Cable showed what a short-sighted theory that was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Reality] Reference

This was not only craven of CBS but short-sighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutless At Cbs] Reference

Such jealousy is a strangely short-sighted mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference

What kind of short-sighted people vote out the maid?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: Tongue Digging] Reference

To me, in some ways, it might have been short-sighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Myth of the Evangelical Voting Bloc] Reference

We are short-sighted, and fail to see the end of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

How deplorably short-sighted are the wise ones of your world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

O, the bitter disappointments that overtake short-sighted man!.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference

Such large increase is often opposed by short-sighted economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Family and it's Members] Reference

Lily made herself short-sighted to the point of absolute blindness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

The short-sighted, irresponsible proposals far outweigh the good ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary D. Bass, Ph.D.: GOP 'Pledge' Is Simply a Way of Shutting Down a Large Part of Government] Reference

But the NRA is commonly short-sighted, and this situation is no different.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wayne Pacelle: Prop 109: A Power Grab Bad for Arizona Voters and Wildlife] Reference

Lily pretended to be short-sighted, so as to see no one in the rotten lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

The more I thought about this, however, my advice seemed a little short-sighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirits: Spiced rum beyond the Captain] Reference

That was always short-sighted; now that his assessment has leaked, it's untenable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is It Amateur Hour in the White House?] Reference

Personally, I think short-sighted approaches to education reform show true naivety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Gall: To Help Our Schools, Let's End Poverty] Reference

This principle has been acted upon by short-sighted Boston too long; and the result is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876] Reference

When a man is short of money he finds most of his friends whom he meets short-sighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Pun Book] Reference

How short-sighted his policy is, in this point of view, it would be no difficult task to prove.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference

They are short-sighted because they repeat past mistakes and do not stop unauthorized immigration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Federico F. Peña: Spain's Arizona] Reference

As she climbed the stairs, Lily screwed up her eyes, like a short-sighted person, for fear of meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

Have we become so short-sighted that we believe that we can get rid of unemployment in a matter of months?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georges Ugeux: The World Watches America's Disappointment With President Obama In Disbelief] Reference

The Demos report described this as "short-sighted" given the number of graduates taking unpaid internships.    From Wordnik.com.  [A third of new male graduates would swap work for childcare] Reference

This view is derived from a somewhat short-sighted reading of the Sentimental Journey: the obvious Sterne of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

It might be supposed that this measure would prove costly to employers, but this is only a short-sighted view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference

This pervasive attitude that the shortcomings of a nation fall on the backs of one generation is short-sighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martha St Jean: The Good of Gen-Y] Reference

Cowper's fate to be exposed to that brilliant but unsympathetic criticism which is the most short-sighted kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

German trade unions and members of the political opposition called cuts to the welfare system unjust and short-sighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany Introduces Austerity Measures] Reference

If I were more severely short-sighted and wanted to avoid glasses or contacts, one option would have been laser eye surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Implantable contacts are safer than laser eye surgery] Reference

Her short-sighted eyes contracted in their usual fashion as she watched the couple disappear down the vista of the corridor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

That's the short-sighted equivalent of teasing your younger brother, even if he had the power to turn you to stone with just a look.    From Wordnik.com.  [3D Clashes With 'Titan's' Remake] Reference

The short-sighted teacher looked up at her -- stared, evidently without identifying her charge for the moment -- and then gave voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

"The market is very short-sighted right now, and very confused," said Terry Morris, co-portfolio manager at National Penn Investors Trust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold at New High, $1,269.70] Reference

Can we put into one class those who preach a short-sighted selfishness or a calculating egoism and those who urge upon us the law of love?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

That the decisions of a rational mind reveal both a unity and a harmony not evinced by a mind short-sighted and impulsive cannot be denied.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

They are incredibly short-sighted and muddle-headed in matters that are outside their businesses but affect the possible survival of business in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Friedmanite argument for regulation] Reference

It is this very short-sighted conservative thinking that has gripped right-leaning Democrats and restrained them from supporting more robust jobs legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Scher: The Conservative Jobs Plan: Trash Teachers, Slash Pay, Bash Public Servants] Reference

The BP spill is a catastrophe, but short-sighted policies that have nothing to do with drilling safety could have much worse consequences for our nation as a whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congress's Hugo Ch] Reference

Those customers may feel good exiting the store with change in their pockets, but it's a short-sighted strategy, says Tod Marks, a senior project editor at Consumer Reports.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watching Us Save, One Cart At A Time] Reference