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  • Leaving aside the logical flaw here – that knowing one's credit score doesn't suddenly change it from bad to good, or indeed change Sarah from villainess to nice potential girlfriend – it's the dead-eyed despair that gets to me.

    The Hard Sell: Experian CreditExpert 2011

  • Instead, we are treated to 75 minutes of lethargic, dead-eyed routines with apparently lip-synched lyrics and staged spontaneity every time a "fan" is asked on-stage, they miraculously seem to be wearing a Britney T-shirt.

    Britney Spears review 2011

  • In Lokitaung, I watched the elderly, dead-eyed and too feeble to stand, walk more than 3 miles one way to receive a bit of corn and beans.

    Don Golden: Turkana: Looking Into the Face of Starvation Don Golden 2011

  • So, here we have President Malcom J. Roebuck telling me, with a look of dead-eyed seriousness, that I can make $25 to $100 per hour by making and selling "metal pin-back badges" made with his $35 button crimper doohickey.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Of the dead-eyed Domnuathi, there was no sign at all.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • In Lokitaung, I watched the elderly, dead-eyed and too feeble to stand, walk more than 3 miles one way to receive a bit of corn and beans.

    Don Golden: Turkana: Looking Into the Face of Starvation Don Golden 2011

  • Now, will dead-eyed chancellor George Osborne's big swingy axe affect funding for grassroots sports?

    Gareth Southgate Tom Lutz 2010

  • The State Run Media is constantly grabbing their ankles and shilling for the Communist Democrats, and Sarah Palin still ties dead-eyed Hillary.

    Clinton edges out Palin in 'Most Admired' poll 2009

  • The lurching, dead-eyed bugs with their mind-controlling snake-thing darting in and out of open orifices may not be dripping in blood and gore, but they attack from the shadows without warning and keep coming even after they're apparently cut down.

    ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Episode 2.07: ‘Legacy Of Terror’ Recap » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • The Hitman and Her could simply have satisfied itself with displaying the cold harsh reality of any discotheque from 1975 to 1988 – Club 18-30 games like putting chipolatas down the diamanté Speedos of "the dancers" Eugene & Storm or passing custard-filled balloons between the breasts of dead-eyed girls with Bonnie Tyler hair.

    The Hitman and Her 2011

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