Example Sentences

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What seems particularly unfortunate about the break is that each man had an acute sense of the other’s blindnesses.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

Yet reviewing also reflects an era’s biases and blindnesses; even food writers’ tastes shift with the times.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 7, 2016

Helen has her raffish and unscrupulous side but is also capable of engineering her own breakthroughs of insight, and of looking at her blindnesses square on.

From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2013

As a kind of self-made king, he falls into the first of his blindnesses, the idea that he can give away his possessions and his crown and yet retain power in his person alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this.

From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.