glassy-eyed
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After coming out fighting on the eve of this game, declaring his fire was "burning very strongly", Howe looked glassy-eyed in his news conference following this latest defeat.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
It’s the same species that transformed Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum into giddy, glassy-eyed children, only now drained of all majesty.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025
But glassy-eyed, meaty-bodied adults of the African clawed frog, or Xenopus laevis, have none of this regeneration prowess.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022
Their expressions were glassy-eyed and weary, their limbs weak, their blood sugar so low they could not stand without feeling faint.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2021
She did not resemble the patients in the doctor’s office, those who came glassy-eyed and desperate, unable to sleep or breathe or urinate with ease, unable, above all, to give words to their pains.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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