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  • In their level-eyed bigotry, their ironclad insensitivity, their untouchable, corrupting, bureaucracy-based immunity, they have taught us finally to pay no attention to that man behind the curtain of Oral Law.

    Bradley Burston: If You're Jewish, That's Enough for Me. If Not, Let's Talk Real Estate Bradley Burston 2010

  • Van Huffel, who founded Retina in 1995, is too level-eyed an operator to offer anything like closure; instead, and much more recognisably, he leaves us with a fragile truce.

    Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Retina dance company, Collisions, Juliet Aster 2010

  • In their level-eyed bigotry, their ironclad insensitivity, their untouchable, corrupting, bureaucracy-based immunity, they have taught us finally to pay no attention to that man behind the curtain of Oral Law.

    Bradley Burston: If You're Jewish, That's Enough for Me. If Not, Let's Talk Real Estate Bradley Burston 2010

  • In their level-eyed bigotry, their ironclad insensitivity, their untouchable, corrupting, bureaucracy-based immunity, they have taught us finally to pay no attention to that man behind the curtain of Oral Law.

    Bradley Burston: If You're Jewish, That's Enough for Me. If Not, Let's Talk Real Estate Bradley Burston 2010

  • The owner, now at the wheel, was the essence of decent self-satisfaction; a baldish, largish, level-eyed man, rugged of neck but sleek and round of face — face like the back of a spoon bowl.

    Main Street 2004

  • Danielson was 6 feet tall and husky, with a clear, level-eyed gaze.

    Danielson, Mark G. 1990

  • There was only that level-eyed calmness that seemed to attach little importance to what had passed.

    Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

  • There was only that level-eyed calmness that seemed to attach little importance to what had passed.

    Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

  • The familiar Tolkien division prevails between level-eyed, steely-but-gentle good guys, and snarling, black-minded bad guys; but the action remains exterior and mechanical.

    The Hobbit Habit Adams, Robert M. 1977

  • Automatically, one thinks of the general run of earnest, handsome, firm-jawed, level-eyed, smooth-voiced gentlemen one sees on one's TV screen.

    By Proxy Randall Garrett 1957

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