narrow-sighted

Example Sentences

• "But few of those who see that incongruity, know that it was dictated by the narrow-sighted frugality of the common council who were its building committee, and who determined that it would be useless to waste margle on the rear of the City-Hall, "since that side would only be seen by persons living in the suburbs.""
• "Presumably in such an approach it is not important to attempt to minimise the costs of “narrow-sighted rationalisation' and irrelevant or impossible to monitor the performance of a state investment company."
• "Those involved in producing food and fiber in the United States simply cannot withstand another round of narrow-sighted budget negotiations which leaves them in an even more financially precarious position."
• "And if I were capable of that narrow-sighted joy on Adam's behalf, I should still know he was not the man to feel it for himself: he would have shaken his head at such a sentiment, and said, “ Evil's evil, and sorrow's sorrow, and you can't alter its nature by wrapping it up in other words.""
• "In this perspective, chasing the truth about what category creates most jobs internally is narrow-sighted."
• "Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but industry analysts surmise that one key factor in Crumbs's initial success was also the reason for its fall from glory: a narrow-sighted focus on the sale of a single product—those cupcakes."