| Only a tiny fragment of the age is treated here and the retrospect is fairly myopic. |
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| But this almost patronizing gospel of high learning forsakes necessary historicization and theory for more myopic designs. |
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| After all, why should the majority suffer for the myopic attitude of a minority, she asks. |
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| Originally they were portrayed as boring, myopic bean counters completely lacking in foresight or creativity. |
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| Legal and financial issues are certainly important, but it is myopic to stop at just these. |
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| We must lift our eyes from the misleading and myopic platitudes of our politicians and look to the future. |
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| In whosoever's hands the scales of justice is placed, humankind's cry for justice is myopic. |
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| As a child, Borges was acutely myopic and he went blind in early middle age. |
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| Could members of a gang be so myopic that they act in ways that betray their best interests? |
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| There are powerful incentives to operate on a basis of myopic short-termism in the public-funded sector. |
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| The LASIK procedure can improve myopic and hyperopic vision with or without astigmatism in acceptable candidates. |
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| This is much appreciated by geezers, myopes, and in my case, myopic geezers. |
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| And of the 5,000 children who turned up at eye clinics for further checks, about half were mildly myopic or shortsighted. |
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| However, the treatments do not seem to be as effective or as accurate as myopic corrections except in low corrections. |
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| The myopic child can be introverted, studious, and solitary, with no interest in ball games or outdoor pursuits. |
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| Approximately 62 million people in the United States are myopic and require eyeglasses or contact lenses for vision correction. |
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| Retinal degeneration is more common in myopic eyes but it's not exactly related to macular degeneration. |
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| They want to be hip and happening, but the peer pressure of a myopic public usually stifles a sense of invention and experimentation. |
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| This is a myopic way of thinking, especially for companies who want to remain globally competitive. |
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| If this isn't deliberate casuistry, it is at the very least severely myopic. |
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| The criticisms against bilingual education policy are myopic and focused on nostalgic notions of Americanization and assimilation. |
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| They found it in several Impressionist paintings in which some of the main visual themes were identical to myopic vision. |
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| I have dismally observed that our youth organizations are myopic, lethargic, and visionless in facing these challenges. |
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| Policies which neglect the environment are antisocial, wasteful, regressive and myopic. |
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| Unfortunately, chasing that myopic positivity lets bad people off the hook. |
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| Those that continue to espouse the myopic view that the environment is a barrier to competitiveness will fall behind. |
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| The risk with collage is that it can seem slapdash or myopic, its meaning opaque to anyone but the artist. |
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| And, best of all, her passenger: a mini-me clinging gamely to mum's back like some myopic clanger. |
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| But to leave out Parks and Recreation, which had one of its best and most nuanced seasons to date, is particularly myopic. |
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| The Indonesian elites must abandon their myopic ethno-religious politics and instead promote all-inclusive politics capable of accommodating differences. |
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| Attributing the last four years to either Republicans or Democrats is myopic American parochialism. |
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| Yes the myopic vision had gone and for once a unified horizon stretched out before them to the ends of the earth. |
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| Armstrong is a good conductor and a self-contained man, myopic by design. |
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| Only a myopic vision that expects current conditions to persist into the future could support such a claim. |
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| The genetic disorder from which the boy was suffering was his mother's myopic love. |
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| Service is the first major biographer of Trotsky to portray him as myopic villain instead of defeated prophet. |
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| The fight against poverty also requires a long-term vision, rather then the myopic view taken by the current government. |
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| There is something imposing and demanding in the myopic claims of these characters. |
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| It is a safeguard from a myopic vision and insularity through an outside perspective. |
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| What a myopic, blinkered clod their letters page editor must be. |
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| Our past reactive foreign policy is costly, myopic and leads to much human suffering that is entirely unnecessary in our world. |
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| But trying to impose such order by chasing away informal commerce and culture is myopic. |
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| For so many years, there has been a very myopic attitude towards the important work carried out by this category of staff. |
