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hawk's-eye
[ hawks-ahy ]
noun
- a dark-blue chatoyant quartz formed by the silicification of crocidolite, used for ornamental purposes. Compare tiger's-eye ( def 1 ).
hawk's-eye
noun
- a dark blue variety of the mineral crocidolite: a semiprecious gemstone
yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hawk's-eye1
Example Sentences
Soaring a hundred or more feet in the air, a drone camera captures hawkâs-eye viewsâand dazzlingly abstract patternsânormally impossible for earthbound humans.
In the High Street, St. Mary the Virgin, parish church of the University, provides a hawkâs-eye view from its 13th-century tower with all those âdreaming spiresâ Matthew Arnold gushed over in the 1860s.
And the measure â along with a previous suggestion in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference that Obama should have tortured Osama bin Ladenâs son-in-law â provided yet another window into his political philosophy: a hawk's-eye view of American exceptionalism honed by his own boots on the ground.
The hawk's-eye view shows the wreckage of mountains, dead land that will not revegetate, soured rivers, towns left to wither when mineral prices dropped and distant corporate directors cut their losses.
A hawk's-eye view makes the case unforgettable.
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