Sentence examples for certain blindness from inspiring English sources

A certain blindness to the odds may be necessary.

And as religion is understood in increasingly instrumentalist terms by politicians and intellectuals, there may be a certain blindness to religion's wilder, more mystical and irrational aspects.

It consists of the following elements: the false identification of liberal values with an oppressive West, and of political Islamism with an oppressed third world; an unreflective, unqualified opposition to every exercise of American power; a certain blindness regarding, or even tenderness toward, contemporary expressions of anti-Semitism.

But it does point to a certain blindness on the part of Microsoft, or at least a willingness to look the other way, in its obsessive quest to become a player in search (see Yahoo and Powerset).

Although "On a Certain Blindness" is about toleration and the appreciation of different points of view, James sets out his own romantic point of view in his choice of heroes in the essay: Wordsworth and Shelley, Emerson, and W. H. Hudson, all of whom are said to have a sense of the "limitless significance in natural things" (TT 244).

Overinvest emotionally in a cause, just as in a person, and the same certain terrible blindness may arise.

Between sticky sweat, mixing saliva and unverifiable fluids, sex requires a certain willful blindness to visceral realities of the human body, and we walk a fine line between desire and disgust.

"There is a certain masculine blindness to some of these issues, and I don't think it's a coincidence that it is being driven largely by white men with money who've worked in tech," he says.

Such sympathies are not shared by all officers, by any means, but it is clear that a certain willful blindness to violence on the far-right has hampered the pursuit of domestic terrorists.  .

They are victims of a certain moral blindness – which means every single black person, in the eyes of a racist, symbolizes a terrible crime from their ugly past, a reminder that their life is a fraud.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, surgeons tried removing branches of these trunks — a thoracic sympathectomy — for all sorts of conditions: epilepsy, glaucoma, certain cases of blindness.