How to Use clear-eyed in a Sentence

clear-eyed

adjective
  • The time is ripe, then, for a more clear-eyed appraisal.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The show is clear-eyed and irony-free, the plot laid out in neat, straight planking.
    Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
  • This is the clear-eyed truth from a glass-all-the-way-full person, and that glass is about to boil over.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The book gives a clear-eyed view of all the major names in Bills history.
    Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Thomas Hobbes was one of the most clear-eyed and therefore one of the bleakest of social philosophers.
    John Banville, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Still, even the most clear-eyed among us thought the regression would be slower than this.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
  • That’s no small achievement for him and the others, but Peters was clear-eyed about where things stand.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Arden stages Leo’s lynching with clear-eyed horror, and Platt keeps him nobly prickly to the end.
    Vulture, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Jones is clear-eyed about how the RTO landscape looks for many other companies.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • With a smart aleck’s wit and a knack for clear-eyed lyrics, the Brooklyn singer is a sympathetic narrator.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • Check out the editorial for a clear-eyed look at Measure HLA’s effects, and make sure to vote!
    Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • All in all, that’s a fairly clear-eyed take on the predicament the Republican Party finds itself in now.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023
  • At their best, Pitchfork’s writers had the clear-eyed ability to cut through the artifice, mythmaking and PR around an artist to get to the heart of a record.
    Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Caijing, a Chinese financial news site, is clear-eyed about the benefits of breaking ground in the US.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Former tenants are clear-eyed about the fate of their possessions inside.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The essayists are clear-eyed about the power that mythology has over reason.
    Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Are newsrooms being clear-eyed enough with their audiences about the reality of the GOP in 2023?
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
  • But the loss in Ohio does occasion a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges the pro-life movement faces now and what will likely be a long battle ahead.
    The Editors, National Review, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Much like in the series, Burd has a knack for clear-eyed self-reflection that connects to something more universal.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The need to be clear-eyed and bottom-line-focused is essential for entrepreneurs across all industries.
    Ebony Flake, Essence, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Would that our climate fantasists could be so clear-eyed and practical.
    WSJ, 27 July 2023
  • The fourth edition of Puckett’s manual offers clear-eyed advice on the type of people who make the best managers, among other things.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Finkel, who has been to his own rock bottom, is both clear-eyed and compassionate about the downfall, but something more than sympathy lingers in his tone.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • Glasgow has an incisive cadence and clear-eyed resolve that, at first, may rankle.
    Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • That means analysts must also be clear-eyed about the very real problems and pathologies foreign policy faced in the past.
    Elizabeth N. Saunders, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The final result is a powerful artistic statement, focused and clear-eyed as Cyrus seems to have found herself in her thirties.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Among German readers, the diaries have become prized for their clear-eyed account of life in the G.D.R. and for their vivid portrait of a young woman artist as both seducer and seduced.
    Joanna Biggs, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Taryn comes off as pretty clear-eyed about everything and is quick to point out displays of privilege or prejudice.
    Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But, on the other hand, journalists also owe it to their audiences to deliver them a clear-eyed assessment of the state of affairs.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
  • And only an author keenly attuned not just to nature, but to man’s discordant place in it, could be so clear-eyed about the inescapable pathos of animal life.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024

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