On screen Hayley Atwell is evidently beautiful, but this is simply a bonus, and the underlying nature of the character, the mania and gloom, the childish clear-sightedness, remains the same.
Perhaps few of us would choose to walk the permanent tightrope of the actor's life, but Mr. Langella, seen on Broadway this season in "Man and Boy," continues to remain aloft, and from the intelligence and clear-sightedness he evinces in his book, he still has perfect balance too.
A time for wisdom and clear-sightedness.
He would congratulate me on my clear-sightedness.
He had written, but not yet published, an admiring book about George Orwell's political clear-sightedness.
Another thing I love about Twain is the way his clear-sightedness expresses itself in exact language.
You can imagine there will be a certain irony, a certain…" – she hesitates playfully, choosing her words – "clear-sightedness.
Yet for those with courage and clear-sightedness, facing up to our common destinies can mark a kind of rebirth.
His clear-sightedness, dexterity and exceptional accomplishments are deemed as worthy of celebration as spiritual acrobatics or aristocratic gracefulness.
Flight, it seems to me, contains not one but two acts of extraordinary courage and clear-sightedness.
Perhaps it was the sort of thing that Dewey understood, years later, when he said, with great clear-sightedness, "Dick Nixon's got the same trouble I have.
