blindness
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On this front, too, Ms. Southon’s sardonic commentary is deployed against the willful blindness of previous generations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
In a voice heavy with fatigue, she recounted more days of fever, sweats, hallucinations and temporary blindness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The work could also improve scientists' understanding of diseases that damage the retina, including macular degeneration, glaucoma, and congenital night blindness.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Tatel is legally blind and seemingly feared that the justice would act with factual blindness.
From Slate ● May 7, 2026
In my mental blindness, I had believed it was somehow connected with the ability to read and write, and I was sure that if I could get those skills I would have intelligence too.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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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
He does the audience the honor of allowing it to discover the blindnesses and obsessions, the sober lunacies he quietly lays out on the screen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He looked like the kind of man who lived on the blindnesses of others.
From The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill