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big eyes

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"Big eyes" describes eyes that are large or look large due to makeup or expression. It often suggests innocence, surprise, awe, or pleading, and can describe a look someone gives.

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There is nothing more painful in the world than Aly when she makes her big eyes. She makes her big hurt eyes, there's nothing you can do. She just kills you. Joss Whedon

We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out...we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night...and thus we wait for morning. Erich Maria Remarque

Children do have big eyes. When I'm doing a portrait, the eyes are the most expressive part of the face. And they just got bigger and bigger and bigger. Margaret Keane

Fear has big eyes. Russian Proverb

The stranger has big eyes but he doesn't see anything. Ivorian Proverb

A stranger has big eyes but sees nothing. African Proverb

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