Struck with astonishment at the sight, he exclaimed, "Is it not laid down that there is no sitting in heaven, no shortsightedness or fatigue?
Having afterward learned that the ship in which his companion had sailed had sunk to the bottom of the sea, he confessed his shortsightednessand praised God for His mercy.
Whether it will prove an act of wisdom or of shortsightedness only the future can tell.
He knew them all by name; they dispelled his shortsightedness marvelously.
Shortsightedness was another quality now obvious in him.
Seeking merely to extract from the country as much tribute as possible, they overlooked all higher considerations, and by this culpable shortsightedness prepared their own political ruin.
His shortsightedness in these matters even prevented his perceiving any essential difference between a minister and an abbe.
The shortsightednessof justice had failed to take note of Rantaine; but in the progress of inquiry the authorities had come upon other clues.
August 21: The arrogance and shortsightedness of the workingclass is beyond belief.
This proved quite difficult at first, for the people in their shortsightedness clamored for the accounts of impending doom which they devoured with a dreadful fascination.
The history of "Political Causes and Effects" would make a curious volume; and it would admirably display, at once the profound agency of Providence, and the shortsightedness of human policy.
That partial defection itself was certainly not high treason, but merely the result of shortsightedness and exhaustion; beyond doubt these same towns would have rejected with horror an alliance with the Phoenicians.
In a message to the Legislature in 1882, Governor Cornell called attention to the shortsightedness of this policy, in these words: By far the greater quantity of land within the Adirondack wilderness proper belongs to the State.
In the past dozen years, the private owners of forests in New York have awakened to a lively sense of the shortsightedness of the policy of cutting everything in sight.
And it is not till some stages later in our journey that we come to see how our own prejudices or shortsightedness or self-will are really at the root of the perplexity.
What wrongs may not his shortsightednesshave caused him to commit?
He thought that the law afforded but a slow and tedious way to make money, and deplored the shortsightedness of his father and his benefactor for not having invested in the mud-hole.
This mass ofshortsightedness is no use, since a man who can't use his eyes--how can he do anything later?
The Englishman in Germany often attributes German shortsightedness to the Gothic character of German print.
