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They embrace a purblind nationalism that prohibits them from seeing the world from any perspective other than their own.

Endless wars, purblind globalization, union busting, deregulation, lack of antitrust enforcement and the political influence of the wealthy have all led to a less equal, less opportunity-filled America.

There had been little in the contest coming towards the middle stages, even though the three judges had Joshua ahead at the halfway stage, one of them a purblind 5-1 up in rounds.

The peculiar case of George Edalji — slightly fictionalized in Julian Barnes’s excellent novel “Arthur & George” — focused on a purblind young lawyer of South Asian ancestry accused of mutilating farm animals.

It was a grave miscalculation, from one point of view, or, to put it less kindly, the result of purblind arrogance, yet Charles seems to have given the marriage his best shot.