| 单词 | beady-eyed |
| 例句 | I can feel them watching me, beady-eyed, calculating. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z If anyone looked out of their window now, even beady-eyed Mrs. Dursley, they wouldn’t be able to see anything that was happening down on the pavement. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s an entire elephant,” jested a beady-eyed, one-armed man in tattered pants and without a shirt, referring to our package. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z "When we realised it was Neil on the other end we started keeping count of the calls as a bit of a joke," says this beady-eyed onlooker. Did the News of the World target Amanda Holden before giving her a job? 2011-07-07T17:30:03Z He couldn’t be a lawyer, he writes, because in men’s suits he looked like an ogre: “short, bald, big-nosed, beady-eyed, bowlegged.” Books of The Times: Why Be a Tree Stump When You Can Soar? 2011-05-18T00:52:01Z He is persuasive and vivid about the art itself, as when he describes Freud’s “beady-eyed focus on humid, blotched skin and sagging flesh,” in paintings that were “raw and rash-ridden.” ‘The Art of Rivalry’ Dissects Four Jostling Pairs of Artists 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z My daily dread — waiting to see which father would come through the front door: the man who taught me to ride a bike or the surly drunk — found a beady-eyed outlet. I’m terrified of the cicada onslaught 2013-05-20T23:45:00Z He praised the band — “a true living cultural organism” that fights against injustice — for its mid-’90s fight against “those beady-eyed bloodthirsty weasels at Ticketmaster.” 8 Memorable Moments From the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z He was, variously, a cuddly Teddy Roosevelt, a beady-eyed Rasputin and some exultant pagan god, with his tan tunic and blood daubed on each cheek. Season's readings: The Night Before Christmas by Clement C Moore 2010-12-13T15:23:00Z It remains to be seen what Cannes will make of Wheatley with his beady-eyed take on an English tourist trail riddled with ley-lines, campsites and a "shaman from Portsmouth". Ben Wheatley's Sightseers brings English tourist trail to Cannes 2012-05-17T19:00:03Z Gray would retort that he does not gainsay progress in technology, but technology is progressed by technologists who, beady-eyed though they may be, are, after all, human. The Silence of Animals by John Gray – review 2013-02-15T10:20:01Z Well, even this beady-eyed gift seems to be deserting him now. The Smell of Us review: Larry Clark's passionless voyeur flick 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Whatever you mind conjures that this person is going to be, some beady-eyed monster with a low criminal forehead, is likely to not be true. Lt. Joe Kenda of "Homicide Hunter": "I never pulled the trigger because I never had to 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z It's unfortunate that won't include Academy voters who might otherwise have been able to spare the film some of their beady-eyed consideration in time for the Oscars. Cannes 2013: 10 things we learned at this year's festival 2013-05-23T18:07:49Z In a moment of weakness, those beady-eyed demons caught up with her. Review: In ‘Janis: Little Girl Blue,’ Exploring Joplin’s Demons 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Simon, a go-getter on the fast track to a promotion at his new job, is an attentive husband, but a little too brusque and beady-eyed for comfort. Review: ‘The Gift,’ a Stalker Thriller That Isn’t What It Seems 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Take those cute fluffballs, fast forward six months, and you have ruthless, beady-eyed little dinosaurs. Perspective | 7 tips for raising backyard chickens, from picking a breed to having an exit strategy 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z I like to think we were a rather beady-eyed panel, all of us practitioners in the crafts of writing, editing and publishing, and wise to the ways of marketing buzz and overpromoted young novelists. Then and now: Granta's best young British novelists 2013-04-06T07:00:20Z Her hugely lucrative comedies, such as Father of the Bride and What Women Want, also maintain a deceptively easy-going focus on beady-eyed human stories. Nancy Meyers: ‘I don’t see a lot of movies about complicated women … I think it’s gotten worse’ 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z I looked up, and hovering 20 feet from my window was a black drone with a beady-eyed camera pointed at me. When Your Neighbor’s Drone Pays an Unwelcome Visit 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Wiry, beady-eyed and not without flashes of humor, we see him delivering a fiery speech in footage from his days in