Word: foresighted
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...hope if I get married I will have the foresight to always mark the calendar for the day after my anniversary. Then when I forget the actual date I can still get a Card With A Corny Saying before it's too late without having to rely on The Neighbor whose anniversary may turn out to be on the same day as my own, which would render him incapable of remembering the day as anything special...
...crowd of celebrants, resplendent in red, holds aloft a richly caparisoned tent for the wedding of a blind king. A master of military arts orders a disciple to cut off his right thumb and thereby lose his strength and skill. "It is not cruelty," the teacher explains. "It is foresight...
...sophomore had the foresight to steal blank i.d.s at registration. (And if you think our freshman friend had a fairy godmother, what about this woman?) The blank contained the Harvard seal and a sticker with someone's name (not that of the thief), but no picture, and it hadn't been sealed yet. The way was clear, but not the line...
...them now untenable? What is to account for this change (for the better) in the political landscape? The answer is clear: the political vision and constitutional leadership of the Court. Segregated schools, remarkably the norm in the South a mere 30 years ago, are unthinkable today because of the foresight of the nine members of the Warren Court who handed down Brown v. Board of Education and the courage of the southern federal judges who enforced...
...inept in their resistance. Meanwhile, Walt's nephew Roy and the other heirs squabble among themselves. In the end, all concerned muddle their way to a bright new management team -- imported from Paramount and Warner Bros. -- that will restore the company's fortunes. But this seems more luck than foresight. Reality omits two things that old Walt would never have left out of a cartoon: an unambiguous hero and a clear-cut moral...