Thus all my mind, absorbed, was gazing... Never mind what the image has been brought in to describe.
These fantastical images hold and absorb the gaze.
For three months, she sat in a chair at New York's Museum of Modern Art, silently absorbing the gaze of whoever took the chair opposite.
Night falls quickly this close to the equator, and soon we were absorbed in star-gazing.
While their children swing from the highest beam or complete their first width, or clatter down a slide into a ball pool, these people are like human shadows with lowered gazes, absorbed in their smartphones, fingers jabbing away at touchscreens.
The 3-D is unusually graceful — your gaze is absorbed rather than assaulted — and you are pulled into a world of lovely and disconcerting strangeness with plenty of time to puzzle over the behavior of its inhabitants.
Unaware of the camera, they are absorbed in thought or gaze absently; they are how we act most of the time, walking down the street, in a crowd, focused on something or nothing.
These pictures (part of an ARTnews series called "... Takes a Picture") set the stage for a new kind of artist portrait, in which the artist is neither aloof nor locked in a human gaze, but absorbed in the process of working.
He absorbs her "axolotl gaze" after sex.
Meanwhile, any woman who glistens blankly at the camera, absorbing the male gaze like Vantablack draining sunlight, is considered to have crossed the Rubicon from serious to salacious.
She looks out, but her gaze in unfocused, absorbed in reverie.
