dewy-eyed

Example Sentences

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But I didn’t do any of those things as a dewy-eyed Disney fan.

From New York Times

Ms. Hunt said she begged studio executives to end her run of dewy-eyed coeds and romance-minded ingénues and give her a better range of parts, even if it meant a drop from marquee billing.

From Washington Post

Ms. Smith’s sketch was competing against lavish paintings done in oils, but Gerber’s judges were captivated by its innocent immediacy: The dewy-eyed Ann gazes straight at the viewer, her lips pursed as if in wonder.

From New York Times

It came to symbolize the rapacious gluttony of that era — and its rejection of the dewy-eyed idealism of the 1960s.

From Seattle Times

When our protagonist, a dewy-eyed young man named Hughie, encounters the depravity of one such hero, he joins the Boys, a gang of misfits led by a mysterious man called Butcher.

From The New Yorker