The word
"myopic" means to have a narrow or short-sighted way of thinking or viewing things. It suggests that someone is not considering the larger or long-term picture and is only focused on immediate and limited perspectives.
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One could reasonably argue there were TOO MANY publishers at the Bookfair when you think about the relatively small markets they cater to for literary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, as well as the often
myopic focus on a single magazine, ignoring or discounting other ways they could serve their community while ensuring a sustainable future.
There are obviously certain business realities that need to be considered — budgets, schedules, shipping dates — but that's a very
myopic view of things not to mention completely inaccurate.
We can become so
myopic in our focus and forget the «why» of what motivates us, and our clients... Motherhood has allowed me to connect with my clients on a deeper level.
For anyone to insist that getting a shelter dog is automatically superior to getting a dog from any other source is just
as myopic as trashing all shelter dogs.
I just can't hang
with myopic hypocrites with a right wing political agenda.
Although they are quite capable of seeing more than one word in a single fixation, most readers develop an optical muscle memory — a sort of
myopic vision — that limits itself to individuals words.
And your view
so myopic, you might have noticed my posts on the night of the match.
The forum was convened to discuss how CEOs and investors can have constructive dialogue around creating long - term value that benefits customers, employees, shareholders, and society, as opposed to embracing a toxic short - termism defined
by myopic decisions.
He scored 32 goals after and got a $ 80 million transfer to Barcelona and we see
how myopic Wenger can be.
But we should be cautious
about myopic legislation when it comes to affording teachers and students the ability to reap the incredible benefits that technology can bring in helping all students learn.
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.
The customization of epistemological Conceptualism represents the most significant paradigm shift in living memory, as design professions migrate
from myopic design assignments — design me a toaster — towards conceiving the intangible commodities that feed the experience economy — design me a system.
And it's that conditioned websnobbery that leads to a kind of
myopic perspective on how advertising should be done.
That's why I like to talk with people who are going to be writing about me, rather than them all of a sudden taking a white
myopic approach to what I do.
Personally, I consider that a
very myopic view of common stock investing.
And... it's just that kind of
myopic world - view, that is so out of touch with reality, that will keep you and the «Christian Right» on the continued path to irrelevance.
We believe that this focus is
too myopic because it ignores the care delivered prior to the hospital stay and after discharge,» says Hollingsworth.
«It's a
bit myopic to think of it as just about Canada - Mexico,» he says.
A fixation on following black - box systems, chart oscillators, sentiment indicators like tick, trin, put / call, squeezes, etc is
more myopic view of trees.
There are plenty of reasons not to vote for any Presidental candidate — Obama included — but citing religion
seems myopic.
To think that dropping out of the top four might not affect who we buy is a very
myopic point of view (IMO).
«For some it is further evidence of the narrow - minded, culturally - and racially -
myopic nature of US evangelicalism, sliding into irrelevancy,» he wrote.
@gyitsakalakis No question it's both — social and search; law firms just need be
less myopic in how people arrive at content.
Many people have trouble seeing past the immediate problem and looking at the bigger picture, and truth be told, some lawyers are
rather myopic as well.
Because a world centuries in the future with iron - age beliefs constraining their wordlview to
such myopic possibilities by a sizable segment of the population is disheartening.
Until we raise our awareness beyond our
own myopic views, we will always think the world is no bigger than our front door and that others» struggles are the result of some wrongdoing (if we even think that far).
This is true, but can be
myopic because it's not like renters can't build equity in other ways.
If Democrat reformers want children to live in nurturing communities and not just charter schools, they must move
beyond myopic quid pro quo politics.
Many area residents see Earwax as a Wicker Park institution, much like
Myopic Books or the Double Door.
It's easy to get
myopic when a particular risk is front and center.
They're not incapable of logical thought, they're
just myopic.
And the absolute best defense against
myopic ideas is to travel.
There's even a whole sub-category specifically about sex: The Act of Marriage, Intended for Pleasure, Celebration in the Bedroom... Many of these types of books have an
almost myopic focus on a woman's obligation to have sex with her husband.
But to conflate such disagreement with the sort of persecution Jesus warned his disciples about is not
only myopic, but also a slap in the face to those Christians who face very real persecution around the world.
Coincidentally, over the same period, many American evangelical groups have adopted a near
myopic emphasis on expiation in their discussions (and presentations) of the gospel message.
Shouldn't an artist be allowed to express himself,
myopic fans demanded to know in regards to a top - heavy cartoon sorceress.
They come with focal distance and optical distance adjustments for letting you widen the viewing angle and aptly suit the focal distance and individualized
myopic setting for reduced distortion.
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.
Seeing the frenzy over a tax change which will bring in # 2 billion to the Treasury against the backdrop of largely - ignored cataclysmic economic gamble shows how provincial and
myopic British journalism has become.