sleepless eye
Example Sentences
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Her sleepless eye for cant, necessary in all good poetry, is a bonus.
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2021
By the tranquil standards of poetry criticism, William Logan is a slasher, a burner, a brawler, a big-game hunter with a sleepless eye.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2018
She has a sleepless eye and dispenses observations as if from a toxic eyedropper: “Caffeine was my exercise”; “Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.”
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2018
Videts, with sleepless eye and listening ear, kept watch and ward on the outposts, while faithful sentries trod their beats around the great bivouac.
From Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran by McElroy, John
A man of poetic sensibility is one born with a sleepless eye to the better, an ear that craves the musical, a soul that is uneasy in presence of the defective or the incomplete.
From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)
