Sentence examples for become blinkered from inspiring English sources

But at what point does focus become blinkered?

Logan conceded that you could become blinkered when surrounded by like minds.

Likewise, in our daily lives, it's easy to become blinkered and ignore people who are sleeping rough.

If you are continually pedalling fast with your head down, you'll become blinkered, stop questioning and risk missing something vitally important.

But as her mother explained at the inquest, Eloise had become blinkered, convinced the dangers she had read about had been exaggerated, that "being slimmer was worth the risk".

"She's become totally blinkered, and her own compassion and humanity has dried up and withered.

I can't think of anything truly damning to say about my enemy 2. I have become too blinkered by my partisan agenda to care about the truth anymore".

It includes "The Defiant Ones" (1958), in which Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis play chain-gang members who are handcuffed together and who work out their differences in a doomed escape to freedom, and "In the Heat of the Night" (1967), with Poitier as a big-city detective who helps a redneck sheriff (Rod Steiger) solve a local murder and become less blinkered by bigotry.

In the time he has lived there the neighborhood has become less blinkered, helped by the arrival of younger families.

Without the institutional restraints of a robust democracy and public criticism by a free media and the political opposition, such a leader eventually becomes a blinkered one, unconcerned with anyone's opinions, and certain that he is always right.

But unless we collectively begin to accept that the more we indulge in warfare, the more civilians we kill in foreign lands, the more homes our arms and bombs demolish and the more lives our actions wreck, the more alienated, frustrated, angry and resentful youngsters within our society and beyond will become, we will remain blinkered to the course that will serve us best.