Sentence examples for deliberately blinded from inspiring English sources

The 'bright light' theory - the claim that the driver was deliberately blinded by a beam immediately before the crash - is also dismissed by Stevens.

The Hailsham children are indoctrinated in – and, one suspects as the narrative progresses, deliberately blinded by – the belief that their personal worth and the meaningfulness of their lives resides entirely in their ability to create art.

Some audiences, promised a "feelgood" extravaganza, have been disconcerted to find themselves watching slum children deliberately blinded with acid and the main character tortured in a police station using methods that might make Dick Cheney wince.

He led the hunt for al-Qa'ida and Bin Laden, no one in the entire US government apparatus was more informed or more obsessed or more aware of the threat they represented than he was, yet they deliberately blinded him".

Raha Bahreini, a researcher with Amnesty International's Iran team, said that punishing someone by deliberately blinding them is "an unspeakably cruel and shocking act".

It was more about anger, distrust and, of course, loyalty -- that admirable quality that can also be deliberately blind.

In "The Rainbow," he trades in his great visual powers for a deliberately blind and fumbling account of the bodily lives of men and women.

Mr Binns has now told In These Times magazine: "Negroponte would have had to be deliberately blind not to know about human rights violations..

Orwell says somewhere that, by the late 1930s, everyone who didn't deliberately blind themselves understood what Stalin was doing in Russia.

But your explanation that commentators have been either lazy or deliberately blind to Bush's deceptions is only part of the answer.

Connelly had been deliberately blind to what was happening to her son, colluding in a cover-up with her lover and deceiving social services about who exactly was living in her home.