Oh, men do not take such narrow--such shortsighted views of the incidents of life.
We have so accustomed ourselves to see only what is under our noses that we become shortsighted and are utterly unable to perceive the size and significance of everything at a distance.
The same waste in the humours of the eye, is the reason why shortsighted persons commonly become less so as they advance in years; so that many who were shortsighted in their youth, come to see very distinctly when they grow old.
But one couldn't neglect old friends, even though there was nothing that could be done for shortsighted ones.
Baker wondered now, however, if they had not been very shortsighted in their application of the Index.
Excellent people, no doubt, but distressingly shortsightedin some matters.
I know, Edy Boardman said none too amiably with an arch glance from her shortsighted eyes.
Dost thou not see--shortsighted being that thou art, and unlucky mortal that I am!
Unhappy, shortsighted Anselmo, what art thou doing, what art thou plotting, what art thou devising?
The easy triumphs of which Miltitz’s shortsighted love of peace was productive were thus of very doubtful value.
It cannot be met by lowering quality or by shortsighted economy, which results only in a dissatisfied working force.
Prosecuting that suit was probably one of the most shortsighted acts that any group of American business men has ever combined to commit.
That is the shortsighted salesman-on-commission attitude.
The war, bringing disruption and bankruptcy to so many shiftless and shortsighted people, made of Consolidated Pemmican one of the country's great concerns.
They were as bewildered and hurt as children that any nation could be at once so shortsighted and so heartless as to bar homeless wanderers.
Thereupon the Secret Council of Four or Five, whose shortsighted action was answerable for the reverse, decided to remonstrate with him.
On the other hand, extravagance was systematically encouraged everywhere by the shortsighted measures which the authorities adopted and maintained as well as by the wanton waste promoted or tolerated by the incapacity of their representatives.
Very hurried and important, he had yet to stop and tell all about it, his tea-party manner quite vanished away, his shortsighted eyes no longer mild.
He had rather bad lungs, or something, and was shortsighted at that; it was absurd of him even to try to get out--no army doctor would pass him.
No more shortsightedpolicy can be imagined than, in the fancied interest of one class, to prevent the education of another class.
Shortsighted persons, or persons blinded to the future by desire to make money in every way out of the present, sometimes speak as if no great damage would be done by the reckless destruction of our forests.
As a Nation we have always been shortsighted in providing for the efficiency of the Army in time of peace.
The forest reserves should be set apart forever for the use and benefit of our people as a whole and not sacrificed to the shortsighted greed of a few.
His nearest and natural ally was the great-king Tigranes; but that shortsighted man declined the proposal of his father-in-law.
But, as statesmen, even these better aristocrats were not much less remiss and shortsighted than the average senators of the time.
Such thinking, of course, is asshortsighted as it is inconsistent.
A shortsighted employee is as anxious to work overtime for double pay as a shortsighted employer is to have him.
For the same reason that the shortsighted colonists of the Revolution put Washington away off up the Potomac, west of the thirteen States," my father answered.
Some of these reactionaries are not bad men, but merely shortsighted and belated.
As a whole the people in Congress were at that time (and are now) a shortsighted set as regards international matters.
But the consciences of the majority were too dull, and, from the standpoint of the white race, they were too shortsighted to take action in the right direction.
What has occurred in Hayti is what would eventually have occurred in our own semi-tropical States if the slave-trade and slavery had continued to flourish as their shortsighted advocates wished.
They were, as a rule, too shortsighted to see that the only permanent remedy for their troubles was their own absorption into a solid and powerful Union.
Providence will not always send the rain and the sunshine just at such a time and in such a quantity as to save the reputation of shortsighted statesmen.
I know that it would be not only a wicked but a shortsighted policy, to aim at making a nation like this great and prosperous by violating the laws of justice.
