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

All the ideals of her self-blinded life were being swept away in the glaring flame of reality.

From The Shield of Silence by Loughridge, George

He was a species of self-blinded human-horse that walked the everlasting round of a business-mill of his own creating.

From Digging for Gold Adventures in California by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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

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