1. His greatest plays are all plays of powerful clear-eyed affirmation .

2. We are clear-eyed about concerns like China's growing military abilities and intentions; that is why we are engaging with the Chinese military to understand and shape their thinking.

3. Clear-eyed, sympathetic and scholarly, she spreads the whole canvas, alive with incident and detail,(/clear-eyed.html) with places and people.

4. It requires practice to stay clear-eyed and fearless when the world is tipping.

5. Occupy such room makes a person clear-eyed, suit the summer and intertropical area to use most.

6. We are clear-eyed about the challenge of mobilizing collective action, and the shortfalls of our international system.

7. "So even as we are clear-eyed about the challenges ahead, so, too, do we see the foundation for progress," Obama said earlier in the afternoon September 1 at the White House.

8. Well,I think that's a pretty clear-eyed view,and a clear indictment, of what Kerouac is doing through the character of Sal.

9. First, one has to make a clear-eyed assessment of management's willingness and ability to change, at every level.

10. Marius was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt pained him.

11. Without clear-eyed, informed journalism about sexuality, the public runs the risk of seeing sex-related issues through a murky scrim of ignorance and biased attitudes.

12. UC-Berkeley psychologist Robert MacCoun may be the only person on earth as clear-eyed on this subject as I am.

13. Bedford is by turns hilarious and ironic in the best sense: compassionate and yet clear-eyed.

14. Its current experiment in Africa mixes a hard-nosed but clear-eyed self-interest with the lessons of China's own successful development and of decades of its failed aid projects in Africa.

15. As an alternative to this impotent "realism, " I'd like to propose a clear-eyed idealism, which recognizes that these are bad times but refuses to accept that the bad times are inevitable.

16. I was, after all, a kid and - let's be clear-eyed about this - kids can be incredibly cruel.

17. Rereading the novel as an adult, I came to admire it for its clear-eyed depiction of American tribalism in its three major manifestations: race, class and region.

18. Set in rough quarters of Chicago, the film offers a brawny, clear-eyed perspective — urban without Los Angeles or New York glossy dross — and an overcast aesthetic to match.

19. Still, if Wall Street was waiting to see if Apotheker had a clear-eyed vision of how HP can get its momentum back and keep it, he laid it out Monday.

20. A while back, I met a young man named Shamus at the VFW Hall in East Moline, Illinois. He was a good-looking kid, six-two or six-three, clear-eyed, with an easy smile.

21. You know, a while back, I met a young man named Seamus in a VFW hall in East Moline, Illinois. He was a good-looking kid — six-two, six-three, clear-eyed, with an easy smile.

22. Without taking stock of it, no sense of contemporary China is clear-eyed.

23. The poverty of his early years hence inscribed the Tramp's trademark costume, a creative imitation of formal dinner dress suggesting the authoritative adult reimagined by a clear-eyed child.