With the 2010 election less than three months away, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' finger-in-the-eye remarks about the "professional left" could hardly have come at a worse time.
During a visit to China by the Queen and Philip Philip, Harry famously broke the story about Philip's controversial "slitty eyes" remark.
"One needs to cast a very sceptical eye on remarks of that kind.
With a gleam in his eye, Max remarks that though the scepter is priceless, it will nonetheless net him and his partners $30 million.
Its eye, Thomson remarks with a shudder, is "impatient for terrible action" – Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, Niki Lauda's car exploding into flames, the Columbia space shuttle disintegrating as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere.
Moyer rolls her eyes and remarks to the female bartender, "Any relationship with Dennis is in a state of constant rebuilding".
Also, it's wholly naive for middle-class people to believe the working class don't make the eye-rolling remarks about "big televisions" and "wonky priorities" among the poor, as they absolutely do.
When a young Indian man in the Copa Room identified himself as a database analyst, Rickles gave a mournful little roll of his eyes and remarked, more in sorrow than in anger, "You people come out of the jungle and take all our good jobs".
Perhaps the most eye-catching remark by Sir Robert Francis this morning is that two years, almost to the day, since his final report on the Mid Staffordshire scandal there is still a "serious problem in the NHS" relating to whistleblowers.
Rolling my eyes, I remarked offhandedly, "I'll just grab some scissors and cut it off".
"Except for these crow's-feet around my eyes," I remarked.
