What is "wide-open"

Usage examples of "wide-open".

One moment she was at peace in his arms--then pure terror had surged across her face and she had screamed and begun babbling something about faces on the heights, faces in the clouds, wide-open spaces waiting to fall on her and crush her, and the next moment she had wrenched away from him and dashed away between the trees, screaming wildly.

A veteran politician, such as he would never fall asleep with wide-open eyes, lest some enemy or mischiefmaker, taking him thus at unawares, should peep through these windows into his consciousness, and make strange discoveries among the reminiscences, projects, hopes, apprehensions, weaknesses, and strong points, which he has heretofore shared with nobody.

I timed the step and the swing just right and slammed my fist into his stomach just over his belt line and the immediate spasmodic folding of his body sprayed puke over everything, and when he hit the sidewalk his mouth was a wide-open hole in a frantic, twisted face.

Despite liberal aberrations like ecological control bills, conjugal visits for prison inmates, and a wide-open abortion law (which he now thinks of as his worst legacy), Reagan in California showed steady indifference to the poor, the sick, the dissident —.

A factory, a huge alignment of conveyor belts and pounding machines, lay below, in a wide-open area.

In this mirror Jurgen saw the back of Gogyrvan's crowned head, and beyond this, Jurgen saw a queer and frightened looking young fellow, with sleek black hair, and an impudent nose, and wide-open bright brown eyes which were staring hard at Jurgen: and the lad's very red and very heavy lips were parted, so that you saw what fine strong teeth he had: and he wore a glittering shirt with curious figures on it.

He hated that wide-open staring eye, couldn't imagine what had possessed Farson to pick it in the first place.

Anyone there will tell you that time and again, when graves have been opened on suspicion, the corpses of vampires have been found, months after burial without the slightest sign of decay, their flesh pink and flushed, their eyes wide-open, bright and staring.

The archetypal ragbag of the deep unconscious: mental cacophony, nightmare broadcast fortississimo, wide-open emotional stops shrillingblaringhissing above bourdon thunder-bellow.

A letter written before she freebased cocaine one too many times, and died sitting straight up at the kitchen table, with her eyes wide-open and startled.

The parade circled the massive theatres and museums, and the walls of the palace and its park, before emerging into the wide-open spaces of the Englischer Garten, six hundred acres of immaculate lawns, fine old trees and flower beds—now fallow and snow-dusted—and icicle-fringed cascades.

Out here in the wide-open spaces of the Englischer Garten, it could be played without deafening or deranging any of the local populace, but it could be heard as far as the Marienplatz in the middle of town, where, Beck said proudly, "Lorelei's music it is to the Münchners.

A wide-open space, bright and clean, a hall larger by far than the Great Hall, with that clear domed glass ceiling.

The steel lids of both hatches, hermetically sealed during the space flight, were now wide-open.

The joking got so uproarious in the wide-open hospitality suite the La Bouche Laboratories had reserved that kindhearted Dr.