I learned from Ted who guided me like a patient headmaster leading a purblind orphan around a country fair. |
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Only the purblind could believe that the Test programme has not been grotesquely over-extended. |
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It is fascinating to play someone so purblind to the consequences of what he is doing and so convinced of his own abilities. |
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The only defeat owed more to a purblind referee than any deficiencies in our play. |
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Well, you'd either have to be living in a box, congenitally purblind or maintaining yourself in a state of wilful self-delusion not to spot it. |
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To suggest that objectors to speed humps are a minority with bees in their bonnets is both purblind and arrogant. |
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But the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency charged with safeguarding the nation's 103 reactors, remained strangely purblind to the threat. |
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As a stylist, Rothbart is terse but not flippant, displaying a genuine compassion for his purblind characters. |
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Even when you're a purblind dogmatist who wants to shut it down, I guess you've got to at least pay lip service to it, which explains the name. |
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Yet the claims made by the two administrations were the result of distortion of intelligence findings, not their purblind acceptance by idealistic politicians. |
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Shift has invoked Tash, a vulture-headed demonic power, only because he is too purblind actually to believe in him. |
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Western politicians' fears represented wise caution in dealing with a revisionist power, not merely purblind class interest as Carley would have us believe. |
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Yet all but the most purblind know that the presidential election of 2016 will be hard. The basic causes are simple to state. |
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The wolves gather again the following day, a few suspecting the hero is purblind to all but his own ambitions, caught up as he is in the hysteria of his last days. |
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But Lord Hall cannot count on that, which may be why the BBC periodically apologises for having been purblind on acute Tory issues, such as European integration and immigration. |
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Even his most purblind supporters knows this is nonsense. |
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Finally, between 1880 and 1900, an explosive burst of experimental activity at last drove home the truth of germ theory to all but the most purblind of critics. |
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