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.
Sometimes you have to be very blinkered to get to your goal, and that can result in excluding the people around you from your world.
Auchincloss, aware that outsiders don't usually see it that way, is inclined, at least in his fiction, to extend all possible sympathy to the blinkered few.
Having someone to confide in can help you to overcome a blinkered approach to situations and allow you to set aside the suspicions.
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.
"The damage done by the PSNI to any credible effort to tell the truth about the Troubles is now beyond calculation, thanks to this blinkered pursuit of alleged activists, both state and non-state, via criminal prosecution.
Likewise, in our daily lives, it's easy to become blinkered and ignore people who are sleeping rough.
Today's opinion is a clear message to our blinkered government – your proposed new law breaches our human rights".
Mr. Gould felt that the field had become overrun with "ultra-Darwinians," and that evolutionary psychology would be a more fruitful science if it didn't limit itself "to the blinkered view" that evolutionary explanations accounted for every difference.
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.
