But the book's eloquence, insights and detail make it an indispensable read for anyone trying to understand European history in the last century—or world affairs in general.Readers will be left aghast at the way in which largely sensible, humane and well-educated men brought about such suffering and havoc with their blinkered decision-making.
The Los Angeles Times critic Charles McNulty, who headed the drama jury, has now gone on record as being "ticked off," saying the board's decision reflected "a blinkered New York mentality" and a "failure to appreciate new directions in playwriting".
In his paper's opinion, "judges have time and again backed Europe against the interests of the British people" and, this time around, have delivered a decision based on "a blinkered reading of statutes".
However, it can also cause a blinkered perspective, which can inhibit sound decision-making.
The Home Office has come under repeated criticism for poor decision-making and a blinkered anti-immigration approach when identifying victims of human trafficking.
Nussbaum is either willfully blinkered or bases her conclusion on unreliable secondary sources.
Its chief executive, Mike Benner, said: "Camra's initial reaction to the decision is it is based on blinkered and selective consideration.
But he's not so blinkered that he is unaware of the intense interest surrounding his every decision.
The FIA's decision to go ahead with the race based on one blinkered account of the situation shows how money has prevailed over morals.
These problems flow partly from Ms. Baszile's decision — the wrong one, I think — to write almost entirely from the necessarily blinkered perspective of herself as a girl.
The Croatia game was, according to the front page of one of the Fortaleza dailies, a Vitória Nervosa, and even the most blinkered of locals had to concede that Brazil had benefited from a string of refereeing decisions, most notably the penalty award that followed Dejan Lovren's innocuous brush with Fred.
