And I'd have to stare at the picture with him and he'd kinda look at it moonily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Booknotes 10th Anniversary] Reference

And he would open up the trombone case every night and take out the picture of this girlfriend, Meredith Auld, and I'd have to stare at the picture with him and he'd kind of look at it moonily and then midway through the summer she wrote him a ` Dear John. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Generation] Reference

For others, it is activated by a pleasant social experience such as gazing moonily at women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Postbulletin.com Local News]

So I sneak into the gallery almost daily, on my way to the London Library, and stare moonily at her (her, because paintings, like ships, are usually female in my mind).    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

I would add to that list of regrets the regret that they never got to do much of anything except stare at each other moonily, despite ample opportunity to steam up the windows of the Trans-Siberian Railroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emily Magazine] Reference

Mr.O. emerges somewhat more sympathetically: worrying that his own kids don’t recognize him; impressing the impressionable Suzy with his wardrobe and unflappable mien (“his very being demands respect,” she “journals” a bit moonily, “maybe it’s because he’s always so impeccably dressed”); procuring her and a friend dinner reservations at Spago; and even occasionally taking her child-rearing wisdom seriously — to the intense displeasure of his wife, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tinseltown Au Pair Tells All: Shock and Horror in Hollywood] Reference

Lest rhetoric moonily waft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference