clear-sightedness

• “He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor

• “Likewise, there's no hard line between anti-racists armed with clear-sightedness pointing out the racism submerged beneath a "joke," and anti-racists drunk on conflict losing their perspective and -- yes -- their sense of humor.”

  SeeLight:

• “To the clear-sightedness with which he judges his troubled, post-war era — that of his mature years, and of my childhood.”

  Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture

• “The leader of the Party recognized this principle with unrivalled clear-sightedness, and has consistently applied it.”

  Fictionaut: Autumn

• “Heller's control of the first person voice (which veers between razor-sharp clear-sightedness and self-delusion) is masterful.”

  Christina Patterson: Interview With Zoe Heller: 'I End Up Loathing Myself'

• “The Spectator was the only publication on Fleet St that backed Thatcher in the first ballot – mainly thanks to he clear-sightedness of Patrick Cosgrave, my late predecessor.”

  30 years on

• “Of course, not every girl is as self-possessed – nor, perhaps, as bright and well-loved and confident – as my niece, and so not every girl is going to regard a Bratz Doll with the same degree of clear-sightedness.”

  The Good, The Bad, and The Bratz | Her Bad Mother

• “Weber's methodology in the end amounts to a call for the heroic character-virtue of clear-sightedness and intellectual integrity that together constitute a genuine person of science, or a scientist with a sense of vocation who has a passionate commitment to one's own specialized research, yet is utterly “free of illusions” [Löwith 1982, 38].”

  Fictionaut: Asthmatic

• “He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness and rectitude than ever.”

  Les Miserables

• “If only such clear-sightedness were more prevalent amongst Canadian progressives and a great many Liberals--check also the "idiots" at this post of Damian's:”

  Daimnation!: Der Kommunismus

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