clear-sighted
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Citation: "Clear-sighted and luminous exponent of the liberal arts; strikingly modest but courageous administrator."
From Time Magazine Archive
Clear-sighted and tolerant of no incompetence, our young "Thorough!" seems to have detected Albrechtsberger's weak point, and there and then to have cast off allegiance to him.
From Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) by Graeme, Elliott
Clear-sighted men, like Nel, realised that there was nothing to be gained by fighting; the peaceful development of the country would best serve their interests.
From The Shadow of the Past by Young, F.E. Mills
Clear-sighted, master of himself, he saw love before him, and knew it when he saw it; recognised it, was ready for it, offered it, emboldened by her soft hands so eloquent in his.
From The Fighting Chance by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Clear-sighted enough to estimate the elements of good fortune that centred in Catherine Tonsard, his ambition was to succeed her father at the Grand-I-Vert.
From Sons of the Soil by Balzac, Honoré de
