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How to use dewy-eyed in a sentence

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But in my dewy-eyed youth, I wanted the Princess to go away with her lover.
There isn't much dewy-eyed sentimentality about nature in the Powder River Basin.
Yet, for many immigrants who came to America some two decades ago, often as dewy-eyed idealistic students, this is beginning to happen.
There is no dewy-eyed romanticism, no sentimentality though plenty of sentiment.
It's very cleverly done, but with an undefinable innocence that suggests the dewy-eyed thrill of very early pop, beaches and bikinis.
My brother and I emerged from the movie dewy-eyed with tears of relief, as we once again realized how close the world had come to Armageddon.
However, the question of costs is less susceptible to dewy-eyed sentiment than the power of the reading experience.
The special relationship is in any case more to do with dewy-eyed nostalgia for the days of the cold war than the realpolitik of 21st century Europe.
The dewy-eyed do-gooders might be pleased to know that whoever wins government at the next election our detention centres will still be here.
The Visitors' Book was full of the names of other dewy-eyed medicos from all over the world on a similar pilgrimage.
Let's not give the impression that we are entering into this with dewy-eyed naivety.
All night, the artfully sprawling rock lulls the lovers and the fighters into a state of dewy-eyed contentedness.
But some of us remember political discourse with dewy-eyed nostalgia.
The Pre-Raphaelites venerated her as a dewy-eyed damsel.
At one moment he gave himself up completely to his pride at having captured this pretty, trustful, dewy-eyed thing!
As portrayed with slightly nutsy, dewy-eyed enthusiasm by Annette O'Toole, Dottie is someone you know you'll never meet.
Orwell was indeed unsociable, anti-feminist and homophobic, but only ambiguously anti-Semitic, and by no means such a dewy-eyed idealiser of the plebs as some have imagined.
Streisand herself wasn't always so dewy-eyed.
But it's anything but a dewy-eyed love story.
Wherever I end up, there's sure to be some dewy-eyed copyeditor who will be happy to keep me company?
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Examples from Classical Literature
We are just home from the wedding and I wish you could see Lupe's dewy-eyed joy.
Lost from sight, both so snow-white were,And the lambkin adored the maiden wee, dewy-eyed with shimmering hair.
Just then the bedroom door opened, and out walked David, dewy-eyed, and with very pink cheeks.
I'm remembering what a dewy-eyed little dove of a thing she is.
Nadine kissed her mother, and clung round her neck, dewy-eyed.
Rather like Larry Clark's depraved teenagers, however less blowzy or dewy-eyed, Prince's biker babes fancy themselves as outlaws on some escapist kick.
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