wide-eyed

Preposition: at

everything: I filmed them all as they passed me, pushing their trolleys and gazing, wide-eyed at everything.

Modifies a noun

• innocence: For all David O'Leary's wide-eyed innocence, he is nobody's mug.
• stare: When I asked about the severe discipline at El Bulli, he fixed me with a wide-eyed stare.
• wonder: Carine clambered out of her bunk and she and Amalia shared looks of wide-eyed wonder that mirrored the children's.
• child: Wherever we went in the village we seemed to be followed by a crowd of wide-eyed children.
• excitement: For sheer, wide-eyed excitement, nowhere else comes close to Staffordshire.
• expression: Instead, Huston just pulls this horrible wide-eyed, open-mouthed expression for 90 % of his scenes.

Modifying Another Word

• very: According to my colleagues I was pure white, very wide-eyed.
• rather: Again it was wonderful to see how friendships and trust grew from rather wide-eyed beginnings!
• so: I was just so wide-eyed about it all, but it was pretty exciting for that reason.

Used with adjective complement

• stare: D sat staring wide-eyed at the image of a faded naked woman.
• watch: The Sheriff's men, believing a ghost is among them, watch wide-eyed, holding their fire.
• go: This was another thing I loved - the benevolent communists going wide-eyed into the unrestrained free-market capitalism of New Mars.
• sit: Julie, on a teenage vegetarian kick, sat wide-eyed.
• listen: You primary-school child will listened wide-eyed to what you say, and usually believe it.

Preposition: in

anticipation: Finney is wide-eyed in anticipation of this kind of criticism.

Preposition: with

• wonder: Humor, music and eye-popping acrobatics leave the audience wide-eyed with wonder.
• amazement: And within two spoonfuls they were all wide-eyed with amazement that it tasted good.