Wide-eyed

"Do you never imagine things different from what they really are?" asked Anne wide-eyed. "No."

Tom's wide-eyed optimism is beginning to grate on my nerves.

His wide-eyed idealism is really starting to get on my nerves.

In Sandton Square, a shopping space dominated by a huge statue of Nelson Mandela, an oinking, tail-wagging pig and a wide-eyed plastic soldier beating a drum compete for children’s attention as they race into a toy store in Johannesburg.

Dmitri looked at Anna wide-eyed.

The magician’s trick left the audience wide-eyed.

Country life doesn’t protect you from real life. A rural childhood may leave you wide-eyed a bit longer about some things, but it doesn’t confer the insulating innocence that some parents seem to hope.

She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.

2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/ Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.