Dewy Eyed

They say it is capable of turning the most macho of hunks into a dewy-eyed baby-kisser who says all the right things and stops going down the pub. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The two steal away, but in the end, Monroe, ever the sad soul, must leave her dewy-eyed friend and return to being a movie star. ❋ Felice Arenas (2011)

They were fine for dewy-eyed kids and paunchy, middle-aged liberals to whom his biography was a lure and not a problem. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

These patterns are more individualistic than the old institutional model, but while they do vary more than the breadwinner/homemaker model of the fifties, it is a mistake to think that they are based only on dewy-eyed romance. ❋ June Carbone (2012)

By this time, the dewy-eyed idealists had long since fled the CPUSA, a wholly owned Soviet subsidiary. ❋ Jack Cashill (2011)

NEW YORK When they first boarded the scarlet Hogwarts Express in 2001's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, they were fresh-faced, dewy-eyed ingénues making, to a large extent, their film debuts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Both King and Snyder eschew the vampire as dashing sophisticate or dewy-eyed romantic ( "King hates 'Twilight' more than I do," Snyder notes). ❋ Michael Cavna (2010)

He has the entire arsenal of film-making at his disposal, but can't seem to snap out of a now-habitual mode of vitality-erasing, dewy-eyed affectation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Now, before we get too dewy-eyed about GMTV, let's acknowledge it was not the programme it had once been. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In traveling to the homes of famous writers, he wanted to re-create, if not re-enact, the rather breathless and dewy-eyed excursions of Victorian tourists through the English countryside. ❋ Eric Ormsby (2012)

It wasn't long before she was dewy-eyed over documents showing evidence that her French great-grandfather Louis a waiter at the Savoy had split up with her great-grandmother in 1911. ❋ Unknown (2011)

No wonder that in the movies he is inevitably played by gleaming, dewy-eyed hunks like Henry Fonda, James Garner, Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner—he's the Platonic ideal of virtuous beefcake. ❋ Lee Sandlin (2011)

Their story was the basis for a recent straight-to-DVD ditty, called "Little Ashes," staring Robert Pattinson, who took time off from his "Twilight" duties to play a dewy-eyed, leaden-lipped Salvador Dal í. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2010)

Kinard, a Casey Affleck lookalike, provides an unsettling mixture of dewy-eyed sincerity and barely concealed insanity – he both attracts with his charm but repels with his odd demands, creating a wonderfully enigmatic personality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The simpler, dewy-eyed Diddy Eyes, Hold My Hand and Doom Wop adhere closest to the plan, but the songwriting is going to have to be a lot sharper if Mister Heavenly are to banish suspicions of concept over substance. ❋ Unknown (2011)