Sentences with phrase «become myopic»

When we see our marriage or relationship as inherently superior to other relationships, we become myopic to patterns that make us increasingly vulnerable to betraying the person we love.

But to force massive change in the economy based on such a fear is to get lost in the hothouse world of single - issue advocates, and become myopic about risk.

In addition, clicker training has allowed me to help dogs with what I see as «arrested development,» in that they have not had early socialization, or they are so fearful and / or reactive that they have become myopic in how they approach the world.

If you want to be successful, you've got to become myopic at times and prioritize in favor of your book.

Frank Hagen, principal at Saint Michaels (Maryland) Middle / High School, admits that educators can become myopic if they do not allow parents an equal share in the partnership of educating all children.

If you get too arrogant or full of yourself, you risk becoming myopic and are less likely to achieve what you set out to do.

Because I was emotionally vulnerable at the time, my own outlook became myopic.

Not exact matches

«You can become a little myopic.»

Why did policymaking become so myopic?

Conversely, audit committee members who come from professional backgrounds — former partners in CPA firms, investment managers, and securities analysts — may have a myopic focus or insufficient expertise in some broader financial areas that may become critical.

With a probability that slim, most become disaster myopic.»

It is now seriously time for the myopic British footballing world to finally start reflecting properly before it becomes too late and, perish the thought, before one of its «golden - boys» (i.e. Rooney, Gerrard or Lampard) suffer the same career - threatening fate rather than a very talented young lad from Wales who may now never get a chance to go to the world cup.

It has become fashionable in the age of county executive government to demean the old legislature as myopic, dysfunctional, parochial and ineffective.

«Myopia is not curable or reversible, but there are promising interventions using optical and behavioural approaches that can help slow the progression and prevent people becoming highly myopic.»

The findings point to a major public health problem, with the authors suggesting that planning for comprehensive eye care services are needed to manage the rapid increase in high myopes (a five-fold increase from 2000), along with the development of treatments to control the progression of myopia and prevent people from becoming highly myopic.

Set at the intersection of post-Vietnam paranoia and the myopic introspection that became hippiedom's most lasting cultural contribution, the Philip Kaufman - directed Invasion alternates social commentary with impeccably crafted scares.

The myopic disbelief of Andy's foster parents is especially aggravating for the viewers because their behavior towards him becomes cruel and we are stuck in a loop of Andy claiming Chucky is alive to everyone's chagrin.

Hoop Dreams is a sweeping, stirring, myopic study of two young men on differing paths, both with dreams of becoming NBA players.

Any group of awards bestowed by one group of humans on another will inevitably be considered arbitrary, political, meaningless, myopic or absurd (unless, of course, you win one, at which time they become shiny symbols of wisdom and insight).

Over the years, our Facebook and Twitter feeds have become a hotbed for unfounded claims, unverified or false information, and mind - numbingly myopic arguments one could only very loosely refer to as «rhetoric».

That last point is significant as more people become aware of just how myopic it is to accuse charter schools of segregation when they serve only 5 percent of the nation's students while ignoring the systemic and indefensible politics of segregation that exist in traditional school districts.

Listening to myopic pundits predicting the death of libraries because ebooks are becoming a larger piece of the publishing pie is sillier than accepting a cable news pundits» take on the latest political dustup.

There's a danger in reading, or in any intellectual pursuit, for it to become too solitary and myopic, but I believe a true intellectual has a desire to share, to teach.

Th 14: BPL, you will hear me cheering from all the way across the pacific the day you become far less myopic, not so narrowly constrained and basically far less biased and more open - minded about reality.

What becomes apparent, then, is that the vitriol is coming from the what is underlying, the subtext: «i don't want to pay for your dumb mitigation costs» versus «you myopic fool, we need to spend now to avoid spending later.»

This myopic fixation on anthropogenic factors became its fatal flaw, leading not only to a warped and incomplete understanding of what drives our climate but also to the politicization and corruption of the IPCC process and, unfortunately, of a good part of climate science itself.

As the climatic empirical evidence kept growing though, it became obvious these models were atrocious at climate prediction, specifically due to their myopic reliance on CO2 as the principal global warming forcing.

But this focus has become almost myopic.

As a result, it is easy to become complacent at our own peril due to a myopic focus on the relative stability of our asset class.

They were very hard to read because I've become scarily myopic in recent days.