Example sentences for: clear-eyed

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

  • ) "Holy Ghost power !!" might sound like something out of a used-car commercial--and Duvall is as clear-eyed on the capitalism-evangelism correlation as the Marxist-leaning Antony Thomas in his skeptical 1980s documentary Thy Kingdom Come ...Thy Will Be Done . But Duvall also subscribes to an American dramatic tradition (which can be discerned in works as various as The Iceman Cometh and The Music Man ) that says that any fervent belief, even one based on uncertain premises and fueled by an impure source, can give life, the way a placebo can be an authentic remedy if it empowers the body to heal itself.

  • Feminists approve of the novel, about an aging rock star and her two abandoned children, because it coldly documents the woman's abuse and is "clear-eyed about the economic forces that shape women's lives" (Valerie Sayers, the New York Times Book Review ). Others say Allison "leans precariously toward melodrama" and tries too hard for "gut-wrenching emotion" (Phyllis Richardson, the Los Angeles Times Book Review ).

  • What clear-eyed calm!

  • Take a normal, clear-eyed individual, Vergil implies, subject him to love, and it will transform him into a physical wreck who cannot sleep and cannot eat because of his obsession.

  • As a counselor, I take issue with your response to "." I find your evaluation that she is wonderfully clear-eyed about her situation way off base.


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