Example sentences for: myopic

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

  • Our viewpoint is often myopic, with our noses pressed against the back row of the chessboard.

  • What Reagan saw through his myopic eyes was a general blur of smiling, affectionate faces--that's how he saw his family, that's how he saw the American people, that's how he saw the world."

  • Telling the story of a myopic adolescent girl who's persecuted by her peers and slighted by her suburban family (which reveres her pretty little sister, a goody-two-shoes in a tutu), Solondz prolonged his heroine's humiliations until I wanted to scream, "I GET IT ALREADY!"

  • It's hard to buy the trumped-up scene where the principal--another myopic patriarch--warns Dern not to give her students "false hopes" (although this does give Dern a chance to do her rubber lips specialty, gazing at the principal in wordless horror while her mouth continually reforms itself like some strange Gumby creature).

  • Anna Husarska's "Diary" counters the hype and myopic optimism surrounding the elections there.


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