Sentence examples similar to wan eyes from inspiring English sources

Mr. Conn considered this for a moment, and for the first time I thought I saw in his wan blue eyes the radiant damage of grief.

Emerging from Turner's heliocentric cathedral, I felt I had cataracts: it takes time to re-accustom your dazzled eyes to the wan, monochrome mock-up we call reality.

Ms. Theron, meanwhile, starts to look wan and red around the eyes, not from the exhaustion of her absurd role but because Sara's illness is catching up with her.

"The nozzle cover we invented was inspired by the human eye," said Jae Wan Kwon, associate professor in the College of Engineering at MU, in a release, who developed the mechanism with grad student Riberet Almieda.

Second-generation prostamide antagonists, such as AGN211334, which has been shown to block bimatoprost activity in human eye perfusion model (Wan et al., 2007) and AGN211335, are approximately 100 times more potent than their prototype.

Nora's hair is fried, her eyes jaded, her mien wan.

She was thin-armed, bare-legged, her skin wan and blotchy from sleep, her eyes colorless in their glacial blue.

And she kept her composure after every three-putt, managing wan smiles even as her blue eyes bored holes into her putter.

"There's a girl I'm told who rolls her eyes at the Gok Wan acolytes/ Underneath her bed there lies a collection of ammonites".

(In fact, the French and Italian names for her are La Joconde and La Gioconda; whence came our English "Mona Lisa"?) The woman is plain, with a long nose, tired eyes shifting to the side and that annoyingly wan smile.

But once you wipe the tear from your eyes, all you're left with is a conventionally wan Walt displaying little more than a pleasant vision.