Open Eyed

Honest, open-eyed experimentation on a significant scale looks to be a precursor for our movement into a more localized adaptation-ready era, and this fella seems to be willing to roll the dice in the right direction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The open-eyed wonderment conveyed by this passage cannot, for me, mitigate the otherwise bland prose and the cloying and cliched effect it produces. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Attlee is generally a good-natured guide, at once open-eyed and sceptical, but once in a while his equilibrium vanishes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We should be open-eyed, I think, at the many ways in which we are invited to enjoy our places. ❋ Agnes Gund (2010)

The spectral forms of the lost pack were all about him as he sang and ran in open-eyed dream; the violinist paused in surprise; the men poked the monkey leader of the monkey orchestra and whirled him about wildly raging on his revolving stool; and Johnny laughed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was just as open-eyed towards us and the UCB in this comedy basement as we were to this megawatt star. ❋ Ross Luippold (2011)

Sometimes I fall into an open-eyed trance reading lines of a poem, a short story, until my eyes lose focus. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His closing line: "I bow my head to the youth of Iran, the youth that is open-eyed, bold and far stronger and more numerous than the near-beardless vigilantes." ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2009)

Back in Beijing, China's leaders must be smiling as they watch Washington walk open-eyed into another potential quagmire. ❋ Sadia Ahsanuddin (2011)

It would be very wise for us to be open-eyed about Paris' grand designs. ❋ Amb. Marc Ginsberg (2011)

The first is a blind mating of the blind; the second, a clear and open-eyed union of male and female who find enough in common to warrant that union. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a 2001 speech that has prompted wide debate and is likely to be part of her nomination hearings, Sotomayor, now a judge on a federal appeals court, described her concept of an open-eyed justice: one who aspires to impartiality but cannot be divorced from her gender, ethnicity and upbringing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Despite her heavy heart she watched in open-eyed wonder as together they left the Bay of Lost Dolphins, left the jagged rocks of the coast, and headed out to the open sea. ❋ Unknown (2009)