1 expecting to be treated like a star (= a famous person): --
He said he considered himself to be down to earth and not a starry celebrity.
How they sat there looking up to him with their little faces glowing, rosy-cheeked and starry-eyed!
Of course, law reform is a subject on which it is very easy to be starry-eyed or unrealistic.
I would call it guess and gloss—a good deal of starry-eyed speculative optimism transparently glossing over the difficulties of the situation.
We are not talking about keeping one starry-eyed youngster away from another with whom he or she is in love.
Even the most starry-eyed optimist would feel some misgivings on that matter.
Let us be realistic and not too starry-eyed about this.
I do not believe that it is starry-eyed or idealistic to think of doubling the funding for the organisation during the coming year.
I am inclined to think that on the whole we have been too starry-eyed about the promises of all the parties.
