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

Sometimes, you know, it takes a big thing to open one’s eyes.

From Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story by Tarrant, Percy

It was very wicked to open one's eyes during prayer, he knew.

From The Silver Maple by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

It is no breach of the law of love to open one's eyes to facts, and so to save oneself from taking paper money for gold, except at a heavy discount.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander

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