But Trump's purblind desire to wash his hands of Syria threatens to squander that hard-won victory.
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Mammy is the epitome of Hollywood's old, morally purblind plantation mythology; Steve McQueen's film strove to capture slavery's incessant terrors.
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"Inside, fluorescent lamps shine on the beer girl posters and the old-time photographs and the purblind man selling toilet paper by the ladies' lavatory," Mr. Brick wrote in one article.
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It was a grave miscalculation, from one point of view, or, to put it less kindly, the result of purblind arrogance, yet Charles seems to have given the marriage his best shot.
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The optics of greeting the Taliban at Camp David around the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks -- and after the death of 2,400 Americans in the nation's longest and ongoing war -- seemed purblind at best.
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She saw herself as the most useless, vaporing and purblind of mortals.
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Hobart Art teacher Neil Haddon was awarded the 2008 Glover Prize for his work Purblind (opiate) The work is enamels on aluminium, and references the cultivation of opium poppies in Tasmanian opium poppy farming industry.
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12th Rep. App. pt. v. p. 37. Scrope fancied himself ridiculed as "the purblind knight" in Earl of Rochester's Allusion to the Tenth Satire of the First Book of Horace, and attacked his rival in a very free and satirical poem in defence of satire, an imitation of Horace., Cites: bk. i. satire iv. Rochester retorted with a vigorous lampoon, which is printed in his works,, Cites: Rochester works, 1709, pp. 96–8.
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The Independent, 8 October 1992, accessed 8 March 2010 In The Guardian, Michael Billington was more complimentary: "I respect Coward's blazing, up- front anger. In particular, he gives Lomas a powerful diatribe attacking the political confusion, economic chaos and press mendacity of Britain in 1930: a speech that is chillingly appropriate today.... What disfigures the play is not Coward's thumping message but the mechanical nature of Cavan's civilian Cook's tour and the easy caricature of soft targets: philandering press- magnates, pleasure-seeking bishops and purblind Lady Bountifuls. Surprisingly, Coward's social satire is less potent than his straightforward political anger." Billington, Michael.
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Donald Barr (New York Herald Tribune Book Week) wrote that Goodman seemed like "an itinerant peddler of sedition" who spoke of virtuous "dissonance". Barr considered Goodman "extraordinarily sensitive to children and adolescents" and complimented his "brilliant authenticity" when describing how children learn "defiance and embarrassment". However, Barr found Goodman's "purblind resentment of all authority" to obstruct his points and to leave his readers skeptical. Children, Barr wrote, are lost if they cannot find the limits they serve to test, and "partisan" Goodman was unable to parse the wickedness of continually "yielding, ... tolerating, understanding" children who must feel resistance against their transgressions to develop the respect they seek.
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"Now it seemed to me that in science ... even more than in the arts the great bulk of people ... were chasing a meal-ticket or social status rather than quenching any passionate search for knowledge. ... Within the rigours of their own disciplines, trendiness, deference to authority, purblind commitment to pet theories, however discredited, wilfulness, jealousy and One-up-manship were more noticeable than outsiders imagine. Outside their professional competence, they showed no greater resistance than non-scientists to mythology, ancient or modern ... and no less tendency to 'irrationalism' in everyday life. Even when their professional researches were models of objectivity and humility, these did not necessarily spill over into their private lives and influence their moral judgements".
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When Calamy was at Oxford (1691–2), he found Gilbert regularly attending the ministry of John Hall (1633–1710), bishop of Bristol and master of Pembroke, for one of the Sunday services, and for the other that of Joshua Oldfield at the Presbyterian meeting, an example followed by other Oxford dissenters. He was on intimate terms with Hall, Bathurst, master of Trinity, Aldrich, Wallis, and Jane. Calamy describes him as ‘very purblind,’ as ‘the completest schoolman’ he ever knew, in his element among ‘crabbed writers,’ yet sometimes ‘very facetious and pleasant in conversation.’ Calamy has preserved some of his stories, told after a supper of ‘buttered onions.’ Gilbert died at Oxford on 15 July 1694, and was buried in the chancel of St. Aldate's.
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Law addressed Arians and deists to turn away from their opinions: > If you are an Arian, don’t content yourself with the numbers that are with > you, or with a learned name or two that are on your side ... nothing but a > poor, groping, purblind philosophy, that is not able to look either at God, > nature or creature, has ever led any man into it. .... There is a threefold > life in God and everything that is, whether it be happy or miserable, > perfect or imperfect, is only so, because it has, or has not, the triune > nature of God in it. .... If you are a Deist, made so, either by the > disorderly state of your own heart, or by prejudices taken from the > corruptions and divisions of Christianity, or from a dislike of the language > of Scripture, or from an opinion of the sufficiency of a religion of human > reason, or from whatever else it may be, look well to yourself, Christianity > is no fiction of enthusiasm, or invention of priests.An Appeal, Works, Vol.
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209 Ţoiu sees Georgescu, Titus Popovici and Belu Zilber as advocating "the utopia of liberal socialism" during the 1950s, while Călinescu believes that his fellow critic "despised" Romanian communist leader Gheorghiu-Dej while respecting "the system which [Gheorghiu-Dej] had patronized", before the PCR refused De-Stalinization and accepted nationalism (implicitly marginalizing Georgescu's internationalism). Cosaşu also argues that Georgescu's own image as a "Stalinist" came from his refusal to equate Soviet and Nazi German totalitarianisms, and from his claim that Stalin "has saved all the capitalists" during and after World War II. The distance Georgescu took from the official tenets reflected on his literary choices, a process which ended with his own marginalization. In the 1989 obituary, Nicolae Manolescu noted that Încercări critice "are not the most 'purblind' [writings] of their time", their author being "on the side of valuable literature, as much as there was of that, [and] against underachievements". Literary chronicler and translator Iulia Arsintescu thus believes that, for all problems they raise, Georgescu's earliest critical essays can still be considered "frequentable" (the category, Arsintescu believes, even stretches to include Georgescu's pronouncements on the controversial Socialist Realist Alexandru Toma).
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