How To Use Purblind In A Sentence
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The logic and philosophy of the great deist and agnostic was worth more to the Colonies, and did more injury to King George and his murdering minions, than all the purblind, bigoted, saphead pulpit thumpers who ever preached for ready cash.
Shakspere, Personal Recollections
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He would lift himself from their ranks, which he scarcely overtopped, as you came up the footway to his door, and peer purblindly across at you.
Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship
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No one I met fulminated about loss of economic sovereignty or that S&P, whose purblind approval of junk mortgage debt as triple A was one of the causes of the financial crisis, had finally over-reached itself.
The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression | Will Hutton
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Othello, though decently acted by Keith David, needs to be of more heroic stature, more purblind nobility, and, eventually, of more pitiable, poetic grandeur than mere competence can summon.
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But the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency charged with safeguarding the nation's 103 reactors, remained strangely purblind to the threat.
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a certain young married lady, when she managed to shirk her rather filial duties to her husband, who was much about the verandas, purblindly feeling his way with a stick, as he walked up and down, or sitting opaque behind the glasses that preserved what was left of his sight, while his wife read to him.
Ragged Lady — Complete
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John Peter looked purblindly about him, rubbing his spectacles with a thread-bare coat-tail.
Hocken and Hunken
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Nevertheless, the most amazing feature in connection with this is the hopeless purblindness of the freedmen, for neither the tabulations of the census bureau nor the reports of municipal boards of health exert the slightest influence on racial habits of living.
The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
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Even when you're a purblind dogmatist who wants to shut it down, I guess you've got to at least pay lip service to it, which explains the name.
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He was probably unsuited to the intricate problems he faced, as temperamentally - and despite being purblind - he was a fighting general not a diplomat.
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I find I can pardon _all_ things in a man except purblindness, falseness of vision, -- for, indeed, does not that presuppose every other kind of falseness?
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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It is true that it controlled the details rather than the totality of life; but the reason why it dealt with life, detail by detail, was that its exponents, owing to their spiritual purblindness, were unable to see the wood for the trees.
What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
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MsWenezenki-Yolland seems to be suffering from the same professional purblindness that afflicted Dr Beeching.
08 « November « 2009 « Stephen Rees's blog
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Instead he is faced with fake holymen peddling religious enmity and the purblind nouveau riche materialism of his family who bypass the country's problems in their smart new cars.
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Thus, in a whole imbroglio of Capabilities, we go stupidly groping about, to grope which is ours, and often clutch the wrong one: in this mad work must several years of our small term be spent, till the purblind Youth, by practice, acquire notions of distance, and become a seeing Man.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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What did she say?" he asked Clementina, slanting the down-pulled brim of his soft hat purblindly toward her.
Ragged Lady — Complete
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a fund of purblind obduracy, of opaque _flunkyism_ grown truculent and transcendent; what an eye for the phylacteries, and want of eye for the eternal noblenesses; sordid loyalty to the prosperous Semblances, and high-treason against the Supreme Fact, such a vote betokens in these natures?
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin
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What is less obvious, but more significant, is its purblindness.
What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
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In exile, the dissident was not going to let such purblindness happen again.
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We do not set out to blame all bikers for being daredevils on two wheels who ride far too fast; we do not set out to accuse all car drivers of being purblind occupiers of lethal tin boxes.
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Most of all, he loved [comic books] for the pictures and the stories they contained, the inspiration and lucubration of five hundred aging boys dreaming as hard as they could for fifteen years, transfiguring their insecurities and delusions, their wishes and their doubts, their public education and their sexual perversions, into something that only the most purblind of societies would have denied the status of art.
Archive 2007-08-01
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The devastation of our merchant marine, predicted as long ago as 1905, has happened - not through war, but, rather, official purblindness.
