Gazing becomes staring, possibly at pathology, given the people's extreme thinness and their evident fondness for surgical procedures.
In London the FTSE fell by 11% on the Monday, a further 12% on the Tuesday and another 6% on the Thursday; those who worked through the slide reported how the shock of share price slumps caused some traders to become paralysed, staring blankly at their screens, with "sweat running down their faces".
The portrait session becomes a staring contest, and no one wins.
Ask someone else to read over your essay as sometimes a fresh pair of eyes can spot mistakes more easily than yours which have probably become bloodshot from staring at a screen for too long.
The face in "Mum" is corpse-pale and barely human, but the figure's swollen torso has become a vehemently staring mask, with the breasts turned into eyes and the heart into a nose.
As the Sun rose higher and became more intense, staring at the tiny shadow of Venus for any length of time became gradually less attractive.
Finally, her staring became obvious.
She grows more talkative, while he becomes more contemplative, staring hard into the fryer, eyes on some unknown horizon.
The staring becomes a looming presence over the course of the evening: not exactly a dark cloud, but always there, nonetheless.
This man, I became aware, was staring at me - staring, that is, when he was not kissing and nibbling at the nape of a blonde (subsequently identified to me as Eva Marie Saint) beside him.
