Sentence examples for being gazed upon from inspiring English sources

And no era is presently being gazed upon with more pie-eyed approbation than the waning years of the twentieth century.

The women of "Groupies" are composed and sensual but also keenly aware that they are being gazed upon; their vamping seems centered upon a kind of defiant, come-at-this stare.

The incident reflected the cultural trend that being gazed upon while naked would cause different forms of distress, threatening the "stability of the self as subject".

Several months must pass before it can be gazed upon again.

"Scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight," is how Livingstone described the falls.

Caitya, (Sanskrit: "that which is worthy to be gazed upon," thus "worshipful"), in Buddhism, a sacred place or object.

In theory, 18th century society had no place for someone like me except to be gazed upon as an exotic other.

"The Chemical Wedding" is full of outlandish set pieces — candles that walk on their own; a queen's gown so beautiful it can't be gazed upon — that might suggest an allegorical reading.

Do these hard-shelled heroes, some of whom may have been gazed upon by Darwin himself, now gaze in turn upon Attenborough with sympathy, knowing that the landscape the ancient BBC apologist once thrived in is soon to be entirely stripped away by the doctrine of the free market?

The Times review concluded, "when slavery has become a surprise and a horror to everyone in the land; when the Proclamation of President Lincoln has passed into history as a splendid trophy of a sanguinary war; when the gratitude of a people that no longer knows a bondman reverts to the heroes that made them glorious, then will such a canvas be gazed upon with respectful admiration".

It had never been seen before by European eyes, but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight".