| Among other things, the novels work as a meditation on America's Calvinist conscience, its strengths and blindnesses, and the way that it moved from fanaticism to smugness in the century after the civil war. |
| I think of my intellectual life as a struggle, not energetic enough, against all the blindnesses and malign obfuscations of the Stalinoid mind of our time. |
| It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. |
| She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this. |
| Scholars of all ranks show how Wentworth was the product of a thousand horrific cultural blindnesses and Eurocentric brutalities. |
| We were learning to see each other's blindnesses. |
