The phrase "a firm gaze" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's steady and unwavering look, often conveying confidence or determination.
Example: "She met his eyes with a firm gaze, unflinching in the face of his accusations."
Alternatives: "a steady stare" or "a resolute look."
A firm gaze, like a firm handshake, might be a minimum.
It demands that we who act do so with a firm gaze upon the face of the other.
Up close Choque seemed a friendly if stern character, with a firm gaze, a tank-like physique and a knuckle-crunching handshake.
Bolt won while slowing in his final four strides in a time of 19.32 seconds, and he crossed the line with his head turned to keep a firm gaze on Blake.
By Pearl Kazin and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, August 29 , 1953P. 20 A very young office boy, waiting for the elevator on his last day at work for a big firm, gazed at his final pay check in astonishment.
The New Yorker, August 29 , 1953P. 20 A very young office boy, waiting for the elevator on his last day at work for a big firm, gazed at his final pay check in astonishment.
When I arrive, the evening training session has just started and the boxers are working up a sweat under the coach's firm gaze.
The Christian doctor whom Nona Màlia married is described as "majestic, bearded, and taciturn"; Rita, a fellow-student, has "her shabby clothes, her firm gaze, her concrete sadness"; Cesare, one of those morally strong, physically vital men who sustain Levi in time of need, is "very ignorant, very innocent, and very civilized".
WE are in rented office space at a White Plains law firm, gazing in ambiguous admiration at the upper shelves of Robert L. Shepherd's otherwise bland bookcase where, not books, but his carefully curated cigarette collection is displayed like cellophane-wrapped eye candy.
Mr. Worthington showed up the very next week and greeted me with a firm handshake and a steady gaze from steel-blue eyes.
