Examples of use of open eyed
1. All this is being pursued open–eyed by ministers and even a readiness to accept that it will mean closure of NHS units and a more fragmented service.
2. This is not to minimize the genuine dangers so abundantly lurking for us, including the danger of daydreaming and excess optimism (the "new Middle East"). But we have to take an open–eyed approach.
3. In "Don‘t Come Knocking," which he wrote and stars in, and which Wim Wenders directed with his usual flaky but open–eyed here–and–there ramble, Shepard plays an aging Hollywood bad boy who was once a big Western star.
4. I was fucked.‘ Now clean for over three years, Brand is open–eyed about ‘his innate tendency towards addiction‘. ‘The first time I performed, that was my life from then on.
5. Idle‘s lyrics tend, in that song and elsewhere, to be jolly in their open–eyed optimism ("When you‘re chewing on life‘s gristle/ Hey, don‘t grumble, give a whistle") while cut with profanity and a relatively dark world view ("Life‘s a piece of shit/ When you look at it"). A composer named John Du Prez played trumpet on that recording, and became Idle‘s longtime collaborator, co–writing music for The Meaning of Life.