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The Times, during the American War, was cursed -- or cursed its readers -- with prophets, seers, and oracles, in its correspondents; and the prophecies turned out to be ridiculously wrong, the seeing to be purblindness, and the oracles to be gibberish.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
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Western politicians' fears represented wise caution in dealing with a revisionist power, not merely purblind class interest as Carley would have us believe.
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The only defeat owed more to a purblind referee than any deficiencies in our play.
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The experts are in accord as to the purblindness of love.
The House of Toys
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There are developmental problems: purblindness, other kinds of developmental problems.
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Aware of his defenceless condition in the bright daylight, when his purblindness would prevent him from evading the attacks of his enemies, he seeks some obscure retreat where he may pass the day without exposing himself to observation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
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She meant to try first with that big girl who had helped her put on the shoeman's bronze slippers; and she hurried through the office, pushing purblindly past
Ragged Lady — Volume 1
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The wolves gather again the following day, a few suspecting the hero is purblind to all but his own ambitions, caught up as he is in the hysteria of his last days.
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Only the purblind could believe that the Test programme has not been grotesquely over-extended.
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That said, I cannot begin to assess the damage to British music that will ensue from the coming year's purblind promotion of a composer who failed so insistently to observe the rules of his craft.
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The lower, yet still an estimable class, take up with worn-out Symbols of the Godlike; keep trimming and trucking between these and Hypocrisy, purblindly enough, miserably enough.
Paras. 40-58
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As a stylist, Rothbart is terse but not flippant, displaying a genuine compassion for his purblind characters.
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If an administrator has no access to information, it's as if he was purblind and hard of hearing and had a stuffed nose.
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Babichev, who personifies the purblind utopianism of the Communist regime, cuts a truly grotesque figure as the votary of social planning, epitomized in his quest for the perfect mass-produced sausage.
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Josephine played upon his purblindness where she was concerned in most scandalous ways.
The Tragedy of St. Helena
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But is not the use of the cultural Other as a catalyst for one's own transcendent function a selfish, purblind appropriation, acting, against rather than for, crosscultural understanding?
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The treaty usually took place in the dishevelled drawing-room, after a round of the widely parted chambers, where frowzy beds, covered with frowzy white counterpanes, stood on frowzy carpets or yet frowzier mattings, and dusty windows peered into purblind courts.
London Films
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Victory, rendered cheap and easy by reason of the purblindness of the frantic cook, who was trying to persuade Mr. Green to raise his face from the floor so that he could punch it for him, remained with Joe and Ben, who, in reply to the angry shouts of the skipper from above, pointed silently to the combatants.
A Master Of Craft
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Well, you'd either have to be living in a box, congenitally purblind or maintaining yourself in a state of wilful self-delusion not to spot it.
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His attempts at being universal are taken for granted; after all, literature, since Aristotle, has been seen—often purblindly—as a “universal” category.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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To suggest that objectors to speed humps are a minority with bees in their bonnets is both purblind and arrogant.
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If an administrator has no access to information, it's as if he was purblind and hard of hearing and had a stuffed nose.
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It is fascinating to play someone so purblind to the consequences of what he is doing and so convinced of his own abilities.
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His eyesight had grown dimmer, but otherwise his bodily health had improved, for nowadays he ate food enough: and, as for purblindness, why there was no real need to keep watch on the sea.
Lady Good-for-Nothing
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There's the purblind betrayal of stern poetics.
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Instead he is faced with fake holymen peddling religious enmity and the purblind nouveau riche materialism of his family who bypass the country's problems in their smart new cars.
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If an administrator has no access to information, it's as if he was purblind and hard of hearing and had a stuffed nose.
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I do not know that I like to think of those Roman mines myself, where it is said the sea now surges back and forth: they must have been worked by British slaves, who may be fancied climbing purblindly out when the legions left Britain, and not joining very loudly in the general lamentation at their withdrawal, but probably tempering the popular grief with the reflection that the heathen Saxons could not be much worse.
Seven English Cities
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Yet the claims made by the two administrations were the result of distortion of intelligence findings, not their purblind acceptance by idealistic politicians.