Sentences with phrase «to see the wood for the trees»

I do think you're not seeing the wood for the trees here.

The fact that you don't agree clearly shows you can't see the wood for the trees.

With 243 features to choose from over just 12 days, it can be hard to see the wood for the trees when choosing what to watch at the BFI London Film Festival.

All this talk of a Dreamcast 2 recently may have gotten many of us all misty eyed, but perhaps we've not been seeing the wood for the trees all these years.

Vision is essential, but sometimes it can be hard to see the wood for the trees.

Having got lost in a thicket of detail, industry specialists end up not seeing the wood for the trees.

While heavily engaged in parish work I used constantly to complain that I could not see the wood for the trees; for almost any conscientious priest or minister is kept so close to the immediate interests of his particular job that he can not easily achieve any detachment.

TALK ABOUT NOT SEEING THE WOODS FOR THE TREES!

Now I and others like me hope that the board / owner can see the wood for the trees, but I doubt this very much as it is mainly dollar or pound signs that fill their eyes.

Think this business about Ozil «winning tough tackles etc» is making you guys not see the wood for the trees.

I look back with enormous regret and sadness that I was so pro-breastfeeding that I allowed my baby to go hungry for days rather than give her any formula — I really thought I was doing the best thing in the long - term, and couldn't see the woods for the trees.

Yeo can not see the wood for the trees.

Yeo's involvement prevents him from being able to see the wood for the trees, but he is clearly comfortable with his own investments.

But the former attorney general Dominic Grieve said Gove had been making a series of wrong statements about the EU and that he «can not see the wood for the trees».

In my degree, there was a large element of not being able to see the wood for the trees.

The fruitless search for the cause of the increase in illiteracy is a tragic example of the aphorism: «They can't see the wood for the trees».

Fred Pearce describes approaches to Garrett Hardin's «tragedy of the commons» that can't see the wood for the trees (11...

The immense popularity of denim doesn't make it any easier to find the perfect pair in fact, the crowded landscape can make it rather difficult to see the wood for the trees.

If you make a film about logging, you better be sure the audience can see the wood for the trees.

In this regard, while the debate about green infrastructure continues apace, some might argue that in failing to focus on the manageable indoor pollution threat, we are failing to see the wood for the trees.

Except here it's that whopping additional spec that makes it difficult to see the wood for the trees.

Sometimes writers get so involved in the plot they can't see the wood for the trees.

Joy is a typical teenager, so tied up in her own problems that she can't see the wood for the trees.

The phrase can't see the wood for the trees is most often used in a reflective situation framed by the word «I didn't, or «we couldn't», rather than «we can't» or «we don't», because it's generally only after we mess something up beyond repair that we realise we were focussing on a small and perhaps unimportant element of a larger whole the entire time.

(Some people just love this short - term variability because it obscures rather than clarifies the climate evolution — it makes you not see the wood for the trees.

Profuse obscure detail, that takes ages to for those who fully understand the details to work through (and longer, if at all, for those like me who don't), is presented and, somehow «O.J. Simpson is not guilty» because we all get lost in debate about it and can't see the wood for the trees?

He's too close to this debate; he can't see the woods for the trees.