It seemed not to be sightlessness that afflicted him, though.
BLINDNESS A doctor's wife is the only person who can see in a town plagued by sightlessness, in Joe Tantalo's adaptation of the novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago.
The students were startled, and stared at her, but she knew that she alone had momentarily plunged with Bernard Allen into sightlessness.
Consult your pastor about the choice between sightlessness and personal bankruptcy.
BLINDNESS A doctor's wife is the only person who can see in a town plagued by sightlessness, in Joe Tantalo's adaptation of a novel by the Nobel laureate José Saramago.
And whereas Dido's court is ceremonious, the Sorceress's coven begins chillingly with an image of mocking sightlessness, every character facing and traveling a separate path, like so many zombies.
He also threads "The Present" with a motif of sightlessness.
Remarkably, turning "blindish" (McWilliam is careful to distinguish her own "functional blindness," in which "my eyes are fine, my vision acute, but my eyelids will not open," from the true sightlessness of the "properly" blind) brought a rush to expression after a 13-year dry spell as a novelist.
This man and woman employ Balinese gesture; they have images both of sight (as if addressing the ocean's vast horizon) and sightlessness (fists over eyes), and their elegant inscrutability has elements of pathos.
The music (1945) was inspired by the end of the war in the Pacific, but the ways in which Balanchine, amid a kaleidoscope, gives us imagery of airplanes, the Lindy, Balinese gesture, vast oceanic horizons, sight and sightlessness, and social units versus impersonal blocs, is always cause for wonder.
