(n.) One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.
Example Sentences:
(1) We found recently that the mutation Arg189----His decreases the affinity of HCII for dermatan sulfate but not for heparin (Blinder, M. A., Andersson, T. R., Abildgaard, U., and Tollefsen, D. M. (1989) J. Biol.
(2) Despite the promise of a layered saga involving communism, the IRA and betting syndicates, not a great deal happens in Peaky Blinders .
(3) It's true that Putin – or rather his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov – played a blinder in September by seizing the initiative on Syria and turning the threat of a US attack on Damascus into a UN agreement on chemical weapons.
(4) Yeah, ha ha, the cheeky peaky blinders are leeching an extra grand and a half out of buyers just for accepting their offer on a property.
(5) Still and all – the Visit Scotland archive played a blinder this week.
(6) The Institute for Fiscal Studies played a blinder, as usual, pointing out the Treasury's sleights of hand and misrepresentations.
(7) Historical gangster epic Peaky Blinders was a double winner at the Bafta TV Craft Awards ceremony on Sunday night, where the BBC also took home awards for its Doctor Who specials commemorating the show's 50th anniversary and the special award for Strictly Come Dancing.
(8) With Fitch due to rule on Britain's AAA after the budget, Osborne needs to play a blinder.
(9) The rules of engagement, of course, specified an embargo on political questions, but co-host Adrian Chiles played an absolute blinder, never missing a chance to draw Tony (if Phil from Ipswich can call him Tony, I don't see why I shouldn't) into a discussion on a subject about which he actually knows something.
(10) In addition to Peaky Blinders' 1920s gangland epic, the BBC also has Quirke, an Andrew Davies adaptation of the John Banville novels.
(11) I learned early on not to listen to either critique – the people who love you or the people who don't like you … The best thing to do is just put on the blinders, write the book that you would want to read and hope that other people share your taste.
(12) The BBC pulled off a bit of a blinder with the iPlayer this year .
(13) The players were more interested in keeping up to date with Peaky Blinders, Keane reckoned, but with reports of Hull City being interested in O’Neill, they really should be.
(14) "Hi Lawrence, if you thought La Liga's fixture generator played a blinder with this final match of the season, how would you describe the conjuring up of the last round of matches in Argentina's top division last year?
(15) The casting here is absolutely key, and Disney needs to pull off a blinder akin to Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk , or Chris Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy .
(16) Using the latest available figures – for the year to the end of June 2013 – Dr Scott Blinder, a specialist at Oxford University's Migration Observatory , calculates the difference between the number who arrived here to study and those departing who say that they originally came here to study at some 99,000.
(17) Peaky Blinders Sam Neil either shoots Grace or himself.
(18) Peaky Blinders Its producers will be wary of any "British Boardwalk Empire" comparisons, since calling The Hour the "British Mad Men" weighted expectations unflatteringly.
(19) Peaky Blinders Steven Knight is a writer with an unusual knack for coming up with quirky ideas that go improbably big: he created Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
(20) Tesco played a blinder and reached an accommodation with Unilever over the dispute, which was depressingly but predictably called Marmitegate.
Blinker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, blinks.
(n.) A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
(pl.) A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) He accused Republicans who have called the package wasteful and badly targeted as ideologically blinkered and of being obstructive without offering an alternative vision.
(2) We were wilfully blinkered, probably, on the exact details of this last point.
(3) I'm like a horse on the racecourse with the blinkers on.
(4) As those familiar with my novels know (especially Ulverton and Hodd ), I've always believed in the modernity of the past, from which our temporal conceit blinkers us.
(5) The lawyers who argued against the Defense of Marriage Act Wednesday urged the court to a definition of marriage more elegant than the blinkered "insert-tab-A-into-slot-B" logic of the anti-equality crusaders.
(6) "George Osborne is, in a blinkered way, carrying on regardless of what people know is the reality.
(7) Non-Indigenous Australia’s emotional nexus with the land – with its roots in masculine pioneering stories and blinkered notions of benign settlement, and for all its subsequent embodiment in the over-mythologised, stylised story of Anzac – is already stretched with the emergence of each new urban generation.
(8) The stupidity of the blinkered, religiously motivated agenda on display here is that no matter what legislation these men implement, they will never succeed in banning abortion, per se, only safe, legal abortion.
(9) For a host of reasons, ranging from haste to blinkered partisanship, all newspapers get things wrong (including the Guardian) and edit selectively.
(10) I am a resident and I am a mother, and of course I am concerned about health risks, but the anti-frackers are absolutely blinkered.
(11) Yes, the Tories historically haven’t exactly been that gay-friendly but unless you’re so blinkered to the fact that parties and individuals can change, then you’ll have noticed how David Cameron has been hugely successful in leading his party to a position where there is scarcely a tissue paper between the position of his party compared to the other two on gay issues,” he wrote.
(12) General secretary John Smith says he has sympathy for the FAC's attitude but thinks its campaign "a bit blinkered" and "counterproductive".
(13) Is it preferable to put on blinkers, seek out a desert island hideaway and pretend the World Cup is not happening?
(14) Charlotte, standing calm and still in the middle of all the flap and pother – the Bennets should award her a special stipend just for advising Elizabeth not to be so bloody rude to Darcy every time she speaks to him (I paraphrase) – and gazing with a cool, appraising eye on her own and everyone else's best chance of the greatest happiness while everyone else's vision is either blinkered with pride, blurred by prejudice or occluded by simple stupidity (Lydia!
(15) Watford’s speed of thought and foot was such that Newcastle’s fading centre-half played like a man wearing blinkers.
(16) The Treasury has always been at its most comfortable counting the candle ends: by rescinding this loan ministers have shown that the blinkered, short-termist, anti-industry mind set of the 1980s is back with a vengeance.
(17) "His is a narrow nationalism that prays for Tory success so that he can convince people that the only way to get rid of the Tories is to get out of the UK … Have you ever heard such a selfish, self-serving, narrow-minded blinkered piece of nonsense?"
(18) Blinkering the horizons of children must be wrong wherever they learn.
(19) Aspinall said: "She was one in a long line of people who had blinkers on about what the families were fighting for, the injustice of the inquest, and in preventing us going forward."
(20) Meanwhile, says Dotcom, an aggressive and outdated approach in Hollywood blinkers them from the potential to build a new business model around the internet.