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• s  carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger
  a policy of open-eyed awareness

• It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt.
• Last week the Daily Mirror moved an open-eyed step further.
• His famous remark about women being "goddesses or doormats" has rendered him odious to feminists, but women tended to walk into both roles open-eyed and eagerly, for his charm was .

• argus-eyed
• vigilant
• wakeful

News & Articles

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• Ira Robbins on Lou Reed: An Appreciation
  Lou Reed. (Photo by STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images) What gave Lou Reed volcanic power over four decades of rock and roll wasn't his musical talent – in traditional realms like melody, singing and guitar-playing, he scarcely had any – so much as his forthrightness and courage. Beginning with the demimonde he met in the orbit of Andy Warhol, he was a sharp, open-eyed observer of people, and his songs ...
  Oct. 29, 2013 - The New York Observer

Quotes

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• Ehud Olmert in KXXV News Channel 25
  In its attempts to make peace with the Palestinians and Syria, Olmert says the decision Israelis now must make is one they "have been refusing to look at open-eyed for 40 years."