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clearsightedness

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  • noun The property of being clearsighted.

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Examples

  • "Without speaking of your clearsightedness, which is so prompt as to seem almost like second sight, your examination just now was a master-piece of its kind.

    Crime d'Orcival. English ��mile Gaboriau 1852

  • "I have the disease to thank for this clearsightedness" (p. 500).

    Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos: Questions 2009

  • This is a call for clearsightedness for foresight and for action, and in each case I've demonstrated an ability to step forward.

    Joshua Scheer: Rep. Kucinich: Why I'm Running for President 2008

  • He saw also that there was a fortune awaiting the discoverer of cheap paper, and the event has justified his clearsightedness.

    Eve and David 2007

  • He saw also that there was a fortune awaiting the discoverer of cheap paper, and the event has justified his clearsightedness.

    Eve and David 2007

  • But with all this clearsightedness there was something that she did not see through.

    The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

  • It was the first 'inside' (as opposed to clinical) account of an autistic child's development and life; and it was written with an intelligence, a clearsightedness, an insight, and a love that brought out to the full the absolute strangeness, the 'otherness,' of the autistic mind.

    Leaving Nirvana Sacks, Oliver 2001

  • On this occasion, the Cuban Communists and the entire Cuban people express to you their total faith in the CPV's collective clearsightedness and in you, a combatant who has been seasoned in the struggle for the cause of liberation, unification, and social progress of the fatherland of Vietnam.

    CASTRO CONGRATULATES NGUYEN VAN LINH ON CONGRESS 1987

  • The activity of the Holy See aims at combining, in the best way possible, goodwill, clearsightedness, and that healthy realism which is the best servant of the highest ideals.

    The Papacy and the Challenge of the Modern World 1984

  • And in a flash-one brief instant of clearsightedness-he viewed upon the surface of his mind's inner eye the being behind the monster.

    Psychosphere Lumley, Brian 1984

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