Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a wide view.
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Examples
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She notes that "the Bank of Japan has been very pragmatic, very broad-sighted, and very calm and collected in terms of dealing with this current situation."
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In short, he was surely one of the most remarkably broad-sighted and acute historical witnesses of our country and our world in the first half of the twentieth century.
Orwell Now 1997
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The above will show why, when I met my father's cousin on the following morning -- with his grand, calm face, as benevolent as if he had passed a night of luxurious rest instead of sleepless agony -- I knew myself to be of a lower order in mind and soul and heart than his; a small, narrow, passionate girl, in the presence of a large, broad-sighted, and compassionate man.
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The above will show why, when I met my father’s cousin on the following morning — with his grand, calm face, as benevolent as if he had passed a night of luxurious rest instead of sleepless agony — I knew myself to be of a lower order in mind and soul and heart than his; a small, narrow, passionate girl, in the presence of a large, broad-sighted, and compassionate man.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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