dewy-eyed

Example Sentences

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Led by the subject matter, he started singing more, his dewy-eyed timbre adding emotional depth to the fragmented, impressionistic soundscapes.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

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

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2020

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 • Dec. 17, 2019

I first got to know this glamorous artistic couple when I was just a dewy-eyed English major at Oberlin College.

From Washington Post • May 15, 2018

Her life had simplified to one phase, that of dewy-eyed pleading adoration.

From The Westerners by White, Stewart Edward