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Wild-eyed

adjective

Appearing extremely agitated.

Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic. Synonyms: quixotic, romantic. "A romantic disregard for money" , "A wild-eyed dream of a world state"

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"Wild-eyed" Quotes from Famous Books

... enough to make life seem worth living in spite of every contrary presumption suggested by its circumstances on the natural plane. Destroy this inner assurance, however, vague as it is, and all the light and radiance of existence is extinguished for these persons at a stroke. Often enough the wild-eyed look at life—the suicidal mood—will then ...

— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James

... yanking him to his feet, a wild-eyed Peters mouthing strange exultant words. "They can't do it! No, never! Not if they were to try all night! We put 'em back again, Gilbert! We'll do it again! Come on, you blue-legged babies! Try it again! ...

— Left Guard Gilbert • Ralph Henry Barbour

... across the creaking floor to open his door a little farther, listening with strained ear, for his bright young imagination pictured the thin pale youth, wild-eyed and breathless, out of his hiding-place and running for liberty across the open moor, and hearing again the distant reports of ...

— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn

... was still at last. A wild-eyed thing that may once have been a man stared in horror at the fading light of the yellow ...

— Turnover Point • Alfred Coppel

... him, still wild-eyed and fearful, still trembling. She was holding her baby close to her breast. Her long heavy hair smothered her shoulders and arms in a dark lustrous veil that glistened and rippled in the firelight when she moved. Her young face was scarcely a woman's to-night, though she was ...

— Kazan • James Oliver Curwood

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