| Physically, she brilliantly embodied the shrewd, sharp-eyed, owlish spinster, while also conveying her intuitive acumen and razor-sharp mind. |
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| Close's self-portrait underlines this paradox, his owlish glasses reiterating that artist and audience are creatures who long to see clearly. |
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| Yet his rather owlish manner gives way to frightening intensity when he talks of threats to his firm's intellectual property. |
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| The owlish soldier takes off his helmet, holds out his hand. |
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| In his haste to flee, he had dropped his owlish horn rims, his wallet, and false teeth. |
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| Here we see the well-known face, a bearded mask housing a pair of glowing, owlish eyes, the hair and forehead flecked with blood. |
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| From 1955 to 1963, he was Chairman of the National Bank, an Irish clearing bank, again confounding those who took his owlish, academic demeanour at face value. |
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| One, with pipe in mouth and owlish mien, was the shade of Sir Edwin Lutyens, who after 1910 laid out the gardens in what had been a cattle yard. |
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| It's just the kind of word the slightly owlish, bespectacled Mr Brooks should love. I wasn't alone in noticing the slip. |
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| For all the superficial differences, the bearded academic has much in common with the owlish Washington insider he will probably succeed. |
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| He glanced across her at the jawless, pie-faced woman soon to be her mother-in-law, whose owlish eyes were fixed askance upon their hands. |
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| Not Harry Potter, but Alan Greenspan, the owlish chairman of America's Federal Reserve, whom many on Wall Street believe to be an even more powerful wizard. |
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| He feebly wanted to get out of this, away from clucking nurses and Dr. Crittenham's owlish peering and the horrible scrambled eggs and cold toast. |
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| Impromptu, selfreflexive, and distinctly owlish, the microscript is quite different from the two feuilletons that W. extracted from it for the periodical Sport im Bild. |
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