Sentence examples for eyes alive from inspiring English sources
Gillis is small and genial, his eyes alive with humor.
They did terrible things to me," says Jane, her eyes alive with pain.
Nevertheless, he examined the model for hours, his eyes alive with interest.
"We really moved society," said Mr. Boskovic, his eyes alive with an infectious energy.
Mads Mikkelsen finds himself installed like a figurehead at the prow of Arnaud des Pallières's surging historical romp, gazing resolutely towards the far horizon, his eyes alive with both sadness and strength.
That's not necessarily the case these days, but because no one ever seems to leave Private Eye alive there is still a remarkable institutional memory at Lord Gnome's HQ.
He keeps your eye alive, and moving, by giving everything its strong particularity in the general scene, awarding nothing undue drama or weight: the scudding waves, the red coat, the flash of light catching a weathervane, the hat of a man clambering down into a boat.
Over to You, by Roald Dahl, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Cillian Murphy, Juliet Stevenson, Sophie Okonedo (6hrs unabridged, Penguin, £13.99) Remember Dahl's gruesome short story, "William and Mary", about the vengeful widow who is keeping her dead husband's brain and one eye alive in a petri dish so that she can torture him every day with her chain-smoking and expensive new clothes?
The hook continues this metaphor: "So shine bright, tonight, you and I / We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky / Eye to eye, so alive".
They were confident, poised and their eyes were alive.
