One she saw clearly—a dewy-eyed, lovely woman who murmured loving, broken words.
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Dewy-eyed
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Bill Clinton has never shied away from displays of dewy-eyed, lip-biting sentimentality.
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What does his wife, music teacher Caroline, think about his retiring to a quiet life in Wantage? "I think she's a bit dewy-eyed. She thinks it's going to be nice to spend more time with me. I have to take time to decompress from a job like this for so long, but coming from that to doing nothing would be very unhealthy."
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At one moment he gave himself up completely to his pride at having captured this pretty, trustful, dewy-eyed thing!
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