Example Sentences

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If the case of Andre Thomas — schizophrenic, self-blinded and facing death by the state — doesn’t urge the importance of such forums, it’s hard to imagine what might.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2013

When at last the self-blinded Oedipus writhes and moans, Teiresias plumbs his insatiable pride: "He wanted to be the happiest of men, now he wants to be the unhappiest."

From Time Magazine Archive

And the miserable self-blinded old man could not see it!

From Alcestis by Murray, Gilbert

They are the self-blinded, self-hardened, self-deceived, who fancy themselves innocent and glory in their virtue.

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph

And so on, all through our hypocritical and self-blinded life. 

From Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Whyte, Alexander