MsWenezenki-Yolland seems to be suffering from the same professional purblindness that afflicted Dr Beeching. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Times, during the American War, was cursed -- or cursed its readers -- with prophets, seers, and oracles, in its correspondents; and the prophecies turned out to be ridiculously wrong, the seeing to be purblindness, and the oracles to be gibberish. ❋ Various (N/A)
Aware of his defenceless condition in the bright daylight, when his purblindness would prevent him from evading the attacks of his enemies, he seeks some obscure retreat where he may pass the day without exposing himself to observation. ❋ Various (N/A)
The experts are in accord as to the purblindness of love. ❋ Henry Russell Miller (1917)
Victory, rendered cheap and easy by reason of the purblindness of the frantic cook, who was trying to persuade Mr. Green to raise his face from the floor so that he could punch it for him, remained with Joe and Ben, who, in reply to the angry shouts of the skipper from above, pointed silently to the combatants. ❋ Unknown (1903)
His eyesight had grown dimmer, but otherwise his bodily health had improved, for nowadays he ate food enough: and, as for purblindness, why there was no real need to keep watch on the sea. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Nevertheless, the most amazing feature in connection with this is the hopeless purblindness of the freedmen, for neither the tabulations of the census bureau nor the reports of municipal boards of health exert the slightest influence on racial habits of living. ❋ Unknown (1901)
What is less obvious, but more significant, is its purblindness. ❋ Edmond Holmes (1893)
It is true that it controlled the details rather than the totality of life; but the reason why it dealt with life, detail by detail, was that its exponents, owing to their spiritual purblindness, were unable to see the wood for the trees. ❋ Edmond Holmes (1893)
Josephine played upon his purblindness where she was concerned in most scandalous ways. ❋ Walter Runciman (1892)
Thus through the narrow views and purblindness of its official the nation lost an excellent opportunity of keeping the telegraph system in its own hands. ❋ John Munro (1889)
The minister's face and figure became a blur, and in the purblindness to which she was reduced she had a moment of clouded volition in which she was tempted to renounce, and even oppose, the scheme for a Social Union, in spite of her promise to Mr. Brandreth. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
The word spectacles, in Flemish, as well as the name of the suddenly surprised city, being Brill, this allusion to the Duke's loss and implied purblindness was not destitute of ingenuity. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
Duke's loss and implied purblindness was not destitute of ingenuity. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
It is to be regretted, however, that here, as so often elsewhere, the Professor's keen philosophic perspicacity is somewhat marred by a certain mixture of almost owlish purblindness, or else of some perverse, ineffectual, ironic tendency; our readers shall judge which: ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
I find I can pardon _all_ things in a man except purblindness, falseness of vision, -- for, indeed, does not that presuppose every other kind of falseness? ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
Unfortunately for Mr Pilger's thesis, the fact that all of Assange's supporters went off and attacked the wrong domain name registrar, despite ample and easy-to-find evidence as to their mistake, suggests that the "new journalism" is even more prone to error, purblindness, and the herd instinct than the "old journalism". ❋ Unknown (2010)
