"inquisitive eye" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is curious or interested in something, often with a slight sense of suspicion or skepticism. Example: "As the detective entered the crime scene, she surveyed the room with her inquisitive eye, searching for any clues that could lead to solving the mystery."
He was admired for his keen and inquisitive eye, his extensive knowledge and his trenchant opinions.
But for the patient and inquisitive eye, there's a gold mine of information here.
Perhaps some of the young scholars with an inquisitive eye will find their way to the Armory Show.
"This lack of conscious self-attraction very often has the effect of making the subject even more attractive to the inquisitive eye, especially when combined with an enigmatic aloofness sometimes mistaken for arrogance," he adds.
Once the issue of freedom had been successfully raised, all kinds of people, black and nonblack, began to cast an inquisitive eye on laws and customs that had nothing to do with racism or Jim Crow, and began to identify other sorts of oppressions.
Not too many people saw "Ricki and the Flash" (2015), Demme's final feature, despite the zest of Meryl Streep as the middle-aged rocker of the title, yet the movie is worth revisiting, in the wake of Demme's passing, because it proves that his inquisitive eye had lost little of its gleam.
The tunes are about more than just hook-ups out of the sight of inquisitive eyes.
Standing near the foot of his cluttered desk is a life-size replica of E.T., with big, blue inquisitive eyes.
But most lie unknown except to parish records and the inquisitive eyes of modern demographers or epidemiologists.
The bunny's cheeks are colored with a thumbprint of blush, her inquisitive eyes rimmed in the palest pink.
Samaia, one year older, has inquisitive eyes, and looks like she ought to be doing her homework.
