Sentences with phrase «not starry eyed»

Raab is not starry eyed.

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While it's possible to learn them on the fly, too many entrepreneurs simply don't, which tends to lead to trouble once a business grows beyond the starry - eyed startup phase.

The psychology professor at New York University and the University of Hamburg spent more than 20 years testing her contention that «starry - eyed dreaming isn't all it's cracked up to be.»

Perhaps Valeant and Pershing were just starry - eyed optimists and couldn't imagine, in their wildest dreams, that Allergan would say no to their proposal.

To LOVE your enemies does NOT mean to float around dopey and starry eyed, smiling in the face of your enemy.

Please don't be so gullible and starry - eyed about your «prophet».

One of my favourite lines from Mother Teresa is when this guy came up to her all starry - eyed and said, «You're such a saint, I couldn't do what you do for a million dollars,» and she said, «Well, me neither.»

Or, if he is a «liberal,» he can be shown to be a starry - eyed idealist» who is not capable of understanding «the realities» of the world of human affairs.

Only the starry eyed dreamers and believers in elves and pixies would believe we're going to win the league, while only end of the worlders would believe we won't end top four.

Nainggolan himself once claimed that he is «the best midfielder in the city of Rome and in all of Serie A», and when he puts in performances like he did today, you can't help but look at him with starry eyes and agree.

It's perfectly consistent to say that and at the same time say let's not get starry - eyed about a hung parliament,» he said.

Of course, we can not be starry eyed about globalisation — it presents huge challenges as our economies and societies try to adapt.

It's not good journalistic form to get starry - eyed, but interviewing the PM while sitting around the cabinet table is not a bad way to spend a Thursday afternoon.

In June 2013 McKee and Benjamin weren't starry - eyed, but there was a feeling they might spur action in Albany.

Despite what you might be picturing at this moment, they really didn't fit the image of the starry - eyed and half - drunk hipster that the term «liberal arts major» so often conjures.

Lilian, no doubt, expected to be whisked away on a romantic Oriental honeymoon, but as his daughter relates, «that Barnum was not youthfully starry - eyed and glowing over this marriage» was clear from his choice of activities for the nuptial reception: «The bride and groom spent the afternoon of their wedding day in the chairs of the only two English dentists in Calcutta.

But it's not all starry - eyed optimism.

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I know who you are Peter Quill, and I am not some starry - eyed waif here to succumb to your... your... pelvic sorcery.

It's easy to fault «Brooklyn» for its starry - eyed naïveté, but even if that's a tone that doesn't work for you, there's no denying that the movie accomplishes what it sets out to do.

With impeccable costuming, starry eyed romantic leads and a wholesome and earnest leading hero who would sooner jump onto a grenade, diminutive stature of not, to save his fellow soldiers than allow it to detonate.

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

This becomes clearer whenever the film arrives at an extended conversation between Beatty's Hughes and Lily Collins» or Alden Ehrenreich's starry - eyed dreamers, with the director favoring a more relaxed editing scheme that sees his less experienced employees waving off his eccentricities in a way others can't.

Honorable Mentions: 22 Jump Street, Afflicted, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Big Bad Wolves, Blue Ruin, The Boxtrolls, Boyhood, Calvary, Captain America: Winter Soldier, Citizenfour, Cheap Thrills, Cold in July, Dead Snow 2, The Drop, Enemy, Escape from Tomorrow, Filth, Force Majeur, Frank, Fury, Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Guest, Honeymoon, Housebound, The Internet's Own Boy, Interstellar, The Interview, Joe, John Wick, Locke, Magic in the Moonlight, Moebius, Neighbors, Nightcrawler, Noah, Obvious Child, The One I Love, The Overnighters, The Purge: Anarchy, The Raid 2, The Sacrament, Selma, The Skeleton Twins, Starry Eyes, The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears, Stretch, The Theory of Everything, They Came Together, Under the Skin, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Wetlands, and Wild, so don't tell me there were no good movies in 2014.

In place of Begin Again's insufferably starry - eyed music - industry idealism (where the big innovation that gets record producer Mark Ruffalo jazzed up is selling an album for a pittance and spending nothing on promotion), Sing Street features characters who don't really know what they're doing, to results both hilarious — check out their music video costuming — and poignant, as with Jack Reynor's older - brother subplot.

These programs are not romantic acts of charity by starry eyed western do - gooders, but rather serious, tedious, daily efforts.

I had heard so much hype concerning Kindle prior to Book Expo; I was half expecting to not see a single printed book on display and just thousands of starry eyed people hugging their Kindles.

Blowing kisses isn't only for starry - eyed couples.

He's not the only starry - eyed doofus who has combined delusions of grandeur with total cluelessness about the effort required to actually write a novel or screenplay and then get it in front of the public.In the thread of the same post at Writer Beware, children's author Kathleen Duey talked about the unsolicited - plot - idea people who want to share the profits 50/50.

Media opportunities are always this starry - eyed goal, because most authors assume that media = sales but this isn't always true.

Being a Starry - Eyed Stupid rookie, can't I at least fantasize that I'll just do a great cover, publish, give away a few ARCs, and word - of - mouth will take care of all the rest?

Not to get all starry - eyed, but it's worth highlighting Kentz» market cap is still under $ 1.5 B — a mere tiddler in the industry — which suggests its best growth opportunities may still be ahead, rather than behind it...

Wine Country Animal Lovers and Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch are not starry - eyed animal activists.

With the stamp of legitimacy her association with PETA affords her, Newkirk has not only been granted the unrestricted ability to kill without the scrutiny or condemnation of many so - called animal rights activists who grant her absolution, but it has given her easy access to naïve and easily manipulated young people who arrive on PETA's doorstep starry - eyed, desperate to fit in and looking for approval.

Don't get too starry - eyed at the promise of an early payday, says Capital One spokeswoman Sukhi Sahni.

However not all indie games are created equal and sometimes games like Drug Wars, if that's even what it's called, come along and slap our starry eyed stare right out of our eye sockets.

But I'm not doing this because I'm any kind of ivory - tower academic or a starry - eyed idealist.

This shift is not about a starry - eyed prime minister seeking to garner international goodwill.

Whether you're a longtime duo marking a milestone anniversary this year, a pair of starry - eyed newlyweds still in honeymoon mode, or one - half of a brand new couple facing your first Valentine's Day, it's time to start making plans for February 14 — but that doesn't mean settling for faded roses and drugstore chocolate.

In reflecting on the romance that surrounds Valentine's Day, I am reminded of the starry eyed couples who tell me, «we don't need a prenup, we're not getting divorced.»