Word: purblindly
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Italian Novelist Vasco Pratolini seems to have sworn by the hair on Ernest Hemingway's chest to write a hard-boiled novel. A Hero of Our Time is obviously that. For long stretches it is also a sharp-eyed study of purblind passion. But Novelist Pratolini's political moral is a little crosseyed. He sets out to prove that Fascist ideas make prize heels. What he actually proves is that prize heels make good Fascists...
...Faolain: "The influence of the United States on Europe is the influence of a grandchild on his grandfather. This possibly will, if all goes well, be known in time as the Aeneas-Anchises complex, in grateful commemoration of the bravery, or obstinacy, of Aeneas in carrying his purblind sire out of the crumbling city of Troy...
Nevertheless, the irony, though irony can never be explicit, is there: though Scobie thinks of himself as a sinner, he never realizes what his real sin is-purblind selfishness, appalling spiritual pride1. His "pity" carries him to such morally insane heights that he pities his fellow men -and women-instead of loving them; he ends by pitying...
...self-righteous, whose soul search does not reveal anything worth confessing, Father Wilson has prepared a 20-page probe. If anyone can answer all the questions without finding something to own up to, Father Wilson thinks that he must be either "a saint or spiritually purblind." Sample questions...
...each other and of Britain. Many observers felt that they had witnessed one of those rare occasions in history when great bodies of men, after years of misunderstanding and misdealing, had a precious chance for a real meeting of minds-and were prevented from doing so by their own purblind, disputatious humanity...