open one's eyes

Example Sentences

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It is enough to read the papers, and open one's eyes, in order to feel willing to shout along with the French college students: "Power to the imagination!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah, my friends, might one not learn it at once, if one would but open one’s eyes and look at things as they are? 

From Sermons for the Times by Kingsley, Charles

It is not enough to open one's eyes on scenes; one must be able to be en rapport with them.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

One has only to open one's eyes to detect "in all its extent" the plot they have hatched, "the frightful system of destruction of public morality."

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John

One can open one's eyes, one can breathe, one can look around him.

From The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)