glassy-eyed
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Russell’s befuddled Jackson is as useless as a traffic cone but Blunt’s Margaret is a gas before the movie makes her go all glassy-eyed and solemn.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
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
Even then, before lockdown, I witnessed the glassy-eyed expressions — a mix of fear, confusion, and exhaustion — from students at every mention of the pandemic.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 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
We hid whenever someone passed by, but most of the people we saw were just glassy-eyed zombie passengers.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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