He immediately turns a friendly eye on Mia, too.
"My professor said that your type used to be looked at with a less friendly eye.
"There is a friendly eye in the sky," a Home Office minister proclaimed in 1994.
Then he thanked them for listening to him and for casting a friendly eye on his celluloid children.
That I might see with a sympathetic or friendly eye as well as an anthropological one did not at first occur to her.
The influence of the Norwegian owner is plain to see, and the local colour is provided by Nikos who manages the properties with a friendly eye.
Mind staff keep a friendly eye on each other, making sure people are taking lunch breaks and getting away from their desk.
They were hailed as the people's technology, a friendly eye in the sky, not Big Brother at all but a kindly and watchful uncle or aunt.
(When Mr. Cobbett arrived on Long Island in 1817, lacking a tended garden, he noticed the wild dandelions growing underfoot. "I have always, since that time, looked at this weed with a more friendly eye," he wrote).
Although the Harry Palmer movie had only made a respectable financial return, the D H Lawrence movie went through the roof, so understandably they were going to look with a friendly eye on any other movie I might propose.
After stepping onto the worn wooden platform of David Gallo's evocative set, Mr. Hudson hangs up coat and hat, turns a friendly eye on the audience, and then zeros in on the hard fact of slavery and its centrality to American history.
