Grand seems to have a magpie-like eye, always looking for something shiny and new.

I used to have a magpie's wish for them; and now- Idon'tknow, but they don't give me pleasure.

TRAVEL:Paul Theroux has a magpie-like mind that jumps from subject to subject.

Joey himself conceded he has a magpie approach to music.

This is valuable, but Challenger has a magpie mind.

That little creature has a magpie's fondness for plunder.

It might have been an argument, but Moth had a magpie's curiosity-ormerely an adolescent's-anda new city to explore.

"I do not know how I could have been deceived in him for so long; he has a magpie eye."