"candid gaze" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone looking at someone or something in a sincere, open, or honest manner. It can also imply a sense of curiosity or interest. Example: As she walked into the room, all eyes turned to her, but it was his candid gaze that caught her attention. She could tell he was genuinely interested in getting to know her.
Thorn is not afraid of the candid gaze, at least not where her professional gift is concerned.
The emotional impact is more deeply felt in Denisa Musilova's candid gaze or the curve of Savina Theodorou's back as she sits on the floor and turns her head to show the graceful line of her throat.
Yet by the time he wrote "O, Thou Opening, O," from "The Waking," even Roethke seems to have grown impatient with his style: "And now are we to have that pelludious Jesus-shimmer over all things, the animal's candid gaze, a shade less than feathers... I'm tired of all that, Bag-Foot".
One woman, with a sturdy neck, a cap of frizzed hair and a candid, unfazable gaze, could be a suburban mom.
He engages the eye with his candid blue gaze: "You know how it is," he adds, shrugging apologetically, "when the adrenalin kicks in".
This would account for the figure's physical luxe — her great coat is drizzled with drops of paint the color of molten gold — and for its direct and candid outward gaze.
"The Terminal" and "The Steerage" are here, but so are early genre scenes shot in Europe; wonderful off-beat portraits, including one of the New York frame maker George F. Of, with his thick beard and candid, amused gaze; and a number of autumnal Lake George landscapes made not long before the ailing Stieglitz abandoned photography in 1937.
Both painters used the candid and confident gaze of a young girl of privilege - Infanta Margarita was just 5 years old when Velazquez immortalized her on canvas, and Julia Boit was 4 when Sargent painted her - to engage the viewer.
When with with daring lights of face Of candid grace, I the protecting strange Must turn my gaze, for fear I lose that vision, for the mind Needs shade to find The full light of the sphere.
Her gaze, assessing and candid, through the dark, made his heart leap against his ribs.
She has bird's-nest hair, a candid air and a direct black gaze.
