Word: myopic
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...remembers her childhood with bitterness: "My sister was slim and beautiful and friendly, and my mother always preferred her. I was the ugly duckling, fat and clumsy and unpopular. It is a cruel thing to make a child feel ugly and unwanted." Forced to wear heavy spectacles for her myopic eyes, little Maria avoided schoolmates, ate compulsively (sometimes a whole pound of cheese at breakfast). "I hated school, I hated everybody. I got fatter and fatter." But when she was eight, she took up music. She saved money to buy opera librettos, and sang at school. Her mother drove...
...attacks the film's true hero, a shy, sensitive octopus many times the turtle's size. The assault only bores the octopus. Secrets ends with a wild battle between the octopus and the movie's most sinister actor, a moray eel. Result: a draw, with the myopic eel's keen sense of smell fouled up by the wounded octopus' ink defenses...
Since Latin America is the United States' natural relative both in point of geography and because it provides this country with more trade than any other single region, the State Department's non-military attitude seems rather myopic. Latin America provides America with a large part of its oil, copper, lead, and bauxite, yet American foreign affairs experts have not instituted any long range plan to guard our interests...
...Manahan further states that "If the CRIMSON is to make any pretense of being an 'impartial observer' of the Harvard scene, a paper of merit, it must leave the path of 'cheap politics' which it has travelled too often in the past." The idea ventured here is a trifle myopic...
With that, Ghosh emplaned for Moscow for treatment of his hardening arteries and tuberculous lungs and, presumably, correction of his myopic political vision...