Clear Eyed

Carter was consulting daily with the best military minds and some clear-eyed realists, with no shortage of hawks in his circle of advisers. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

Today, he tires easily, but he is clear-eyed, dogged and among people who love him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This was also about the time that his wife -- with the sort of clear-eyed convinction that sometimes only spouses have -- nominated her husband's portfolio for a Pulitzer. ❋ Michael Cavna (2010)

She learned to look upon danger clear-eyed and with understanding, losing forever that panic fear which is bred of ignorance and which afflicts the city-reared, making them as silly as silly horses, so that they await fate in frozen horror instead of grappling with it, or stampede in blind self-destroying terror which clutters the way with their crushed carcasses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Casting aside the inflammatory rhetoric and national headlines of the anti-ethnic-studies instigators, Precious Knowledge provides a clear-eyed portrait of students, teachers and their community struggling to deal with the nation's most unnerving campus witch hunt in recent memory. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

But Ken Khachigian, a Republican strategist who wrote speeches for Reagan, said conservatives "need to be clear-eyed about Reagan" and how he sought to implement the principles he espoused. ❋ Dan Balz (2011)

Shamecca has a clear-eyed view of what McDowell is up against -- and is hopeful that momentum for meaningful change is building. ❋ Randi Weingarten (2011)

This new volume, Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama, is a clear-eyed look at the Vietnam War's fateful consequences -- especially subsequent wars -- up until the present in Afghanistan. ❋ Jamie Stiehm (2011)

Without a clear-eyed examination of the problem along with some kind of collective determination to take it on, there's nothing any of us can do about it alone. ❋ Linda Flanagan (2011)

Her clear-eyed, girl-cheeked Joe might be anything but a prize-fighter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Turning to Jamaican poverty, “Serious Times,” his politically charged 2005 single, was clear-eyed and compelling, its shambolic bongos transposed into a taut, digital thump. ❋ Chris Richards (2010)

And "The Major and the Minor," with Rogers's clear-eyed schemer masquerading as a child to save money. ❋ Sarah Kaufman (2011)

They were of many breeds, but their common life had formed of them a certain type, -- a lean and wiry type, with trail-hardened muscles, and sun-browned faces, and untroubled souls which gazed frankly forth, clear-eyed and steady. ❋ Unknown (2010)