Sentence examples for absent gaze from inspiring English sources
"absent gaze" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to describe someone's lack of attention or focus, particularly when their eyes appear unfocused or distant. Example: The teacher grew increasingly frustrated as she noticed the student's absent gaze and lack of participation in the class discussion.
The ever-cheerful maid Saru would sometimes "look at us with a cold, absent gaze, as if a mask had slipped for a moment".
She looked up from her phone with an absent gaze.
Cars rush by, commuters hurry into the busy subway station at the corner, a few people absent-mindedly gaze in its direction while sitting at the bus stop.
In one piece I give a powerpoint presentation to the audience about all of my ex-boyfriends called Ex-Boyfriend Show while in another, called Boy Show, I direct eight male performers and although I'm physically absent, the female gaze is strong.
It's not as if women are absent from the theatregoers' gaze.
And although I could barely see the wet glint of his eye, his gaze seemed absent of reproach — and that realisation almost made me weep.
Her expression is absent and sad, eyes gazing in two directions, as if she is looking simultaneously at a past filled with family and a future with none.
Mr. James stepped out onto the terrace and gazed absent-mindedly toward Broadway.
The male gaze is curiously absent – female dancers dress as sea urchins or bowler-hatted functionaries rather than porn stars.
With the political and moral concerns that once occupied Barker's characters and her readers—now absent from the narrative, their gaze is free to wander over the smooth surface of things.
The neurologic examination revealed moderate dysarthria, a right Horner syndrome, vertical nystagmus in all extreme gaze positions, an absent right gag reflex, right facial and left two limb hypoalgesia and thermoanesthesia, mild paresis of the right limbs, and severe right limb ataxia.
