0 If you are starry-eyed, you have a lot of thoughts and opinions that are unreasonably positive, so you do not understand things as they really are: --
Of course, law reform is a subject on which it is very easy to be starry-eyed or unrealistic.
Let us be realistic and not too starry-eyed about this.
I want to introduce a note of scepticism, an element of doubt, into what has been at times a rather starry-eyed debate.
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.
I would call it guess and gloss—a good deal of starry-eyed speculative optimism transparently glossing over the difficulties of the situation.
Even the most starry-eyed optimist would feel some misgivings on that matter.
How they sat there looking up to him with their little faces glowing, rosy-cheeked and starry-eyed!