Congress. Review: Anthony D. Weiner’s Self-Destruction Is a Documentary’s Focus 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z This was no bear, however, but the beady-eyed state bird of Alaska, the ptarmigan. Explorer: Where Alaskan Adventurers Lay Their Heads 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z Meek is a former reporter, who has written a lot of beady-eyed, elegant journalism from war zones and other disturbing places, at home and abroad. The Heart Broke In by James Meek - review 2012-08-24T07:00:01Z And always the beady-eyed Lenin statue flailing a hand in silent oratory, a broken ideology embalmed in stone. Explorer: Deep Into the Dream World of Kyrgyzstan 2014-05-09T19:07:12Z Drunk on confidence and a sizable amount of alcohol, a beady-eyed Draper stumbles and slurs his way through a pitch meeting for Life cereal. As ‘Mad Men’ Comes to an End, Jon Hamm Reflects on Don Draper 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Although Trump has flip-flopped on abortion and has seemingly softened his perspective on Obamacare, Mike Pence, his beady-eyed running mate, has been vehemently opposed to reproductive rights throughout his political career. 'Birth control is a political act': the pre-Trump contraception rush starts now 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z There are a young boy who seems to be wearing an ape mask; a sheep-headed workman dressed in coveralls; a dog-headed man; a tall, long-beaked, beady-eyed bird that resembles an ibis but has no wings. Art Review: Jane Alexander’s Work at St. John the Divine 2013-04-25T20:34:53Z Nearby hangs a portrait of a beady-eyed, tuxedo-clad rabbit, and poppies are painted around the bar. | Mister H at the Mondrian SoHo 2011-02-09T14:00:20Z She said she had to act fast, kneeling to capture the bird’s beady-eyed profile and the headlight of one of Cuba’s classic cars. The 2015 Travel photo contest announces its winners and finalists 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z And Martin Short has a small, juicy turn as a beady-eyed druggy dentist. At New York Film Festival, History and Detectives 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Hanging in the hallway was a photograph of Mantel standing in front of the famous Hans Holbein oil painting of Cromwell: stout, beady-eyed, vaguely threatening. For Hilary Mantel, There’s No Time Like the Past 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z "We do," nodded Sir Simon Jenkins, who was also on the 2,830ft contour, celebrating the launch of a book of country diaries with Condry's sturdy, beady-eyed figure on the cover. Bill Condry's legacy lives on at Festival of Nature Writing 2010-10-22T15:07:00Z That instinct has made “Olympia” the subject of reams of beady-eyed scholarship delving into social history, class and gender. Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Turns out that despite what many of us learned in history class, the little beady-eyed rodents did not actually spread the black death throughout Europe and almost wipe out the human race. Watch John Oliver Apologize to Rats Over Rumors That They Caused the Bubonic Plague 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Foster is very good at conveying Armstrong’s beady-eyed fanaticism and inability to reconcile his “underdog hero” view of himself with the public’s deep disappointment. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z But numbers of the craggy, beady-eyed amphibians have plummeted in recent decades, with only about 126 streams now harboring healthy populations—and scientists didn't know why. Cannibalistic Dads May Be Contributing to Hellbender Salamander Declines 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z It was an unlucky dinosaur that came face-to-face with the beady-eyed glare and giant, toothy grimace of the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex. If T. Rex ’s Beady-Eyed Glare Terrifies You, It Should 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z He’s a beady-eyed grasping little rat man, an everyman opportunist with an easy slouch and a hard gaze. Apple TV’s Shining Girls is a genre-bending crime thriller 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Ruth says: "I shall leave it to the beady-eyed viewer to see if they can see where it is. It is on view." Filming Gavin and Stacey was like 'being Beyonce' 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Elizabeth Jolley, signing books at a department store in Perth, was scrutinised by a beady-eyed woman who eventually approached and asked, “How much is the table?” Being a crime writer doesn’t mean I condone murder. Do I even have to say it? | Garry Disher 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Quentin Letts, moonlighting in the Sun when