Shoe-button eyes
Banffy's trilogy of novels on the slow but certain self-destruction of the 19th century Hungarian aristocracy includes the figure of...
Prune-like eyes
A clever lawyer who bides his time and slowly, quietly hoovers up the assets of dissolute aristocrats, while ever fawning...
A predatory gaze
A penetrating gaze likened to the steadfast unblinking focus of an owl about to swoop for its targetted lunch. I...
Like sunlight on a landscape
You can see an overcast English landscape of rolling hills and fields, and a sudden break in the clouds pierced...
Hangover face
Wonderful way to describe the face of a hungover man, though no doubt he felt every bit as bad as...
Blank as a wall, wall as a blank
The identical twins Ladies Cora and Clarice aren't just lookalikes, but also one another's echo chambers. They live in their...
As expressionless as …
Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy is packed with original metaphor and simile. In Titus Groan, the first book, I noted two...
The eyes have it
WritingRedux has long been captivated by quotations describing eyes and we're now delighted to dedicate a themed...
Captain Grekov’s eyes
This is a memorable description of Captain Grekov, commander of House 6/1 in the rubble of Stalingrad, summing up so...
Hungry Buddha
A wonderful description of Boris Johnson in the recent BBC debate among candidates for the role of Prime Minister. When...
Eyes meeting eyes
Dorothea stuns a silly, wilful and selfish young woman with her powerful, radiant kindness and, having meant to disdain her,...
The call of duty
This magnificent story, which features lions in unexpected places, describes the look of the kingly creature when glimpsed at dawn,...
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