Wide-eyed in a sentence as an adjective

Maybe if I was walking down these streets 15 years ago, I would have been pretty wide-eyed.

But the OP approaches this issue with incredible wide-eyed naivete, with no real knowledge of what's happened in the past.

I'll never forget the wide-eyed enthusiasm of an 18-year old I met in the days afterwards, who was preparing his life to sign up and go to war.

Of course we can all see how unfair it seems to have all this money promised by seemingly wide-eyed and clear-minded open source software supporters.

[1] I did marry her in the end and that sweet suffering has become part of our collective mythology, now imparted to our own wide-eyed children.

Especially given the authors wide-eyed realization that all that code executes in parallel, all the time.

It is a meaningless statement that every wide-eyed naive entrant to any business originally thinks.

But it's also filled with wide-eyed, passionate kids who were so busy fighting each other and comparing e-penises that they didn't even notice when the old hands commoditized them.

"This is how you squander your capital" Actually you squander your capital by resulting to pointless name-calling and dismissing the arguments of someone who actually has an interesting perspective to offer beyond the slavish, wide-eyed, youth-obsessed tech press.

Is it possible that the people who talk with wide-eyed wonder about programming after doing it for ten years and the passion that they have for writing software haven't come to appreciate the banality of almost every problem that they're going to be asked to solve in the software space?

If you read the Federalist Papers, it quickly becomes clear that the founders were not so much wide-eyed idealists as many Constitution-thumpers would have it, but a fairly cynical bunch who were as worried about the inability of people to rule themselves as they were about being ruled poorly from afar.

Wide-eyed definitions

adjective

exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed wonder"

See also: childlike round-eyed dewy-eyed simple

adjective

(used of eyes) fully open or extended; "stared with wide eyes"

See also: wide