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  • It's also a place where state parks can be more spectacular than many a national park in the lower 48; where a visitor determined to see a grizzly bear in the wild will not go away empty-eyed; where the Northern Lights make frequent and sumptuous appearances; where light-starved winter days and elongated summer nights can mess with your mind.

    Fighting fiercely to keep Alaska wild Post 2011

  • An endless gray stream of empty-eyed, frostbitten men trickled to the looming ships.

    The Long Walk Home Thomas Pluck 2011

  • Pope's empty-eyed way of dealing with others leaves us wondering if he is crazy -- Smurf encourages him to resume his medication -- or simply the most calculating of monsters.

    Stanton Peele: War of the Beasts in the Animal Kingdom Stanton Peele 2011

  • I miss that big galoot and his empty-eyed sociopathic sidekick Franky.

    Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs: What Looks Good for May | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • The emotion-clogged 'human interest' story in which we see a couple in their advanced age who could be our greatgrandparents, or who could be our grandparents, or who could be our parents, (but we never see ourselves or 'our' own), facing the camera sobbing if they are cognizant mentally, else otherwise looking blank-faced, hollow, empty-eyed and pitieous, in the aftermath of having 'lost' their life's entire 'savings.' and purpose.

    Straight from the top (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • It's also a place where state parks can be more spectacular than many a national park in the lower 48; where a visitor determined to see a grizzly bear in the wild will not go away empty-eyed; where the Northern Lights make frequent and sumptuous appearances; where light-starved winter days and elongated summer nights can mess with your mind.

    Fighting fiercely to keep Alaska wild Post 2011

  • Mark Sanford spoke to Barbara Walters on ABC's 20/20 about her new book, Staying True, in which she tenderly describes her husband as a frugal, empty-eyed politician who, when she was pregnant, thoughtfully declared he wouldn't join her in Lamaze class because it was a waste of time.

    Meredith C. Carroll: Soon-To-Be Classic Tales of Love 2010

  • You call these empty-eyed dull-faced plastic figurines a ‘quality cast’?

    Stargate SG-1 Axed, Spods Anguished 2010

  • The pendulum passed again, revealing in the circle of silver the white face of an empty-eyed figure, one which now stood behind Isobel.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • Mark Sanford spoke to Barbara Walters on ABC's 20/20 about her new book, Staying True, in which she tenderly describes her husband as a frugal, empty-eyed politician who, when she was pregnant, thoughtfully declared he wouldn't join her in Lamaze class because it was a waste of time.

    Soon-To-Be Classic Tales of Love 2010

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