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in the public eye

adj. of great interest to the public; "a person in the public eye" [syn: in the public eye(p)]

Usage examples of "in the public eye".

It meant that although the organization ticket won, he would, in the public eye at least, have the credit of beating the System, of going into office unhampered, of having assured beyond doubt what was at best only problematical with the Reform League.

A lifetime in the public eye enabled her to sit with a relaxed smile on her face and her manicured fingers resting easily in her lap.

Men who were going to get things done without being in the public eye needed a place where they could meet men who dwelt in shadows.

And in a remote manor house in Buckinghamshire, distinguished or notorious in the public eye only for its possession of the world's most valuable small collection of books on necromancy, a lady named Mary Greythorne is holding a Christmas Eve party, with carols and music, for her friends.

Now that the initial stages of it had come true, the main protagonists in the public eye were: Zazza, as the leader of FWA.

Moreover, certain recent scandals had made attorneys slightly disreputable in the public eye.