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Gimlet eye

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a squint-eye.
- Wright.

See also: Gimlet



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In "What We Believe" (page 58), Peter Bagge casts a gimlet eye on how Americans' susceptibility to hysterias dovetails neatly with a loss of faith in the Bill of Rights.
For a book that cautions us to look with a gimlet eye on expert opinion, Freakonomics is surprisingly light on documentation, and we aren't told how Levitt and Dubner analyzed the ECLS data to come to the conclusions they did.
Bloom's sources all had that gimlet eye that sees life steadily and does not blink at the darkness.
 
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