Humiliated and self-blinded, he wanders the countryside. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)
You're as selectively self-blinkered and self-blinded as they come. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But I do want you to know: to a non-academic without a dog in the fight, you come across as preposterous, self-blinded, and, for someone who presumably has tenure, a sorry specimen. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And it's not just the gimp who comes to a tragic end, self-blinded and exiled, so do his father and mother. ❋ Steve Perry (2009)
As with alanadale, you are voluptuous with incomprehension and accompanying conceits, reflecting a seemingly willful self-blinkered and self-blinded quality. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Swallowing the talking points without digesting them makes you a lemming, a self-blinded follower, a tool. ❋ Unknown (2006)
That always was obvious enough but post-9/11 realities have made it stark, such that only the obdurately self-blinded and the gifted casuist can deny it. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But it is not enough to satisfy Lear's self-blinded feelings of entitlement to all. ❋ Bevington, David (2002)
Similar “Potemkin fields” were shown off to gullible—or self-blinded—agricultural scientists, reporters, visitors from other regions, and foreigners. ❋ Jung Chang (1991)
Satan, and his colleagues, self-blinded, suppose that they can war with and overcome even Christ and His hosts of saints; and, determined to do this: "_the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against His Anointed_." ❋ Sidney Watson (N/A)
Mr. Penrose knelt by the bedside of the poor mammon-worshipper -- self-blinded and hardened by the god of this world -- and with a full soul cried: ❋ Marshall Mather (N/A)
Through the lips of the self-blinded Oedipus, Sophocles makes mention of this secret place. ❋ Else C. M. Benecke (N/A)
All the ideals of her self-blinded life were being swept away in the glaring flame of reality. ❋ George [Illustrator] Loughridge (N/A)
I sat for a long while thinking, and when I remembered the sin and shame and misery which an unrighteous marriage -- for as such it would be held in Erewhon -- would entail, I became thoroughly ashamed of myself for having been so long self-blinded. ❋ Unknown (1910)
I shall not attempt to urge the causes for which divorce should, or should not, be granted; for, as will appear directly, I want a much simpler and more radical reform: also I hold it folly to try to convince the self-blinded. ❋ Unknown (1897)
Oh, he would rouse the hearts of men from paltry greed and covetousness, .. from lust, and hatred, and all things evil, -- no matter if he lost his own life in the effort, he would still do his utmost best to lift, if only in a small degree, the deepening weight of self-wrought agony from self-blinded mankind! ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)
It is a refutation of the unscientific assumptions of a good many would-be scientific men, who are self-blinded by their theories of development to obvious facts in the mental powers of uncultivated tribes. ❋ Daniel Garrison Brinton (1868)
Erewhon -- would entail, I became thoroughly ashamed of myself for having been so long self-blinded. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
“Damn! I [look] good. [Oops] I got [self-blinded]” ❋ Flowegirl (2020)