Word: myopic
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...want to break down the perceived barrier between the secular and the spiritual. Everything should be to the glory of God," Grizzle says. "It is hopelessly myopic to think that it only matters to Jesus what we do on Sunday...
This is the first feature for stage director Daldry (An Inspector Calls), yet he displays an awesome instinct for cinematic manipulation. He loads every image with emotive propaganda (this character noble, this one morally myopic) and lards it with music that cues you to weeping or cheering. Billy Elliot is about as open to unforced feeling as Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will...
...someone who isn't myopic and just focused on computer science," Levin said...
McCain braved the forces of his party leadership to defeat this anointed candidate, pledging to reform the political system if given the chance. I found his platform compelling for this reason alone, but his strategy of appealing to Democrats to win the Republican nomination seems tactically myopic, or at the very least, deserving of some other conjoined big words. And he lost...
...reconstruct their country and lives, and the inhabitants of Israel, imprisoned as they are in a constant atmosphere of anxiety, whom we owe the greatest sympathy and concern. They deserve better--better than the vicious Israeli war-machine, better than despotic Syrian colonialism, better than the cheap slogans of myopic Muslim nationalism proclaimed by Hizbollah, and better than the arrogant and short-sighted Realpolitik of Pax Americana...