Sentence examples for was myopic from inspiring English sources
adjective
Nearsighted; unable to see distant objects unaided
- Corrective lenses compensate for the excessive positive diopters of the myopic eye.
The elite was myopic, self-centred and snobbish".
Robert Moses's dream of building an expressway through the heart of Manhattan was myopic monumentalism.
"I moved to Europe because I thought the U.S. venture capital community — which I was a part of — was myopic," he said.
3.32pm: Jackson says it was "myopic" not to look at the insurgency campaign as a whole, rather than just the south, but he was out-voted.
According to Pliny the Elder, the Emperor Nero used to watch gladiatorial games by holding an emerald to his eye, either because the gem filtered the sunlight or because he was myopic, or maybe because Nero was pulling Pliny's leg.
Bruce Hoffman, who studies terrorism at Georgetown University, said the recent cases only confirmed that it was "myopic" to believe "we could insulate ourselves from the currents affecting young Muslims everywhere else".
