moonily

And he would open up the trombone case every night and take out the picture of this girlfriend, Meredith Auld, and I'd have to stare at the picture with him and he'd kind of look at it moonily and then midway through the summer she wrote him a ` Dear John. '

The Greatest Generation 1999

And I'd have to stare at the picture with him and he'd kinda look at it moonily.

Booknotes 10th Anniversary 1999

So I sneak into the gallery almost daily, on my way to the London Library, and stare moonily at her (her, because paintings, like ships, are usually female in my mind).

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

For others, it is activated by a pleasant social experience such as gazing moonily at women.

Postbulletin.com Local News 2010

Those indifferent to Efron (or those who loathe him) will hate this movie, while those who love him will enjoy it the same way they enjoy gazing moonily at an Abercrombie & Fitch ad.

unknown title 2009

I would add to that list of regrets the regret that they never got to do much of anything except stare at each other moonily, despite ample opportunity to steam up the windows of the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

Emily Magazine 2008

Why bother writing dialogue conveying characters’ growing attraction when you can use a few soft-focus shots of leads gazing moonily into each other’s eyes as glib shorthand for the complicated dance of courtship and consummation?

My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

Mr.O. emerges somewhat more sympathetically: worrying that his own kids don’t recognize him; impressing the impressionable Suzy with his wardrobe and unflappable mien (“his very being demands respect,” she “journals” a bit moonily, “maybe it’s because he’s always so impeccably dressed”); procuring her and a friend dinner reservations at Spago; and even occasionally taking her child-rearing wisdom seriously — to the intense displeasure of his wife, of course.

Tinseltown Au Pair Tells All: Shock and Horror in Hollywood 2006

Mr.O. emerges somewhat more sympathetically: worrying that his own kids don’t recognize him; impressing the impressionable Suzy with his wardrobe and unflappable mien (“his very being demands respect,” she “journals” a bit moonily, “maybe it’s because he’s always so impeccably dressed”); procuring her and a friend dinner reservations at Spago; and even occasionally taking her child-rearing wisdom seriously — to the intense displeasure of his wife, of course.

Tinseltown Au Pair Tells All: Shock and Horror in Hollywood 2006