Sentence examples for to a blinkered from inspiring English sources

They — we! — are smart, cultured people with good intentions, but it's easy to see how this narrow range could lead to a blinkered view of literature.

If there is a straight line to be drawn, it is probably from our undeniable success in drastically reducing hijackings over the last two decades to a blinkered complacency about airport security that had set in by Sept. 10, 2001.

For director Michael Cimino, the failure of "Heaven's Gate" (due precisely to critical repudiation of the film due not just to a blinkered indifference to its brazen originality but in knee-jerk response to reports of its budget and its extraordinarily exacting production), was a crushing experience.

Having someone to confide in can help you to overcome a blinkered approach to situations and allow you to set aside the suspicions.

And does it make sense to retain a blinkered faith in financiers' abilities to corral risk — as if it weren't the unwieldy and surprising beast it often turns out to be? Designing convoluted securities out of simple mortgage loans, Wall Street's wizards thought they had managed to offload all their risks to others.

"There seems to be a blinkered attitude that it's the 'three Rs' or nothing".

Many of these students seem to have a blinkered view of their options.

Now this grand tradition is under threat, as the secretary of state for education's new national history curriculum threatens to produce a blinkered and ignorant generation of young people who will leave school knowing nothing at all about the history of the lands beyond these shores.

But even though Merkel has her eye on the German elections next year, concentrating on domestic safety at the expense of European unity may prove to be a blinkered approach.

It would be inappropriate to adopt a blinkered focus on India without placing it within the larger global landscape of discourse and practice in this dynamic field.

At the moment, most doctors need to rely on a blinkered view of their patient's lifestyle, based on face-to-face interviews.