ADJECTIVE
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unrealistically or naively optimistic
starry-eyed idealism
a starry-eyed reformer
How To Use starry-eyed In A Sentence
- As the love affair was now over, it probably wasn't the best time to go starry-eyed. TICKLED PINK
- Not even the most starry-eyed geeks are claiming that an LCD monitor can and should replace the richest, most fully textured college experience out there (at least not yet).
- Those sexy curves, those glossy wet neon planes, the liquid marble lips, the starry-eyed bulbs and longing tips bursting out gravity-free -- can't you hear it? "The needle sticks and the penny drops."
- [T] he film's perceptiveness is frequently bracing, capturing the way starry-eyed proclamations and promises can foreshadow uglier truths, and - as in a sterling underplayed scene - the means by which simple gestures such as asking a girlfriend to call your relatives on your behalf can signal a momentous shift in trust and togetherness. GreenCine Daily: Flannel Pajamas.
- It may be a starry-eyed American leftist's idealization of Canada, or it may just be true.
- They are the starry-eyed optimists who cannot wait for adulthood to take the world for all it has to offer.
- It's not like I'm a starry-eyed teenager anymore!
- Independent, head-strong and may be more than a little starry-eyed about Bollywood, Mallika at least has the guts to stand up for what she believes.
- The students do not, for the most part, have a starry-eyed vision of the U.S. as The Country That Does Everything Right.
- Couples who began their dating relationships starry-eyed and dreamy all too often end them red-eyed and dismayed.