresses and Presidents will readily embrace latitudinarian interpretations of the text to fulfill the judicial role and blunt the political branches, he says.
William Fisher: Sotomayor: The Umpires Strike Out!
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However, this view can be described as myopic because cataloging systems developed by librarians handle all types of books, not just science books.
Library Collection Policies - The Panda's Thumb
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Legal and financial issues are certainly important, but it is myopic to stop at just these.
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Granted, the people in the academic ranks do feel a certain degree of unmanageableness about it, as it is their own right, however, it would be very myopic of them if they cut themselves completely off from the Wiki-wise movement.
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They found it in several Impressionist paintings in which some of the main visual themes were identical to myopic vision.
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They want to be hip and happening, but the peer pressure of a myopic public usually stifles a sense of invention and experimentation.
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We need both; we especially need the voice and experience of other centuries, lest we become insular and myopic.
Christianity Today
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Only an industry as avariciously myopic as Big Coal would believe it would get away with such bald-faced dishonesty.
Jeff Biggers: 55 Cents: The Cost of Big Coal Hubris, Disgraced West Virginian Pols and Betrayed Coalfield Residents
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Presumably, what makes political networks so pernicious is not their personal sex life, but the very real damage they do to their states in the form of myopic and self-aggrandizing lawmaking, incompetent appointees, and a perversion of our democratic institutions.
Hi, Larry Marchant! [UPDATED] | RedState
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The eyes of five rats examined gave the following result: Some were far sighted, others were hypermetropic and astigmatic, one was slightly myopic and one had mixed astigmatism.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
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Armstrong is a good conductor and a self-contained man, myopic by design.
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How does if is the eye myopic, degree restore very high?
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However, the treatments do not seem to be as effective or as accurate as myopic corrections except in low corrections.
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A myopic approach was taken all those years ago, and the chickens have come home to roost.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jan. 27, 2009 - Jim Hyres (Nation once known as Dahomey / Game with "Out of Gas" cards / Big name in retail jewelry / Myopic Mr.)
Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle
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If this isn't deliberate casuistry, it is at the very least severely myopic.
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In the entire world of cinema, to think that your film was somehow "marginalized" is myopic at best.
GreenCine Daily: An open letter. 2.
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Such notions are myopic and without foresight.
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Approximately 62 million people in the United States are myopic (ie, nearsighted) and require eyeglasses or contact lenses for vision correction.
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The knowledge that politicians can be led by the nose if there's an ideological nosebag stuck out in front of myopic vision.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Are we justified in concluding, then, that in the "good old times" of our great-grandmothers -- that idyllic time when women must have been at least free from the reproach that they, solely and unaided, were destroying the hopes of the race -- that myopic, hypermetropic and astigmatic eyes were not in existence?
The Education of American Girls
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On the other hand, some companies adopt a myopic view that limits development to formal education and training.
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Thick lenses restrict a myopic patient's field of view.
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I wish I could help you here but my point of view is pretty myopic.
The Sun
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The Government still has a myopic attitude to spending.
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myopic thinking
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On the other hand, in looking at the world of probabilities in something like the stock market, we exhibit something researchers call myopic loss aversion.
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I was, and am, a rumpish, atrophic female, with a Dr. Demento nimbus of ochre hair and the fuddled, myopic gaze of a small subterranean animal.
LIGHT FINGERS
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The rationale behind societal amorality is the myopic question: "How does my immoral behavior hurt you?
Our Pal Joey?
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If Ontarians ever made the same gesture, it would prompt the Feds to finally realize that killing the goose that lays the golden egg for the whole country is the outcome of their disregardful tactics and myopic vision.
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That's a classic, myopic view.
Times, Sunday Times
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In listening to these works with their clumsy blocks of tone, their eternal sunless complaining, their lack of humor where they would be humorous, their lack of passion where they would be profound, their sardonic and monotonous bourdon, one is perforce reminded of the photograph of Reger which his publishers place on the cover of their catalogue of his works, the photograph that shows something that is like a swollen, myopic beetle with thick lips and sullen expression crouching on an organ-bench.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
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What a myopic, blinkered clod their letters page editor must be.
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Like land-based versions of dragonfish, they use this private wavelength to ambush myopic prey like tiny poachers in night-vision goggles.
Smithsonian Mag
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If you become less gluttonous, less greedy, less myopic, more savvy about the world in general, they don't win; you win.
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Retinal degeneration is more common in myopic eyes but it's not exactly related to macular degeneration.
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In the recent check up I was diagnosed with early stage of chronic open angle glaucoma in both eyes by computerised field perimetry - left eye more than right, although left eye is much less myopic than right one.
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My father swore by Kodachrome, taking off his thick-rimmed Philip Larkin spectacles to peer myopically through viewfinders.
Brownie Points
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But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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He sipped from a can of Cherry Coke and exchanged a look with his straight man Munger, whose myopic self-containment seemed impregnable.
American Everyman
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But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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Ultimately, it remains difficult to sustain the comparison between Hart's myopic, young-man-in-a-hurry and the aloof master of Avondale who declined Gladstone's version of an Irish constitution with astonishing froideur in the late 1880s.
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Jimmy Carter comes to mind in the early days he would pour over budgets, read legislation all the way through and even review requests to use the White House tennis courts, he became known as a myopic micro manager.
CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2008
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That's a slightly myopic way to view the situation.
Times, Sunday Times
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After all, why should the majority suffer for the myopic attitude of a minority, she asks.
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Derrida is so perversely myopic a reader, doggedly pursuing the finest flickers of meaning across a page, that he exasperates some of his opponents with his supersubtlety, not his airy generality.
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And this myopic focus on domestic political activity looks so provincial from a global perspective.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Health Insurance and Pharma Stocks Rise, US Treasuries Sink in Reponse to Obama Care:
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And of the 5,000 children who turned up at eye clinics for further checks, about half were mildly myopic or shortsighted.
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The problem may be that bond investors, far from being far-sighted, are in fact myopic, and are perhaps being fooled by the temporary disinflationary effects of excess capacity and debts built up over the bubble years in both Japan and America.
The Budget Outlook, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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My testimony was that the merger came out of a green eyeshade stereotype for myopic city employee or consultant looking for an agency to eliminate to save nickels and give the impression that government was being streamlined.
Henry J. Stern: Condemned to Repeat It
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The blame rests with successive weak and myopic Cong govts whose stupid policies destroyed the economy, leaving India pauperized, unable to help anyone as she herself was abegging for aid.
India vs China SnapShot
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Connelly blinked myopically, trying to clear his gaze, trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
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She had concentrated on the tiniest things in myopic and incantatory fashion, which precisely suited the French taste.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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I have what I call a myopic view.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is much appreciated by geezers, myopes, and in my case, myopic geezers.
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So although on the surface of it they may look like two very different topics, when you drill down it's about the same issues: long term issues like poverty, economic development, growth and pensions and long term growth in developed countries and the dangers of using short term myopic policy to resolve it.
Forbes.com: News
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And to you Mr. Brian, the SUPER DELEGATES are seaned enough to sail abov your myopic views.
Obama, campaign both say he's not ready to declare victory
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Early Tuesday evening, after Spooky and I picked Sonya up at the train depot, the three of us stopped off at Myopic Books in Wayland Square.
"Je nage, mais les sons me suivent."
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We must lift our eyes from the misleading and myopic platitudes of our politicians and look to the future.
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We need both; we especially need the voice and experience of other centuries, lest we become insular and myopic.
Christianity Today
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There are powerful incentives to operate on a basis of myopic short-termism in the public-funded sector.
