gimlet-eyed

• “But for all her gimlet-eyed calculation, Perry packs more wit and charisma into her eyelash extensions than most pop stars manage in a career.”

  The Guardian: Justin Bieber; Katy Perry – review

• “The gimlet-eyed joke is that Madeleine has become enamored of a book that is designed to undermine that feeling.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Sense & Semiotics

• “They are very conservative, and as we all know, they have a gimlet-eyed view of government.”

  The Huffington Post: Will Marshall: The Tea Party Is the GOP's Problem

• “As two very different ingénues battle it out for the lead, a brassy veteran chorine (Megan Hilty, a true Broadway veteran) and a newbie from Iowa with heart (American Idol's Katharine McPhee), Smash at times evokes Bob Fosse's classic All That Jazz in its gimlet-eyed, gamy yet irrepressibly fabulous and tuneful valentine to the business of show biz.”

  Monday TV in Review: Smash's Opening Night, Plus House, Castle, and More

• “But his integrity, to say nothing of his sanity, is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberant multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, and business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own.”

  In the Kitchen: Summary and book reviews of In the Kitchen by Monica Ali.

• “On this basis alone, men fear a woman tottering towards them at the beginning of an evening, already gimlet-eyed with toe pain, and sitting down to eat with old-lady sigh.”

  The Guardian: The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran

• “This gimlet-eyed memoir is Joan Didion's meticulous chronicle of the harrowing year following the death of her husband of 40 years, the writer John Gregory Dunne, who died of a heart attack at their dinner table.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Deathless Accounts Of Mourning

• “His Hoover is more to be censured than pitied, an obsessive-compulsive creep with the vocal rhythms of a ball-peen hammer and a gimlet-eyed gift for blackmail.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'J. Edgar': Hoover's Life, in a Dramatic Vacuum

• “It isn't about numbers, be they player stats or the staggering sums spent by top-tier franchises, even though the story seems at first to be asking us to root for the gimlet-eyed statistician, rather than the sharp-eyed pitcher or batter; for data, rather than intuition; for the cool satisfactions of science, rather than the fevered romance of sport.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Moneyball': Stars, Stats and Perfect Pitch

• “Painter Alice Neel "remained unflinching, gimlet-eyed" in old age, and before she died "she trained her gaze - in one of her last portraits - on her own old naked body.”

  The Washington Post: Nicholas Delbanco's "Lastingness: the Art of Old Age"

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