he is not entertaining Times readers, calls Lady Hale a “beady-eyed old nanny goat”. End front-page falsehoods and regain the public’s trust | Alan Rusbridger 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z So beady-eyed viewers may have spotted the following: What to look for in Ariana Grande's video 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The beady-eyed gazes of every last one of the birds are fixed on Moon’s lens. As design element, ode to passion, big books are great gifts 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Among the dozen or so local immigration lawyers I spoke with, Abbott’s fellow El Paso judges were described, variously, as “rabid”, “cruel”, “brazen”, “outright racist”, “bombastic and vociferous”, “jaundiced”, and even “beady-eyed”. ‘You descend into hell by coming here’: how Texas shut the door on refugees 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z We could talk about the writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s beady-eyed observation that “the minute the phrase ‘having it all’ lost favour among women, wellness stepped in to pick up the pieces”. Gwyneth Paltrow's latest profile reveals the wellness industry's utter quackery 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Like birds of prey circling high in the desert sky, Iran’s many foes and rivals are watching the street protests in Tehran and other cities with beady-eyed anticipation. Iran's enemies would be wise not to wish for regime change 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The team has yet to go through all of the camera footage, but on the whole it went unnoticed – except by a few beady-eyed reporters. Why did Ford build a 'fake driverless car' using a man dressed as a seat? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z He was also a beady-eyed student of nature. 100 best nonfiction books: No 80 - The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne by Gilbert White (1789) 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z They are beady-eyed observers of their chosen creatures, the landscapes they occupy and their historical importance to humans. The consolation of animals 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The “Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer” meme is funny only because the man persists in telling everyone else on the planet how to behave, like some kind of beady-eyed Miss Manners. The joke isn't on Ronald Reagan's illness, but on America for elevating him 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z She was interested in people, but not simply in a beady-eyed writer’s way. Elizabeth Jane Howard: Hilary Mantel on the novelist she tells everyone to read 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Maybe you will be the beady-eyed generation that starts seeing through the disinformation, the badly imagined blah, the lies. Salman Rushdie to Grads: Try to Be Larger Than Life 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z By the time I eventually plucked up the courage to tackle the subject, the fashion in Rembrandt studies was beady-eyed disenchantment. How Rembrandt dressed his women for death 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The coverage is all about the unjust intimidations of the Russian Bear, the silent, beady-eyed Putin being the perfect personification of the beast. Propaganda and nonsense: Even more New York Times hypocrisy 2014-03-06T17:28:00Z In the kingdom of the blind the beady-eyed are free. The tribal grunts of left and right will not rescue us 2012-11-08T20:00:02Z Then his eye rested with cold malice on the beady-eyed toy dog. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z He was carefully investigating a lamp-post for a trace of moss when a beady-eyed urchin approached him with outthrust hand. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z Ye little black, beady-eyed divils, 'tis the likes av ye that goes makin' trouble for my man. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z It was hard not to imagine his more conciliatory motorcade, observed by a beady-eyed Roebuck, stroking his rifle on a grassy knoll. The Ashes in the Australian press 2011-01-09T00:08:03Z It needs to be policed with beady-eyed zeal, using its new TV fortunes. Pakistan is not the target; deal fixers are 2010-08-29T16:30:00Z The only other thing I had presence of mind to remember was the nearness about us of a lot of beady-eyed cats, and so I drew nearer and lowered my voice so none could hear. The Haunted Pajamas Mrs. Dale was a beady-eyed, round woman with a passion for bonnets, capes, soliloquies and gin. Carnival There was something in the dark little man's beady-eyed gaze that disturbed him. Death Makes A Mistake It drenched the beady-eyed, flat-iron head, flooded the swaying neck and spattered the thick scaly coils. