dewy-eyed
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"A dewy-eyed nostalgia trip for one generation, and a pin-sharp eye-opening exploration for the next."
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
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 ● Sep. 10, 2022
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
As she stood there dewy-eyed, wistful, glowing, with loosened hair, the grasses clinging to her, and the dew, she looked like a wide-eyed child-angel newly come to earth.
From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by White, Stewart Edward
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