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When squad cars near, he parks, his expression steely-eyed calm.

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After greeting a few old-timers he recognizes, Reyes turns to me, steely-eyed.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

Had his steely-eyed gaze always been so breathtaking?

Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

These are steely-eyed fiscal hawks for whom cuts in discretionary spending are a beginning, not an end unto themselves.

Paul Ryan converts David Brooks Jennifer Rubin 2011

Used to be that guys making movies would pretend they were astronauts and steely-eyed missile men ...

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Stingy, steely-eyed and spectacular, while he walked six, he fanned an equal number; and no other baserunner besides the leadoff batter Ellsbury—who was left stranded in that first inning—reached third.

One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

Stingy, steely-eyed and spectacular, while he walked six, he fanned an equal number; and no other baserunner besides the leadoff batter Ellsbury—who was left stranded in that first inning—reached third.

One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

And a great nation's foreign policy can't be built on regrets, it can't be built only on emotion, it has to be more steely-eyed than that, more responsive to immediate and long-term strategic needs.

Would Ike Have Gone to Libya? Peggy Noonan 2011

I cast a glance in Hazel's direction—she gives me the steely-eyed gaze that has caused so many budding young aethetes to realize there's room for only one poetess in our town, and Hazel's not going anywhere.

My Poetic Nemesis Con Chapman 2011

The radiant Caley Milliken aces Bianca's transformation from a sunny young wife to the Duke's shaken victim, to a steely-eyed adulteress.

Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women' Celia Wren 2010