The phrase "catch the gaze" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to capture or hold someone's attention through eye contact. Example: The magician's performance was so captivating that he was able to catch the gaze of the entire audience.
Even on a purely aesthetic level, the pieces can easily catch the gaze of a passerby.
The light would catch the gaze of animals who happened to pass by, leading them to pause momentarily in a captivated trance.
Sand is waiting in line at a check-in-desk when his eyes catch the gaze of an Israeli Arab woman sitting on a bench nearby.
Beyond just his productions, a frentic and entertaining blend of clubs sounds interlaced amidst cuts of popular music, the DJ and producer has been helping to expand his city's grasp on the music, much in part to the monthly warehouse event #THREAD which brings in some of the hottest talent and continues to catch the gaze of the industry.
Then Steven Lopez, a lanky 6-foot-2 fighter with a blinding smile, looked up to the stands where his family stood and caught the gaze of his sister, who came within one spot of making the American team.
Despite standing only 5 feet tall in heels, she often caught the gaze of men in the street, being attractive and full-figured.
What probably will have you caught in the gaze of the green-eyed-monster is this fascinating virtual tour of the Roland Museum in Japan.
Increasingly, Jesus Christ, the Virgin, and the martyred saints of the church are represented alone or in groups, in strict hieratic frontality (in which the figures are arranged facing forward), gazing out to catch the eye of the onlooker.
It wasn't because I gazed up to catch the glorious peaks of Grouse Mountain, or because I took a sandy stroll along English Bay or because I was suddenly inundated by the scent of skunk and/or skunky weed.
In real time, it delivers information about the gaze position, where a designed Graphical User Interface (GUI) is used to catch the intention of user.
Instead, he sends his foolish, barely grown son Travis (Haley Joel Osment) to see it and report back — but Travis, once in Hollywood (and out from under his father's watchful gaze), catches the Hollywood spirit and turns into an arrogant and depraved little tyrant, whose unslaked sexual appetites and raging jealousy threaten to sink Vince's film.
