Sentences with phrase «gleam in her eye of»

Public financing of campaigns might go a long way toward taking some of the money out of politics, but public financing is more a gleam in the eyes of good - government types than a thought in the minds of givers and takers.

The advantage of a quantum computer over its classical counterpart has long put a gleam in the eye of physicists.

Brown, meanwhile, has the wicked gleam in her eye of a raging, on - the - warpath, manic - sad compulsive, which works well in contrast with Walter's more baseline, normalized exasperation at the unfolding situation.

When I see that realization gleam in the eye of an individual in relationship distress, that distress always lessens.

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«Phosphorescent gleams the point of the penis / rudiments or relics, disappearing, appearing, / live in the forlorn focus of the intellect, / eyes and ears, the turmoil of the mind of sensation» is one of the stranger quatrains, describing the emperor of Byzantium, stripped of his cope.

«Now shall you deal with me, O prince, and all the powers of hell,» she proclaims, as she rises in a mushroom cloud (the great symbol of unleashed evil in that Cold War era) to transform herself into an enormous horned and bat - winged dragon with Fantasia's Satan's gleaming, slitlike eyes.

That was in the early»70s, when with long hair, bobbles, bangles and beads and a gleam of communitarian utopianism in my eyes, I finally found my way into the fourth century treatise by Nemesius, peri phuseos anthropon («On the Nature of the Human»), where it at length dawned on me that ancient wisdom could be the basis for a deeper critique of modern narcissistic individualism than I had yet seen.

My son sits on his bier, his death undone, the flash of heaven gleaming in his eyes.

Is the galley shrinking or is it merely Tom Copeland — a stout bear of a man with a grizzled beard and gleaming eyes — closing in on you?

They appeal to his status as the Pitcher of the»80s, or his performance in Game 7, or his tenacity, or that gleam in his eye that made you feel like you were going to be alright, or the smell of his aftershave as he cradled the rest of the team in his arms, or... whatever they feel like appealing to.

Past olive groves forming an animal print of the landscape, eventually giving way to gleaming wheat fields and haystacks seemingly still wet from van Gogh's brush and assembled with Cezanne's eye, it is hard to imagine any city in the world ensnaring your heart with more force of raw beauty.

For the others, the ones with that Rock Around the Clock gleam in their eyes and combs forever swishing through their hair, it is «full of kicks, man.»

With a confident nod, usually, and a gleam of conviction in their eye, the customer would sit a little straighter in their chair and declare: «I think I'll try that, then.»

As Rogers put it, «I saw him get a gleam of confidence in his eye after he survived the 10th.

From approved plans to ideas that are just beyond a gleam in the eye, here are a few of the proposals under development at the Chicago Park District:

We should have a gleam in our eye about the opportunities that the next Conservative Government will have to cut childcare red tape, increase supply and at least stabilise the price of childcare.

Steve: Scientific American editor George Musser has been following the development of the LHC since it was a gleam in physicists» [eyes].

My (always thin) mother told me she was proud of me; she had the same gleam in her eye that she had when I completed graduate school.

Check out that special gleam in her eye and take note of how she reacts to you.

The High Dynamic Range gives the gloomy overcast skies, flickering torch flames, and gleaming metal a bright but completely life - like intensity, and brings out extraordinary subtleties of color in the costumes and landscapes — seemingly every shade of green, brown, and blue - gray is there to dazzle the eye.

If you couldn't tell from the reminiscent gleam in their eye, you might be able to from their past photos, in which the actors» heads are ridiculously Photoshopped onto hard bodies of youth.

It was enough to see the gleam in Brazier's eye to know of his pride.

showing how little of it they were learning long before NCLB was even a gleam in George W. Bush's eye, indeed long before he became governor of Texas.

Nonetheless, finding some way to overturn Rodriguez is a gleam in the collective eye of all those litigants who want to use courts both to increase school spending and to equalize it within states and even nationally.

A ghostly phosphorescence, a gleaming flash, its large eyes unblinking as it slipped into a seam in the current, then rose toward the luminous surface where a school of tuna was pecking at the tiny larvae and crustaceans snagged on a weed line.

In the very early days of Kindle, when its eInk screen was just a gleam in Jeff Bezos's eye, Amazon was smart enough to realize it had never done manufacturing beforIn the very early days of Kindle, when its eInk screen was just a gleam in Jeff Bezos's eye, Amazon was smart enough to realize it had never done manufacturing beforin Jeff Bezos's eye, Amazon was smart enough to realize it had never done manufacturing before.

