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in the public eye |
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in the public eye known and talked about by many people. The former senator remained in the public eye even after retirement. We need to keep education in the public eye if we want support for improvements in our schools. Usage notes: the opposite meaning is expressed by out of the public eye: Illness kept the actor out of the public eye for eighteen months. |
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Thus used to living in the public eye, the actors carry off their parts at weddings and other dramatic ceremonials, with more spirit than is easy to a townsman, who is naturally made self-conscious by being suddenly called upon to fill for a day a public position for which he has had no training. I did not regret it, but I had made my change of front in the public eye, and I felt that it put me at a certain disadvantage with my fellow- citizens; as for the Senator, whose office I had forsaken, I met him now and then in the street, without trying to detain him, and once when he came to the printing-office for his paper we encountered at a point where we could not help speaking. In the days when he was most fully in the public eye the invincible obscurity of his origins clung to him like a shadowy garment. |
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in the public eye