Example Sentences

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I took a while to get there, but my wife supported me, steadfast as structural steel, until I did. She astounded me with her strength, resolve and clear-sightedness.

From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2018

Another thing I love about Twain is the way his clear-sightedness expresses itself in exact language.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2014

She was carried to the remote corners of empire as a talisman of English values; hardened soldiers in both world wars hung on to her disabused clear-sightedness.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2012

In announcing the award, worth $212,000, the Swedish Academy cited Milosz's "uncompromising clear-sightedness" in a world thick with moral and intellectual conflicts.

From Time Magazine Archive

His music, drawn by light touches, holds together by some mysterious link between them - and by his gift of luminous clear-sightedness.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall