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  • adjective having keen eyesight

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Examples

  • After the interval it was disappointing to see City's attack lapse back into the passivity of their previous two fixtures, with Dzeko's attempts to retain possession in and around the Liverpool penalty area resembling those of a child on a Cornish beach trying to protect an ice-cream cornet against a keen-eyed seagull.

    Manchester City and Liverpool need a solution for striking flaws | Richard Williams 2012

  • LUDDEN: When one of their company members suggested adapting "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgeralds keen-eyed look at the American Dream and its flip side, they leapt at the opportunity.

    'Great Gatsby' Onstage, With A White-Collar Twist 2010

  • Then in 1992, MTV premiered The Real World, and in a happy accident, a show I created, MTV UNfiltered, which that may well have given keen-eyed observers a clue as to what YouTube would become.

    Steve Rosenbaum: YouTube And The Death Of User-Generated Content Steve Rosenbaum 2011

  • The second half of the novel flags significantly, though Ms. Beard has by that point engendered so much goodwill for her clever, keen-eyed narrator that readers will likely stick with her all the way.

    The Comic-Grotesque Goes North Sam Sacks 2011

  • Several keen-eyed posters arrived at the correct camo pattern.

    Geography Quiz Winner!? 2009

  • In recent days, such keen-eyed observers as Glenn Beck, Sharon Angle, and your morbidly obese Uncle Bob have declared that a sinister conspiracy of Communists and Islamic fundamentalists has subverted the Obama administration and the judicial system, and that we are about to witness the coming of Sharia law to every hill, dale--and, perhaps, even to every glen--in America.

    John Eskow: Commie Sharia Law IS Coming to America. So What Exactly is the Problem? John Eskow 2011

  • In recent days, such keen-eyed observers as Glenn Beck and your morbidly obese Uncle Bob have declared that a sinister conspiracy of Communists and Islamic fundamentalists has subverted the Obama administration and the judicial system

    John Eskow: Commie Sharia Law IS Coming to America. So What Exactly is the Problem? John Eskow 2011

  • In recent days, such keen-eyed observers as Glenn Beck, Sharon Angle, and your morbidly obese Uncle Bob have declared that a sinister conspiracy of Communists and Islamic fundamentalists has subverted the Obama administration and the judicial system, and that we are about to witness the coming of Sharia law to every hill, dale--and, perhaps, even to every glen--in America.

    John Eskow: Commie Sharia Law IS Coming to America. So What Exactly is the Problem? John Eskow 2011

  • In recent days, such keen-eyed observers as Glenn Beck and your morbidly obese Uncle Bob have declared that a sinister conspiracy of Communists and Islamic fundamentalists has subverted the Obama administration and the judicial system

    John Eskow: Commie Sharia Law IS Coming to America. So What Exactly is the Problem? John Eskow 2011

  • Inside, on the way to his dressing-room, he encountered the secretary, a keen-eyed, shrewd-faced young man, who shook his hand.

    A PIECE OF STEAK 2010

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