blinder

“Ye who arrogate to yourselves that ye see more, or at least are not so blind as others; in your unbelieving conduct, allow me to say, ye are blinder than others; ye are even blinder than the most ignorant and illiterate.”

“From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.”

“Orientalism itself, furthermore, was an exclusively male province; like so many professional guilds during the modern period, it viewed itself and its subject matter with sexist blinders.”

“As it was, innocence was his blinder.”

“He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.”

“And we asked the blue winger, who in our game / had played what they call a blinder, to help out”

“If a man goes out on a blinder, he might be charged with being drunk and incapable and therefore have a criminal record, although he is an honourable man.”

“When the 'blinders' are switched off, and the audience's eyes given time to re-adjust, the new scene is in place […]”

“[…] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky”

“They think they're being focussed when they're really just blindering their eyes, as a farmer would a plough horse, to ways of getting to their goal faster.”