Sentences with phrase «wide eyed at»

There's a very simple pleasure to be had in bringing the words to life whist the little ones look on wide eyed at the pictures.

Even my mum was wide eyed at how good it was and she won't go near my green smoothies!

Maison & Objet 2014: this flat circular lamp by Japanese designer Jun Yasumoto was designed to resemble an owl's wide eyes at night.

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Our eyes were wide open with excitement at the opportunity of what could happen if we made a shift.

«You have to know what you're going for, and do it with your eyes wide open,» says Francisco Dao, founder and president of The Killer Pitch, a firm based in Tarzana, California, that helps companies and entrepreneurs refine their message, and former business coach and columnist for Inc. «Look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself what it's going to take to achieve your goals.»

Personal feats of superhuman dedication are reported with wide - eyed amazement (here's Marissa Mayer on her 130 - hour weeks at a young Google).

I want to grab her by the shoulders and ask the same question a wide - eyed President Obama did when he was introduced to her at a White House event: «When do you sleep?»

At the back of the Olympia, Layton's young Quebec organizers spoke, wide - eyed, of a dozen or so new Quebec seats being within reach.

And with her high - pitched voice, wide - eyed awe at being named to the seat, and Blue Dog record — she gave a shout - out to gun owners at the introductory news conference — Gillibrand looked unlikely to survive the Democratic primary a year and a half away.

With an incredibly versatile and entrepreneurial career at his back, Dean came to Selina wide - eyed and amazed at the what he, and many others believed was an untapped space.

Wide because we look around us at all that we aren't doing and see people who seem great in our eyes — people who carry great influence, great ideas, great power.

What it does is give God the excuse to impose himself upon humans, which you would recognize as also being unfair if you were looking at this with eyes wide open.

I feel the light scratches and pushes but when my eyes blearily open and I look right at her, she breaks into the wide open smile of a happy baby, all baby gums and delight and squeals.

I remember looking out as I preached seeing all the mothers and fathers staring at me with that «deer in the headlights» look, eyes wide open, mouth agape.

I imagine Jesus being wide - eyed at what he was hearing.

Saul got up from the ground, but even with his eyes wide open he could see nothing at all and they had to lead him into Damascus by the hand.

It's peaceful and right to be here at the feet of Jesus, my head tipped back, ears finally hearing, eyes finally seeing, my hands wound tight on to the corner of a dusty robe, my heart wide, flesh again.

Their eyes were wide open, uncomprehending opal pools, and they seemed worried at their confinement.»

She looked at the teacher with her eyes and mouth wide open until she realized nobody else heard it.

The fun of college life will be lost on you if you do nothing but wander aimlessly, wide - eyed at all the decisions your parents suddenly can't make for you.

The image of the cute child was the image of a wide - eyed youngster delighted at the newest toy (a toy possibly made by a child from a lower rung of the economic ladder, not yet privileged enough to enter the world of the «cute»).

I have had this experience three times now, on three different occasions, in admittedly similar circumstances, but not similar enough to explain the coincidence: I am speaking from a podium to a fairly large audience on the topics of — to put it broadly — evil, suffering, and God; I have been talking for several minutes about Ivan Karamazov, and about things I have written on Dostoevsky, to what seems general approbation; then, for some reason or other, I happen to remark that, considered purely as an artist, Dostoevsky is immeasurably inferior to Tolstoy; at this, a single pained gasp of incredulity breaks out somewhat to the right of the podium, and I turn my head to see a woman with long brown hair, somewhere in her middle thirties, seated in the third or fourth row, shaking her head in wide - eyed astonishment at my loutish stupidity.

«You might have known that he wouldn't give up easily,» Swett points out, «by one glance at his sturdy little figure, at his bright, wide - open eyes, his firm mouth, and his square, prominent chin; even the little, turned - up end of his nose looked resolute.»

Staying at a hotel in Jerusalem, we were 120 wide - eyed pilgrims, keen to not only see the biblical sites but to also wrestle with the complex issues that...

Although I never met Brittanie Cecil, and I've never been to Columbus, Ohio, I can not begin to express the grief that wells up inside my heart whenever I see the school photograph of the little teenager, on the cusp of adolescence, her blonde hair pulled back into a ribbon, and her blue eyes sparkling at the prospect of all those summer pool parties, those early - fall hayrides, her prom, her high school graduation with the cap and gown sailing high into a sky as wide and full as her hopes and dreams.

