Sentence examples for by blindness from inspiring English sources

And the perspective made possible by blindness may have another value in the art world.

Afflicted by altitude sickness, Glaisher experienced elation, followed by blindness and paralysis, and passed out.

Just as he was unfazed by blindness, Euler did not let these troubles hinder his mathematical creativity.

Isolated from the outside by blindness, the visual cortex becomes hypersensitive to internal stimuli of all sorts…Sometimes hallucinations occur.

Eratosthenes was afflicted by blindness in his old age, and he is said to have committed suicide by voluntary starvation.

In the 1980's laws requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets cut down on the high rates of head injuries that were often accompanied by blindness.

He tries to stop passing motorists by feigning blindness, and then by laying nails in the middle of the road in the hope of puncturing their tires.

Globally, an estimated 70 million blind years are caused by childhood blindness.

Like much of Mr. Bellatin's work, "Beauty Salon" is pithy, allegorical and profoundly disturbing, with a plot that evokes "The Plague" by Camus or "Blindness" by José Saramago.

"As the blind-from-birth son of blind parents, I am, in part of my soul, defined by my blindness," he explains.

She also has synesthesia, which has been intensified by her blindness.