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Myopic in sentence

49 examples of Myopic in a sentence

When he was fitted, over his extremely myopic eyes, he suddenly looked up and said, "Mama, veo el mundo."
Frustrated by this myopic view, my friend and I had this crazy idea: Let's break our fast at a different mosque in a different state each night of Ramadan and share those stories on a blog.
For starters, any one fish is just so tiny compared to the sheer size of the collective, so it seems that any one individual would have a really limited and myopic view of what's going on, and intelligence isn't really about the individual but somehow a property of the group itself.
It casts Nielsen as the myopic title character, something gets planted on him, and he makes a mess of everything.
I couldn't imagine a movie that better exemplifies the myopic, narcissistic preachiness of today's Hollywood.
Any time a movie is so myopic in its desire to present a particular ending or viewpoint that it simply doesn't bother with an actual story, it's annoying.
The situations are conspicuously overdone to drive the underlying story, but the side walk interviews do succeed in neutralizing this potentially myopic trap.
Blake Edwards, the man who was certainly the most visually inventive and provocative comedic filmmaker of his time, naturally has a hard time being understood by the historically myopic.
Students: note the grossly ineffective vocal inflections, the myopic combinations of fake-English-lord and California slurring, the twitching rather than walking, the gesticulating wildly while raising shoulders and rocking back and forth and jerking the head.
This strategically myopic and militarily ill-conceived war was unwinnable from the beginning.
The Liberals’ behavior seems especially myopic: in ousting Lugo, they ruptured the only political coalition capable of defeating the Colorados.
Europe is being myopic.
In this environment, focusing only on domestic interests is a myopic – and dangerous – approach.
The SGP originally aimed to protect European citizens from myopic governments, but it has ended up forcing even more myopic behavior.
The troika maintains its myopic focus on fiscal austerity;Greece remains reluctant to reform.
As it stands, the Arab world is stuck between an unsustainable economic and political status quo and the inclusive, merit-based economic system that less myopic people in the region know must replace it.
Given his myopic actions at home, where he seems increasingly incapable of dealing with any institution that has any degree of autonomy, this seems unlikely.
The problem is that the world has long maintained a myopic focus on producing and consuming goods as cheaply as possible.
But these same companies, which shaped much of the 20th century, are now under myopic pressure from their shareholders to abandon long-term research in favor of short-term profits.
Before the event even began, one could hear rationalizations of Trump’s destructive past behavior, myopic approach to issues like trade, and populist impulses.
With politicians effectively rewarded for myopic thinking, the Western democracies find themselves struggling to secure stable long-term growth in a way that, say, authoritarian China is not.
But the un-priced environmental externalities – global warming and water depletion, for example – will require serious attention, not myopic, reactive mindsets and approaches.
The Israeli government’s weak and myopic attitude toward the Arab spring is puzzling, not least because it has long been the region’s only true democracy.
Yet even that elementary wisdom has never occurred to traditional ruling elites too set in their myopic and arrogant ways.
The EU’s current myopic, reactive response to mass migration is driven by a zero-sum view of the economy that ignores the far-reaching effects of domestic policy.
This is a self-defeating solution that can appeal only to the most myopic market analysts – and, curiously enough, to a bipolar International Monetary Fund that, less than a year ago, correctly advocated synchronized fiscal stimuli precisely for the same reasons that synchronized fiscal restraint is bad policy for Europe today.
Even Japan’s strategically myopic current government seems to understand that Russia needs to play some role in achieving a new balance of power in Asia.
The idea is that it is actually irrational for a democratically elected government to act prudently if doing so means inviting punishment from voters who are committed to myopic but deeply felt positions.
Still, it is right to ask if the American way of life will survive the twenty-first century, and, if it does, whether it will survive in America or migrate elsewhere as the US economy and political system collapse under the accumulated weight of decades of myopic national leadership and squandered opportunities.
Anyone who believes in the rights of all children to quality education should be troubled by a decision so myopic.