Example Sentences

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The memoir circles closer and closer, painfully but clear-sightedly approaching the life at its center: that of Ward’s brother, the first of the five young men to die.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2013

I must have had some disposition to learn; for I clear-sightedly condemned my own performances. 

From Memories and Portraits by Stevenson, Robert Louis

To reckon heroism, to count, up opposing gains and losses, balancing them one against another in order clear-sightedly to act, is to render heroism impossible.

From The Nature of Goodness by Palmer, George Herbert