«When one looks at the world with their eyes WIDE OPEN, they are MOST BLIND» - Socrates and Jesus actually has a similar quote in the bible.

by that thought we should hate the governments and business world wide almost everyone turned a blind eye to the Nazis including at the time The USA, England, France, Canada, No scientific foundations are know to ahve spoken against them at the time.

The final word on them comes from my mother, who looked at me, wide - eyed, over the brunch table, and said, solemnly, «This is the best thing I ever put in my mouth.»

Everyone would look at me and, wide - eyed, say that my food was a color that should not be seen on the beach.

I had dinner with a friend last night who I cooked with at Chez Panisse, and when I told her about this dish — spicy corn, peanuts, chiles, butter, finished with a hit of lime, sesame, and cilantro, her eyes got wider and wider as I described it.

Back then, we looked at cornflakes, Snickers, McDonalds and chewing gum with wide and hungry eyes, taking in their then exotic flavors with all kinds of enthusiasm.

I used to prance through the aisles of Fowler's Gourmet in Durham, North Carolina, clapping my hands wide - eyed at such juicy titles as Pyromania Hot Sauce, Pain 100 %, and 99 % Meltdown Habanero Paste.

If you were here, you'd look at me with wide, confounded eyes that demand an explanation.

If the short ribs I posted earlier this week elicit romance, opulence, and proper decorum, then ají de gallina resides on the opposite spectrum for when I eat this, I want nothing more than to cozy up in my favorite, most slouchiest pajama bottoms and go at this with a ravenous, no - holds - bar hunger that I'm certain is terribly unattractive, disheveled and wide - eyed as I appear.

Our passion at Burj Al Arab is to offer you the chance to live your holiday dreams with eyes wide open.

I distinctly remember stumbling wide - eyed upon their page almost three years ago back when I was a freshman at University of Florida, exploring the newfangled world of food blogs.

James Lyddy, sleepy - eyed Bridgeport, Conn. seventh grader, was wide awake while leading his team to 49 - 46 win over Puerto Rico for Biddy Basketball championship at Scranton, Pa., earned title of Mr. Biddy Basketball.

The proposal that caught the eye at the time was the wildly controversial and poorly received idea to introduce Premier League B teams into the wider footballing pyramid, in the hope of smoothing the progression from academies into the first - team.

But I can still understand why he has used Mesut Ozil in wide areas at times, with the German's speed and technical ability able to cause problems on the flanks and his eye for a pass able to create chances.

«When they called my name on the 1st tee, I was hiding behind the starter's tent taking some deep breaths,» says Atwater, his eyes wide and bright as he sits in the visitors» center at Taft.

The Oklahoma wide receiver can't stifle a laugh at the memory of all those bugged eyes and strained necks.

Do you get the impression that the management / scouting teams of others are on the ball, eyes and ears wide open while Arsenal trundle along at the speed of an asthmatic snail?

Brenda — who's 5» 10, with wide cheekbones, dark hair, and unfocused bright blue eyes — stood at the kitchen window while we shot at jugs of water hanging from a fence.

Sandra Walle remembers walking wide - eyed into the array of possible clubs and organizations at high school freshman orientation.

Sandra Walle remembers walking wide - eyed into the array of possible clubs and organizations at high school freshman...

I have said Ox had a better chance to play his desired position at arsenal than any team in the top six, his skill set fits a wide player, his notion of being like his idol Steven Gerard is rather non-sensical and leaving the pampered world of arsenal, shall only widen his eyes to the reality of cut - throat real world.

The champions brushed aside a wide - eyed Villa team at the Etihad to put a one - point gap between themselves and Manchester United at the top of the table.

Their eyes wide, staring up at me... wondering what is wrong with mommy.

Now she is wide awake, eyes open and smiling at me.

As I watched Sweetness tossing small rocks at a piece of driftwood next to her to hear the funky hollow thunk sound and Mr. Man play with sticks in wide - eyed amazement, I started to think of all I'd learned about positive discipline and what this mom could do differently.