clear-eyed

See also: cleareyed

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clear-eyed (comparative more clear-eyed or clearer-eyed, superlative most clear-eyed or clearest-eyed)

  1. Having clear, sharp sight.
  2. (figurative) Mentally acute and perspicacious.
    • 2009 July 2, David C. Nichols, “Theater review: ‘The Cherry Orchard’ at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum”, in Los Angeles Times‎[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 February 2025:
      Another is the smoldering radicalism of eternal student Terrence Moses (Marc Ewing, aptly intense), once the family’s tutor, now smitten with Anna and perhaps the clearest-eyed person in the play.
    • 2009 August 30, “Hope in South Africa”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 April 2018:
      The new government of President Jacob Zuma seems to have a clearer-eyed view of the problem, its remedies and the need to improve the overall health care system than its predecessor did.
    • 2011 April 24, Alex Clark, “The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee – review”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 November 2019:
      "The golden age is over," muses Tamara, but one of her clearer-eyed colleagues is quick to correct her: "The gravy train has been derailed, you mean."
    • 2022 December 5, Matthew Goldstein, “Ordinary Investors Who Jumped Into Crypto Are Saying: Now What?”, in The New York Times‎[4], →ISSN:
      They were cleareyed about the volatility and big price swings of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But what has come as a big surprise to many is that the firms where they deposited their money lacked the basic protections offered by a brokerage or a bank.
    • 2023 June 10, Roula Khalaf, “Lunch with the FT: François Hollande”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
      Hollande was always clear-eyed about Vladimir Putin, setting himself apart from a French political tradition that has often been more complacent about Russia.

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