hollow-eyed
- s characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver
- Near the waterfront, hollow-eyed children stare from the windows of tottering wooden tenements.
- It was a timely pep talk, coming after hollow-eyed Republicans had returned from town halls and covered dish dinners where angry constituents were opposed to Bush's initiative.
- Neither actor can come close to the hollow-eyed anxiety that Bruce Willis displayed in The Sixth Sense, and which anchored that movie's near superhuman grief.