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| Highly myopic megalodiscs as compared to normal sized discs or small discs had a 3.2 times higher risk for glaucomatous optic nerve neuropathy. |
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| Corrective lenses compensate for the excessive positive diopters of the myopic eye. |
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| If the development continues into the myopization stage, the dominant eye tends to be more myopic and the non-dominant eye is less myopic. |
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| And he would certainly have abominated the recent French hit, Les Choristes, a sugary concoction that a few myopic reviewers have nevertheless compared to his work. |
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| To become so myopic and to use the words they throw around of corruption and the aspersions that they cast on the Prime Minister and everyone is so counterproductive. |
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| Being myopic, astigmatic or hypermetropic does not prevent presbyopia, but Essilor Varilux lenses can correct other visual disorders simultaneously. |
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| Amanda Harris, though, is deliciously funny as Celia, playing her as a myopic, repressed, head-prefect type who also fancies Orlando and yearns to whip off her specs and let down her hair like a smouldering sexpot. |
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| If the wish to live on is to prevail over myopic pushing on with business as usual, we have enough scientific know-how in the world to deal with our problems. |
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| This is morally wrong, and financially myopic. |
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| We muddled our priorities with the tuition fees cut … our priority must be early years And it is my kids, and your kids, who will suffer from this tedious, myopic and transactional schools policy. |
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| Once again, while myopic politicians preach tired sermons pioneered by President Richard Nixon about defeating the scourge of narcotics, there is a safer and more sensible alternative if only they displayed a little courage. |
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| The Russian people, who are moving on, who embrace foreigners and their country's successes, don't deserve to bear the brunt of the persistence of such a myopic view. |
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| Shortly before John Fowles's The Collector appeared, Enid Blyton deployed a couple of collectors in her 1957 Famous Five adventure, Five Go to Billycock Hill: her depiction of two myopic butterfly-lovers is slyly homophobic. |
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| Farmers may reap the benefits of this myopic thinking in the short term, but they will have to pay the price down the road if we do not correct the situation soon. |
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| Even if such was not the case, there is the additional problem that such prices also reflect myopic or irrational behaviors of investors or resource-holders, often leading to erratic changes around fundamentals. |
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| Investment treaties use a narrow and myopic approach. |
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| Fortunately, after the amendments tabled in the committee, we have managed to return from a myopic position to one that goes to the core of the matter. |
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| Lastly, in Asia, where most of the population is very myopic and the number of presbyopes is still relatively small, the market for progressive lenses is in an early stage of development. |
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| But it would be illusory to think that social development can be achieved through the worn-out myopic approach of economic development pursued up to now. |
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| Social programs are often paternalistic in that they are intended to overcome what governments perceive as myopic or inefficient individual behaviour. |
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| The examples we provide below substitute government risk assessment for what would likely be myopic individual behaviour were the government not to intervene. |
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| Reliance on these models led to a myopic focus within institutions that ignored the risk of a significant disruption to the financial system if everyone reacted to a large shock in the same way. |
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| How many rocks did she have to kick to find such a myopic, whining, self-centered, navel-gazing group? |
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| This displays the outrageously racist views many pea-brains hold of us, viewed through the wrong side of their myopic telescopes. |
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| It is the myopic and solipsistic vantage point of the crotch. |
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| In Japan, pathologic myopia and the associated myopic CNV is the second most common cause of blindness. |
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| In this study, we also performed a meta-analysis to calculate the difference in the SFCT between high myopic eyes and normal control eyes quantificationally. |
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| Written by and for a myopic, microscopical insomniac, it's a babeldom that puts all noveldom in the shade, that puts culture, with a sardonic laugh, in a cul-de-sac. |
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| The relative peripheral refraction of the more myopic eye of anisomyopia was shifted hyperopically, as occurs in isomyopia with similar central subjective SE values. |
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| Conversely, rearing animals with positive lenses, such that the eye experiences myopic defocus, results in the eye adjusting its growth pattern to become hyperopic. |
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| These students are finding spirituality apart from the dull rituals of organized religion and its myopic concern primarily with personal salvation. |
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| A stronger prescription for myopic night drivers is often needed. |
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| My wife. Daphne. Yes, that was, is, her name. For some reason people have always found it faintly comic. I think it matches very well her damp, dark, myopic beauty. |
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