Sentence examples for nearsighted from inspiring English sources

More effort by BPA to link this new capacity to grids in California and British Columbia could have avoided the need to idle those wind turbines, or so a number of power experts reckon".The crime is that we have been nearsighted," says Angus Duncan, chairman of Oregon's Global Warming Commission.

Domestic horses tend to be nearsighted, less hardy than their ancestors, and often high-strung, especially Thoroughbreds, where intensive breeding has been focused upon speed to the exclusion of other qualities.

And if the rest of the country does appear through a storm-centered lens, that, for once, is not entirely nearsighted on the part of the East Coast.

I was nearsighted, and Fyodorov and his doctors, it was said, could correct your vision.

He thought the attempt to combine the peak LSD experience with harsh interrogation, to create maximum terror, was nearsighted.

I was nearsighted, and… oh, the weather outside is frightful, The heat wave brutal and spiteful.

"Why is she standing two inches from your nose?" "It isn't because she is nearsighted.

One iteration of Echo is nearsighted and has asthma, which affects her performance and puts a mission — "We prefer to call them 'engagements,' " the manipulative Miss DeWitt purrs — and the company's huge fee, at risk.

He is thrilled, and forgets that he is in the middle of a duel: "A voice counted 'One!'... Why, I'm not nearsighted, he thought, I'll never need glasses again.

He was nearsighted, the saloon was always dimly lit, and his most rigid conviction was that drink should not be sold to minors; consequently he would sometimes peer across the bar at a small-sized adult and say, "Won't sell you nothing, bud.

But then they tested my eyes, and I was nearsighted, so the police wouldn't take me.