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters She saw Mahaly as she had been in the days of her youth, comely and graceful; in her arms a small, beady-eyed boy. Kildares of Storm The chauffeur, a beady-eyed Swiss, stared approval; Crewdson, rubbing his chin, offered a deft blend of the deferential butler and the wary man of the world. Love and Lucy But when, a few minutes later, a beady-eyed weasel challenged my right of way, I wondered whether little "Squee-ek's" thoughts were so remote as those distant peaks! A Mountain Boyhood He only recognized the description of the shrill voiced, beady-eyed mail carrier. Once to Every Man Being a wise bird as well as an inquisitive one, he fluttered up to the ridge-pole of the roof and from that sanctuary listened beady-eyed to the customary tumult. Rim o' the World There were about a dozen mop-headed, beady-eyed men, and some two dozen women—two apiece—and children. Colorado Jim Children with matted hair, beady-eyed like animals, in bag-like slips, filled the doorways; adults, gaunt-jawed and apathetic, straightened momentarily up from their toil with the stubborn earth. Mountain Blood A Novel The eldest and smartest of the breeds was a beady-eyed youth answering to the name of Pake. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Here and there were entire families of substantial Germans and Swedes, and occasionally, swarthy Italians and beady-eyed, voluble Jews. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life At her very best he would never have tacked the word beauty on to her; a buxom, rotund, beady-eyed young female would have made the word beauty spring to his lips—Cléo de Bromsart, never. The Beach of Dreams Turning, Henrietta saw that a black, beady-eyed gentleman was staring at her sternly. The Tale of Henrietta Hen Meanwhile, the short beady-eyed handmaiden returned to her mistress in the kitchen, and found that lady gazing abstractedly into the fire. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches A truculent and beady-eyed dwarf whose face hardly showed above the boards was brow-beating a cringing giant of unbelievable immensity. Destiny Later on, that winter, the mice had seven young ones—seven such skinny, thread-limbed, beady-eyed little beasts that no one noticed their arrival. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men He shows there as a beady-eyed bonhomme of thirty-five or so, with a Jacobean beard, and his hair brushed back and worn long, like that of our present-day young men. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Bullet-headed, beady-eyed, a chunk of rank flesh shaped by a hundred sordid adventures, McHenry clutched at equality with these men, and it eluded him. White Shadows in the South Seas Oh, beady-eyed gods and shiny little fishes—two smacks in the same spot! The Last Shot That was why the sight of the beady-eyed, muddy-skinned, aproned women, with handkerchiefs on their heads and Oriental bundles in their hands, always distressed one. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) She made them taciturn, and beady-eyed, and lithe, and fleet, and every other adjectival thing her imagination and history book could supply. Fanny Herself There entered, hat in hand, bowing all round, a little fat, beady-eyed man, whose beard was blue-black and glossy, whose lips were red, whose nose was his most decided feature. The Middle of Things From out of a deep windfall a beady-eyed, thin-bellied fisher-cat came forth, and stopped with his feet in the crimson ribbon. Kazan They all leaned forward and regarded him with a beady-eyed sympathy. The Magnetic North The cook, a stout beady-eyed little man, eyed the two somewhat sulkily, but went away grinning over Ranulph's jokes and fingering Ranulph's generous fee. Masters of the Guild The Jew, who probably knew more than he cared to admit, grew more and more beady-eyed each time The Marseillaise was played. The Ivory Trail Her gorge rose at the pasty-faced girls, the brick-walled cellar, the unwholesome air, and the beady-eyed little woman seated at the head of the table. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl Helen gazed strangely at her bruised wrists, at the one stocking that hung down over her shoe-top, at the rent which had bared her shoulder to the profane gaze of those grinning, beady-eyed Mexicans. The Man of the Forest Madame de Montespan had heard something of these dread sacrificial rites to Satan; sufficient to fill her with loathing and disgust of the whitefaced, beady-eyed woman who dared to insult her by the proposal. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series |
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