One classic challenge of crosscultural, psychiatric research is the need to avoid being blinkered by a rigid set of professional definitions of mental disorder that may have limited validity in different populations.
In case you are still blinkered by an unqualified love of the Coccinellidae, there are a couple of other truths about ladybirds that you ought to be aware of.
In a political system blinkered by short-term electoral deadlines and a 24-hour media blitz, it's refreshing to hear politicians consider their long-range responsibilities.
Homebound workers salmoned past without offering a hand, blinkered by visions of supper or respite.
To brush aside such considerations as trivial, intolerant, nostalgic, racist, nasty and even Nazi exposes a faulty and counter-productive analysis, itself blinkered by global-growth criteria.An economy is not a country.
Whether it was case of an Irish public blinkered by the Charlton years, demanding too much, or Trapattoni not delivering, is a matter for debate.
Because his view is blinkered by his condition, the reader becomes a more active participant, seeing the links where the literalminded narrator cannot.
I'm sure if I'd done that, there are many benefits I would have had … But because my experience wasn't so blinkered by the idea of just becoming a writer, I feel like I was exposed to experimental music, and to visual art, and to all of these things in a way that I wouldn't have been".
Although I had seen Virtual Iraq in one dimension on a computer monitor, encountering it in three dimensions, with my eyes blinkered by the headset and my ears getting a direct audio feed, was different.
Republican voters will have to go on for some time choosing between a candidate, Mitt Romney, who stands for nothing except country-club capitalism, and a candidate, Rick Santorum, so blinkered by his ideology that it's hard to imagine him considering any alternative ideas or listening to any dissenting voice.
