blinders

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• Up and down the plane I heard the slap of blinders yanked down over the windows while the rest of us eagerly took in the view.

• I told Eric how Rick Robinson had peeled the blinders from my eyes.

• Better to put on blinders, they say, and focus on home and family.

• It takes each decision somewhat out of context, and, in a way, puts on the horse-blinders.

• But why had I removed the family blinders, I asked myself, if I did not want to look at the full spectrum of possibilities?

• Everybody laughed, and the president asked some one to tell him who invented blinders.

• He says that the worst thing against blinders is that a frightened horse never knows when he has passed the thing that scared him.

• The blinders are there and he can't see that he has passed it, and he can't turn his head to have a good look at it.

• Reba pulled off her "blinders," as she called the sun-bonnet, while she ran.

• They are blinders that confine the eyes of mind to the road ahead.