Sentences with phrase «without seeing the forest for the trees»

So little is written about end of life moments, the bulk of what I come across seems to be fervently focused on what's important in the here and now to the author without seeing the forest for the trees.

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Recent debates in the pages of First Thingsand other conservative journals over Darwin's theory of evolution and creationism reveal the degree to which Catholics seem stuck in the trees for want of seeing the forest, the lopsided degree to which the Church gives assent to philosophy without deeply exploring the particular science it considers a threat, (this journal, it goes without saying, excepted).

But you can't save pandas without saving the ecosystem they depend on, and the pull of the rare panda (or mountain gorilla or California condor) sometimes produces interventions that don't see the forests for the tree frogs.

Without asking this question, doctors can't see the forest for the trees.