Yet it does demonstrate a certain short-sightedness and a lack of vision. From Wordnik.com. [Whirlpool.net.au] Reference
You're short sightedness is not my problem or the problem of anyone else for that matter. From Wordnik.com. [Beckwith on ID] Reference
Also a little near-sightedness is just fine considering he almost lost his sight to ROP or retinopathy of prematurity. From Wordnik.com. [October « 2006 « Adventures in Juggling] Reference
Actually, it is far-sightedness, not near-sightedness, that is correlated to age. From Wordnik.com. [Chutzpah, pure chutzpah - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
We need a common sense approach to airline security, grounded in reality, not "knee-jerk" reactions grounded in shortsightedness. From Wordnik.com. [Consumer Traveler] Reference
It implies "front-loading", but it doesn't imply the "sightedness" or awareness of that front-loader. From Wordnik.com. [Are dem bunny prints?] Reference
The short-sightedness is mindboggling. From Wordnik.com. [Skype fun « BuzzMachine] Reference
During childhood there is a marked increase of near-sightedness. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
This will is a living monument to his good sense and far-sightedness. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
At length George, recovering his poise and clear-sightedness, resumed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
Democrats suffered during these meetings, from their own short-sightedness. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch [August 2009] -- Obama's Base Support Erodes] Reference
The habit of saving calls for self-control, far-sightedness and imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
Her clear-sightedness was unaccompanied by the slightest dexterity of action. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
Myopia or short-sightedness among the Germans is growing at a tremendous rate. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
We have compounded our moral short-sightedness with utter fiscal irresponsibility. From Wordnik.com. [Rep. Mike Honda: A Credit Card for War, But No Cash for Teachers?] Reference
It was the misfortune of Allcraft, with all his long-sightedness, not to see far enough. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
The tendency to short-sightedness exists in many cases at birth, and is largely hereditary. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The cause lies further back: most often in the ignorance or short-sightedness of the parent. From Wordnik.com. [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference
We are accustomed in our short-sightedness to think that the dividing line of death is final. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Gabriel brought him, was aided in judgment by the wisdom and far-sightedness of his young son. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
This has a tendency to elongate the eyeball, and as a permanent result we have near sightedness. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
"You are cursed with a clear-sightedness that must make life a burden to you," said Mrs. Temperley. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Guilt is represented as the short-sightedness which barters for a home on earth -- a home in heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
In many cases near-sightedness becomes a serious matter and demands skillful advice and careful treatment. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Secondly, the short-sightedness of self-love, in magnifying the present, at the cost of the distant future. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society] Reference
No one can tell the amount of near-sightedness caused by the effort to read and write in our dark city houses. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
Under the conditions observed there, the frequency of short-sightedness seemed to diminish with increasing age. From Wordnik.com. [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference
His note, which is most remarkable for its far-sightedness, wisdom, force, and restraint, was worded as follows. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
With eyes fixed in almost trance-like far-sightedness, she moved towards Brady, and laid her hand upon his sleeve. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
Those of tender years are known for their perpetual blunders, short-sightedness, and pure love of rank foolishness. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
Gertrude had need not only of public sympathy, but of all the courage and clear-sightedness which she had inherited. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day] Reference
So common is short-sightedness nowadays that military officers, and sometimes private soldiers, are allowed to wear spectacles. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
To Aimée, in her new clear-sightedness of misery, it was bitterly apparent that he was reconciled with her lot and careless of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
The prevalent and increasing short-sightedness of our times is, perhaps, partly the cause of the excessive use of rouge and powder. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
How worse than foolish, then, is the short-sightedness that ascribes monopolies to the personal wickedness of the men who form them. From Wordnik.com. [Monopolies and the People] Reference
This morning her near-sightedness had confused her, but she was certain that they were trying to trick her and she would have none of it. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis A Twin] Reference
Short-sightedness is a common malady, but the closer we get to things or they get to us the clearer our view and the less obscure our duty. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
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