Sentence examples for unaccustomed eye from inspiring English sources

By Gilbert Seldes The New Yorker, March 29 , 1930 P. 24A Study in Fear and Tear: The Sixth and Ninth Avenue L trains which run over the same tracks above Fifty-third Street and to the unaccustomed eye are indistinguishable.

But it isn't difficult to imagine the impact the first sight of Brazil must have had back then on unaccustomed European eyes.

Hardened every day at school, a diamond in a coal mine, my brilliance blinding eyes unaccustomed to the light, destroying principals unwilling to cede power to their superior.

Paul Boateng writes: Ben Bousquet and his beloved wife Mary, striding across the bush around their home in the Overberg region of the western Cape, were a striking sight to eyes unaccustomed to multiracial couples in this part of the world.

I heard one Republican strategist resurrect a sanguinary phrase made famous by Senator John McCain in 2000, adapting it thus: "If they try to use the reconciliation trick to avoid debate on a trillion-dollar deal, there'll be 'blood all over the floor.' " ANOMALIES Another unfamiliar word that has found itself blinking unaccustomed in the public eye is anomalies.

It felt odd — my eyes ached, unaccustomed to the natural bright light.

THE CUTE-OFF: Spectators unaccustomed to high levels of cute are advised to shield their eyes and try not to squee during this hotly contested event, the ultimate cutie contest.

He seemed unaccustomed to speech.