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wall-eyed
mod. alcohol intoxicated. Who’s the wall-eyed guy carrying the ham sandwich?
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Thus the wall-eyed horse dramatically and ethereally departs from Mrs Littlejohn's boardinghouse, hovering off the veranda like a "hobgoblin and floating, in the moon" (H 1014).
Black backed gulls stare wall-eyed at a place where beach plums once crowned dunes, part river's bottom, part sea's.
Rather, because of an operation on an inward-turning squint when I was a small child, I now have, when tired or not concentrating, the wall-eyed look of a Simpsons character.
Hunter may not be wall-eyed, like the iconic Marty Feldman, but his stooped, leering, mobile hump performance is fervently inspired.
Intellectual companionship is one thing, but for the turban-and-pearls Beauvoir, calling herself wife to the five-foot-tall, wall-eyed existentialist may have proved insupportable.
The puppy - who chose the author, not the other way around - is a "slightly wall-eyed, hyper, darn near ugly chocolate dapple dachshund named Jasper," the author writes.
We have been reduced to the level of compliant, drooling morons, sitting wall-eyed in front of the TV with our microwaved dinner and a box of McGreasy chips on our laps.
Or Saveli Kramarov, the pallid, wall-eyed comedian who left the Soviet Union to play harried apparatchiks in Hollywood and brought the laughs in a TV commercial where he searched for a "big American car with tailfins."
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