Adjective : dewy-eyed, aspiring young actresses.    From Dictionary.com. 

I was never particularly dewy-eyed about parenthood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Mitchell: Are You Happy? Are You Sure?] Reference

I know that right now I am the dewy-eyed new convert.    From Wordnik.com.  [The evolution of writing: Have we hidden the true meaning of Web 2?] Reference

A dewy-eyed Maria, remembering promises of undying love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dead One (El Muerto) (2007)] Reference

Yeah, I know, “dewy-eyed virgins” is a figure of speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duke Case: Were I On The Jury, I’d Vote “Not Guilty”] Reference

COHEN: I think we have to be clear-eyed and not dewy-eyed on this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2007] Reference

She stands in front of Byron dewy-eyed and drop-jawed and says, Oh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

As a dewy-eyed six-year old boy, I was a fervent Anderson supporter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The War] Reference

Another dewy-eyed and succulent assistant might feel quite differently.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPECIAL CONTEST ACTIVITY] Reference

Curiously, even douchebags like Godlstein have their dewy-eyed, adoring fans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

You are not dewy-eyed jingoists stuck in some 19th century need for rapacious nationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bradley Burston: My Generation Ruined Israel. Yours Could Save It.] Reference

When I was a dewy-eyed teen, I didn't want to be a rock singer, I wanted to be a folk singer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

The dewy-eyed backward glances of the New Athenians seem almost profound beside this malarky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetic Machines 04 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sam Harris: Jewcy's Big Question: Why Are Atheists So Angry?] Reference

I was very glad when I went on to be an editor and the next set of dewy-eyed interns took over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

Let's not be dewy-eyed about this — we don't expect nor should we want heroes on Wall Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are CEOs Paid Too Much?] Reference

There was, for once, no adoring wife, standing by her man, gazing dewy-eyed at the flawed hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex Americana] Reference

He is no dewy-eyed youth activist getting his first taste of village-level economic development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Lewis: Arizona is the New Kenya] Reference

In the final analysis, that's the difference between dewy-eyed fatalists and wide-eyed optimists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Fishman: Old Dogs, New Media: Why J-School Apps Are Up] Reference

Nary a pony or sparkly unicorn or dewy-eyed proclamation that All Is Now Officially Well in sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm for bed ...] Reference

What's weird is that it's become a holiday "classic" and people get all nostalgic and dewy-eyed about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another year!] Reference

Every time I hear that song, I feel an impossibly sunny day and I'm drunk with thoughts of dewy-eyed love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Moments That Change Your Life—The Remix] Reference

Happily, the book lacks condemnations, sanctimony, or dewy-eyed platitudes, which puts it in rare company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willingham: Can reformers control their own reforms?] Reference

He could just see her at fifteen, fresh-faced and dewy-eyed, falling for a handsome lad a few years older than she.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hellion in Her Bed] Reference

I've been around a while, and men have always gone on and on all dewy-eyed about how the women just love that Sean Connery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do You Like Wonder Woman?] Reference

She was gone, and it was a dewy-eyed and rapt mother, not a Lensman, who turned to the still completely disorganized Lyranian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Lens]

They Weren’t So Bad After All, or assert that the film evinces "dewy-eyed nostalgia" for the GDR, is beyond my comprehension.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/30.] Reference

I'm not dewy-eyed enough to believe that a network Sunday show can get Monday headlines by pinning Pinocchio badges on its guests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marty Kaplan: The Scary Staleness of Truth Telling] Reference

It's easy to look back dewy-eyed, and it would be easy to mock a bunch of very middle aged blokes jumping around a stage in Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

She kissed Elizabeth, who was also dewy-eyed, and hugged her father, who was pretending that the cold had set his eyes to watering.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Night for Love]

The uncertainty lasted only a moment, for, as Jeanette, shy, and dewy-eyed, held out her arms to her new-found friend, quite suddenly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucile Triumphant] Reference

Those of you who find him molasses-slow, opaque, and over-reliant on music and tracking shots and dewy-eyed narrators will say, "Yup.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference

I've been fielding emails from a dewy-eyed 25 year old who insists that age is just a number and I should meet him for pizza and a beer.    From Wordnik.com.  [blog: January 2008] Reference

Some were dewy-eyed, some were extremely liberal, but most of the people on the ground and in the houses were largely centrist in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Change We Can Perceive In] Reference

She was also quite dewy-eyed over how the media and the public would treat the secrets of her married life, which she knew had to come out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Then And Now] Reference