Sentence examples for Downcast gaze from inspiring English sources

And Serkis is present not visible but intensely apprehensible, in every twitch, snarl, and downcast gaze of his animal avatar.

The psychiatrist who assessed Adam, Robert King, recorded that he was a "pale, gaunt, awkward young adolescent standing rigidly with downcast gaze and declining to shake hands".

The downcast gaze, a staple of the presentation of women to the camera, should have a touch of sullenness if it is not to seem insipid.

With her modest downcast gaze and fine artificial complexion, she has the same fetishised femininity you might see in a Manga comic and appears to reflect a specific social construction of gender.

This put-upon, gentle man is reminiscent of Quoyle in Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: "a great damp loaf of a body … As a child he developed stratagems to deflect stares; a smile, downcast gaze, the right hand darting up to cover the chin".

In more than a thousand games, across eighteen seasons, we saw his pause on the mound, with the glove and ball held motionless at his waist, his downcast gaze, and then the easy, pleasing motion, with the arm well up and then slashing downward, and the ball — the cutter again, no doubt — quickly writing a final game stat across a sliver of the strike zone.

Both have similarly downcast gazes, and they lean toward each other in sympathetic poses that establish an affinity, at least photographically.

When I forgot the book at a restaurant and had to double back to retrieve it, the waitstaff had buried it deep in the basement and bumbled around with excruciating awkwardness before they handed it back with downcast gazes.

The piece, which depicts the moment of impact — a colossal Mr. Zidane, gaze downcast and stern, driving Mr. Materazzi off his feet, anguished — is a monument to defeat, said Mr. Abdessemed, 41, but also to "an act of freedom".

Instead her gaze is downcast, sideways — anywhere but into the face of her interlocutors, whether they are friendly or decidedly not.

And yes, his gaze is distinctly downcast.