Word: half-shut
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...Through half-shut lids I watched concerned friends, milling crowds, and kind of laughed to see them eyeing me. Through wide-open ears I heard the half-hearted "Sox stink" jokes, barriers against the pain of opening day losses...
Nicholson always has an aura of unnatural tension around him--he seems to wait a split second too long before reacting, and even then all of this extremes, violent or boyish, flash out of those same, perpetually half-shut eyes. With his hairline receding and the lines of his face hardening now into some sort of death mask. Nicholson doesn't try to play Chambers as the twenty-three year old punk Cain envisioned. Instead he slouches around like a bored satyr. He seems to revel in his decay, in his unnerving ability to play an utterly reptilian Don Juan...
Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes, as Alexander Pope put it ironically, opened quite a few eyes in India last week. For thousands of Indians, the coffeehouse is indispensable as a place to meet friends, transact business, talk, write, and incidentally, consume coffee, along with free ice water and cashew nuts. Politicians, wise or unwise, come and go, inflation gallops, the population spirals; but in the coffeehouse things remain the same-or at least they did until the great betrayal...
Hairdos & Dog Hairs. Asks Lasky: "Was there ever any political leader who devoted so much time worrying about his hairdo?" He quotes Newsweek: "Kennedy carries a white manicurist's pencil to make his fingernails whiter." And Westbrook Pegler: "Kennedy looks at people through half-shut eyes. If a guy can't look me square in the eye, I don't trust him." (Almost 200 pages later, Lyndon Johnson is quoted: "I can tell a man by looking in his eyes. I looked in John Kennedy's eyes and I liked what I saw.") Lasky even quotes...
...Eyes half-shut to the glare...