starry-eyed

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As young students in the 1970s and 1980s, we often went to listen, starry-eyed, to this soft-spoken theorist expound on what we thought were complex issues of our times and come back mesmerized.

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  1. adjective Having a naively enthusiastic, overoptimistic, or romantic view; unrealistic: a starry-eyed reformer; starry-eyed idealism.

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  • Blogging at Social Honeycomb, Amanda Gravel -- a self-confessed Millennial -- wonders how the current economic situation will affect her starry-eyed demographic. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0
  • With friends like KTW, Jeffrey, and Polly Holliday, I was starry-eyed and thought my teacher was just —  Deep Fried Kudzu
  • First inaugurations are like weddings: starry-eyed celebrations of new beginnings.
  • Yet more condescending, starry-eyed tosh from the New York Times regarding Ireland ... —  FP Passport
  • Cats grow wings, fire hydrants do backflips, cars stand up on their back wheels and Crip-walk, and dour Magnetic Fields jams become eight-minute celestial starry-eyed workouts without losing any of their swoony melody. —  Pitchfork: Latest News
 

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