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starry-eyed, a.
[f. starry a. + eyed ppl. a.]
a. Of persons: idealistic, uplifted, romantic: ingenuous, naïve.
1936M. Mitchell Gone with Wind xxix. 489 She had never stood starry-eyed when the Stars and Bars ran up a pole. 1945Nelson & Wright Tomorrow's House xviii. 206/2 Starry-eyed prospective home builders. 1955M. Dickens Winds of Heaven v. 130 Holding hands and being starry-eyed over bottles of Chianti in romantic little cafés. 1958Spectator 10 Jan. 37/3 He can hardly be so starry-eyed as to suppose that a similar enterprise on a national scale would be blessed by the whole hierarchy. 1964S. Brittan Treasury under Tories ii. vii. 208 He understood both businessmen and bureaucrats too well to be starry-eyed about either. 1979Dædalus Summer 107 A starry-eyed bachelor woos the kitchen maid.
b. transf. and fig.
[1928‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country x. 163 She expressed starry-eyed sympathy with his loss, having a struggle to keep back the tears.] 1947A. L. Rowse End of Epoch i. 14 The starry-eyed vacuity of the unteachable and the uneducable. 1958Listener 25 Sept. 476/2 All too often United States policy-makers..tend to hover between a starry-eyed idealism and a dangerous brinkmanship. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Aug. 891/4 Mr Grunberger's account is balanced, but..his conclusion is starry-eyed. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 345/2 It is just not possible to accomplish anything like so starry-eyed a concept. |