Example sentences for: blinkered

How can you use “blinkered” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The film, directed by Steven Soderbergh, would be worth seeing just for Stamp's performance, at once rock-hard and goofily blinkered, and for Peter Fonda's wittily self-parodic turn as the suspected killer, a music producer who coasts on '60s counterculture easiness while his lackeys do the dirty work.

  • Movies that revolve around moral choices often have an aura of sanctimoniousness built into them: The audience is presented with the issue in the starkest blacks and whites and waits for the blinkered protagonist to "do the right thing."

  • The leather eye-patches sewn to the sides of the halter ( blinders in America and blinkers in England) keep a horse from shying by narrowing vision to the road directly ahead, the sense implied when we say that someone does something with blinders on or has a blinkered viewpoint.

  • Largent does have a kind of blinkered integrity.

  • He writes up his alarming conclusions in a 473-page book; full of startling facts about the changes underway in technology and the global market; larded with phrases in Japanese, German, Chinese, and even Malay; and punctuated with occasional barbed remarks about the blinkered vision of conventional economists.


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