Nonetheless, Dog Boy finds its strength in Hornung's attention to descriptive detail, and images such as the «frozen puddles here and there [that give] a dull gleam, wrinkled like the eyes of dead fish» or Romochka's tiny thumb that had at one point been sucked to «its perfect shape» or the intricate knowledge of Moscow's metro system stay with the reader and create bursts of literary delight.

Her parents, looking in on her and seeing her with her cheek pressed against the floor, thought that she had fallen asleep, and her father tiptoed into the room to lift her into bed, only to be disconcerted by the gleam of her wide - open eyes over the top of her arm.

I couldn't stop thinking about how these churches had been standing for hundreds of years before the United States was even a gleam in Christopher Columbus» eye.

The blade gleamed and he caught its light in the corner of his eye.

The little white dogs danced on hind legs, paws waving in the air, black button eyes gleaming with intelligence and a touch of mischief.

The distinctive markings on the coat and face are breed hallmarks and, combined with the intelligent gleam in the dark eyes, add to the Berner's aura of majestic nobility.

With my eyes closed, I can still vividly remember taking in deep breaths of fresh ocean air coming in through the open car window and the sun warming my face whilst gleaming through pine tree tops.

he asks, probably slowly reaching into a can of worms with a wicked gleam in his eye.

The limestone crags of Railay Bay, Thailand; the gleaming white hillside town of Mojácar, Spain; the torch - lit tour of caves in central Vietnam full of hand - sized spiders and their glinting jewel - like clusters for eyes; the volcano - pierced horizon of central Mexico; the humbling beauty and breadth of national parks in New South Wales, Australia — these all have similar proportions in my memory to Angkor, in that they compare favorably to what I've seen in video games.

Reports indicate that a frowning, concentrating Shelton visibly aged in front of his loved ones — his skin sagging and wrinkling, his hair turning snowy white, and his eyes gleaming with decades of suddenly - acquired wisdom; before keeling over with a triumphant smile on his face.

The gleam of nostalgia in people's eyes were finally there in this video, and it was the first time I actually saw, in my opinion, genuine passion for the game.

In photographs, he often appeared to be on the verge of laughter; small, gleaming eyes behind wire - framed glasses and a sharp V of eyebrows added a sardonic if not demonic note.

These include Early Sculpture, a grey patinated steel pillar that rises to eye - level, and Let's All Chant, a geometric composition of flat, intersecting metal planes painted in a gleaming candy - pink.

Here are people, landscapes, and odd little moments in and around Eggleston's hometown of Memphis — an anonymous woman in a loudly patterned dress and cat's eye glasses sitting, left leg slightly raised, on an equally loud outdoor sofa; a coal - fired barbecue shooting up flames, framed by a shiny silver tricycle, the curves of a gleaming black car fender, and someone's torso; a tiny, gray - haired lady in a faded, flowered housecoat, standing expectant, and dwarfed in the huge dark doorway of a mint - green room whose only visible furniture is a shaded lamp on an end table.

Among the surging crowds of hundreds of thousands of folks at the People's Climate March on September 21 in New York, you will see marchers in pointy green felt hats, and if you are lucky, a fully garbed Robin Hood replete with green tights, leather vest and that signature gleam in the eye.

Legal Tweets consists entirely of collections of «tweets» from lawyers about various law - related issues, and in 2005, Twitter was yet a gleam in its creators» eyes.

From the moment the Affordable Care Act was but a gleam in Barack Obama's eye, the parable of the blind men and the elephant has seemed particularly apt.

Artificial Lawyer has had the privilege to get to know a large number of inspiring people working in this field, from founders with a creative gleam in their eyes and mind - boggling AI tech experts, to the many people that bring attention to this new and growing industry such as other writers on the subject (special shout out to Fredrik Svärd!)

At my law school, in addition to the common first year subjects — torts, property, contracts, criminal law, legal systems and judicial process and legal writing — we were required to take administrative law, evidence, civil procedure, insurance, constitutional law (division of powers, that is — the Charter was not yet a gleam in anyone's eye), jurisprudence, company law, sale of goods, secured transactions, trusts and family law.

Sure, plenty of cowards still showed up with a foolish but optimistic gleam in their eye.

When I watched the Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer on the Pixel 2's display, the golden orange around the insanely cute porg's eyes popped against its white fur, and the reflection of two clashing weapons in Captain Phasma's gleaming, silver helmet looked gorgeous.

Defrocked free - loaders look all the same... they all have that gleam of envious avarice in their eyes; no amount of clothing or smooth talk or feigned indignation about how they are being treated by those who have created and worked for and paid for their place in the pecking order can conceal their protestations against a lack of «wants».