ADJECTIVE
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mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow
much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument
chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership
How To Use clear-eyed In A Sentence
- Although Jameson is clear-eyed about the corrosive effects of modernity, his methodology nevertheless seemed to require his allegiance to secularization and to convergence theories of modernization; moreover, the acuity and insight of the readings produced by this methodology served to justify that faith a posteriori. Introduction
- Cullen often dwells on the innocence and clear-eyed religiousness of his youth - the holy water the family blessed themselves with before leaving home, attending Mass every morning.
- Their previously clear-eyed look of adoration is now decidedly jaundiced. Times, Sunday Times
- And yet, he was just turned forty was clear-eyed, calm-hearted, hearty-pulsed, man-strong; and yet, his history, until he was thirty, had been harum-scarum and erratic to the superlative. CHAPTER IV
- Her clear-eyed, girl-cheeked Joe might be anything but a prize-fighter. Chapter 2
- And "The Major and the Minor," with Rogers's clear-eyed schemer masquerading as a child to save money. Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead
- As a witness of the last days of this cruel and malevolent regime, Downfall is clear-eyed and unsentimental.
- She was so very clear-eyed about the foibles of her peers and wrote about them in delightfully wry ways. MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves
- too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow
- Without clear-eyed, informed journalism about sexuality, the public runs the risk of seeing sex-related issues through a murky scrim of ignorance and biased attitudes.
