starry-eyed in English

adjective
1
naively enthusiastic or idealistic; failing to recognize the practical realities of a situation.
It may be a starry-eyed American leftist's idealization of Canada, or it may just be true.

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1. I'm not starry-eyed about Europe.

2. Some people were starry-eyed about their investment plans.

3. He's completely starry-eyed about his new girl-friend.

4. I remember when you were all starry-eyed about Rob.

5. I remember Jean coming home really starry-eyed about you.

6. My starry-eyed mom then explained to me who this giant was.

7. And I am not some starry-eyed waif here to succumb to your...

8. It's easy to be starry-eyed about a place you've never been to.

9. But this fact can lead to some unwarranted starry-eyed conclusions about the country.

10. And that is exactly what all you starry-eyed guys do, that get married young.

11. "Countdowns" I am happy, I am thankful and I am proud Said with a smile for the cameras at the countdown But if I'm honest, I am seconds from breaking down As you orbit, gravity throws me to the ground I'll be starry eyed I'll be starry eyed I'll be starry eyed for you

12. It would be very easy to become starry-eyed and idealistic about the land ownership study.

13. She was in no mood to display starry-eyed fascination, however much she might feel it.

14. But if there is no progress, then Mr Obama will be cast as starry-eyed and weak.

15. For example: "Sean. " The first rose could say, "Sometimes I get starry-eyed when I look at you.

16. Whether humans could ever take these trips depends on just how starry-eyed one's view of the future is.

17. It's something, as I said on the programme, that I can not be all starry-eyed and bushy-tailed about.

18. Even the most starry-eyed techno-enthusiasts have a hard time imagining, say, a Boeing 787 built by 'mass collaboration.

19. First shown on Yorkshire Television, it's now our turn to let the starry-eyed host show off his skills.

20. When it comes to talking about Chinese leaders he has met, Mr. Kissinger, the hardheaded apostle of realpolitik, can sound almost starry-eyed.

21. "If you make me your authority", said the Master to a starry-eyed disciple, "you harm yourself because you refuse to see things for yourself".

22. The company's core business was beset by competition, and it was still paying off mountains of debt from starry-eyed investments made in the dotcom boom.

23. This is a story about the love between a seemingly incompatible couple, a starry-eyed and mischievous high school girl and an all-conquering and powerful public prosecutor.

24. Not even the most starry-eyed geeks are claiming that an LCD monitor can and should replace the richest, most fully textured college experience out there (at least not yet).

25. Cabaret movie reviews & Metacritic score: Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles (Minnelli) and an impish emcee (Grey) sound the clarion call to …

26. Couples are often quite starry-eyed about their expectations of married life and unwilling to admit to anything which could show their compatibility for each other to be less than perfect.

27. If I went to Lago Agrio as myself and pretended to write a story, no one would suspect that the starry-eyed young American poking around was actually shilling for Chevron.