Word: myopically
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...saying, "I'd have to be blind or Pollyannish not to recognize that there are dark clouds on the horizon." On the horizon." It is clear that those clouds are already formed-right over our heads. To say otherwise is at best Pollyannish, and at worst irresponsibly myopic...
...prepared to meet Bakhtiar last week, Washington was laboring to find who was responsible for the American diplomatic debacle in Iran. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in an eleven-page report, blamed just about everyone, from President Carter on down (not to mention previous Administrations) for a myopic policy that confined its view of a whole nation to the personage of one man, the Shah, and ignored the grievances that festered throughout the country. The House report stressed that "intelligence and policy failings were intertwined: intelligence collection and analysis were weak, and policymakers' confidence in the Shah...
...that the former guerrilla leader and ultranationalist Menachem Begin came to power - and all the worst fears, and more, of his critics have since come to pass. More than any other man, Begin has set back the chances for peace in the Middle East. He has proved inflexible, myopic, hard-lining and probably deceptive, especially in his dealings with Washington...
Judging by his past record, that bullish view may be a trifle myopic. In 1975 Pharaon bought control of Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth, a rickety go-go institution that had been saved from bankruptcy only by the intervention of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Despite much talk of expansion, Pharaon in 1976 sold his interest in that bank to a Paris-based company. Nonetheless, he professes great faith in the U.S. banking business. Last September he bought 20% of Houston's Main Bank, in which former Treasury Secretary John Connally is a stockholder...
...performance of convincing contrast to Aquino. His smaller stature reflects a personality of petty dimensions, and he plays it with the right touch of insecure eagerness and earnest naivete. Tesman's pride is his books, his major tension Lovborg's intellectual competition and his own half-admitted jealousy--a myopic outlook that leaves little room for his smothered wife...