In spite of the countless accolades and awards her work garnered, both in the United States and abroad, she remained a regional writer, whose quietly magnificent short stories and novels are suffused with Chekhovian wit and clear-sightedness.
A time for wisdom and clear-sightedness.
He would congratulate me on my clear-sightedness.
He had written, but not yet published, an admiring book about George Orwell's political clear-sightedness.
Another thing I love about Twain is the way his clear-sightedness expresses itself in exact language.
You can imagine there will be a certain irony, a certain…" – she hesitates playfully, choosing her words – "clear-sightedness.
Yet for those with courage and clear-sightedness, facing up to our common destinies can mark a kind of rebirth.
His clear-sightedness, dexterity and exceptional accomplishments are deemed as worthy of celebration as spiritual acrobatics or aristocratic gracefulness.
Flight, it seems to me, contains not one but two acts of extraordinary courage and clear-sightedness.
Perhaps it was the sort of thing that Dewey understood, years later, when he said, with great clear-sightedness, "Dick Nixon's got the same trouble I have.
It was Jones, of course, who played Jack Jefferson in "The Great White Hope," and Alexander would have brought a strong, purposeful clear-sightedness to the part.
