(1) Well, you'd either have to be living in a box, congenitally purblind or maintaining yourself in a state of wilful self-delusion not to spot it.(2) Yet the claims made by the two administrations were the result of distortion of intelligence findings, not their purblind acceptance by idealistic politicians.(3) There's the purblind betrayal of stern poetics.(4) Instead he is faced with fake holymen peddling religious enmity and the purblind nouveau riche materialism of his family who bypass the country's problems in their smart new cars.(5) He was probably unsuited to the intricate problems he faced, as temperamentally - and despite being purblind - he was a fighting general not a diplomat.(6) But the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency charged with safeguarding the nation's 103 reactors, remained strangely purblind to the threat.(7) Only the purblind could believe that the Test programme has not been grotesquely over-extended.(8) The only defeat owed more to a purblind referee than any deficiencies in our play.(9) But is not the use of the cultural Other as a catalyst for one's own transcendent function a selfish, purblind appropriation, acting, against rather than for, crosscultural understanding?(10) As a stylist, Rothbart is terse but not flippant, displaying a genuine compassion for his purblind characters.(11) We do not set out to blame all bikers for being daredevils on two wheels who ride far too fast; we do not set out to accuse all car drivers of being purblind occupiers of lethal tin boxes.(12) It is fascinating to play someone so purblind to the consequences of what he is doing and so convinced of his own abilities.(13) To suggest that objectors to speed humps are a minority with bees in their bonnets is both purblind and arrogant.(14) Even when you're a purblind dogmatist who wants to shut it down, I guess you've got to at least pay lip service to it, which explains the name.(15) Wrecked roofs lie smashed in, as if they'd come underfoot of a Leviathan; whole houses, gutted and disemboweled by mindlessly purblind Minenwerfer projectiles.(16) Western politicians' fears represented wise caution in dealing with a revisionist power, not merely purblind class interest as Carley would have us believe.
