Sentences with phrase «rather myopic»

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.

Karlstadt had in fact said just this about scripture more than two years previously but no one had bothered because it was said by a rather myopic officious academic whom nobody cared much about, and who never managed to project his message widely.

I've attempted to read the story as a God of Wrath, but it got complicated quick because I had to pick and choose verses and have a rather myopic view of who God is.

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They should have been ready: when the Times, for instance, ran a piece headlined «critics attack Pope for his «myopic» views on condoms», their reporters had to fall back on old general statements on condoms, rather than having a vigorous defence against the latest attacks, based oncurrent scientific literature, to quote.

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.

Of course, this rather underlines the myopic nature of the Hollywood - centric US media, who seemingly ignored the fact that Disney — the most powerful studio of all — brought Solo: A Star Wars Story to play at the festival out of competition.

According to a 2007 research paper by the credit rating company, Experian ¸ this tendency to be «financially shortsighted (myopic), favoring more immediate rewards rather than financial benefits in the future, leads to poor economic decision making.»

But to put it in accounting terms, it needs to be put into the long term context of building value in your lifelong balance sheet, rather than looking at it through a myopic lense of monthly cash flow and income statement.

One can only imagine what the world would be like if it were run by public - spirited men like you rather than the myopic self - interested sorts who have are blocking necessary action.

Agree w / raypierre, fear of China getting it if we don't is myopic, but rather than fighting TransCanadaXL, it's the Canadian and Alberta governments that need to be awakened.

As a geologist, I am highly frustrated by the asymmetry of research effort concentrated not only on the rather abstract notion of global average temperature almost to the exclusion of the other important climatic variables, but further obsessive and myopic self - flagellation over the human influence on trace CO2 levels.

However, this is mostly because the study there has been notoriously myopic, concentrating on finding more support for their theory, rather than on falsifying it.

That goes to something we've talked about before on the podcast which is realize that lawyers tend to be myopic thinking about, «There is a legal problem and I have the solution to it,» rather than, «My client has a problem, one aspect of which is a legal problem that I was trained to solve in law school, but there's a bigger problem that I can help solve.»