Sentence examples for direct glance from inspiring English sources

Several players said they dared not make eye contact with Mr. Dutoit while he conducted and instead followed his directions through the sides of their eyes to escape his direct glance.

To avoid a direct glance from the divinity they had just implanted, the artists worked with their backs turned, using a mirror.

The screen is a bit dark and unreadable at acute angles but I always enjoyed being able to read my steps taken with a simple direct glance at the watch, something almost none of the other fitness devices offer.

It's such a direct, quizzical glance.

Everything is ratcheted up through counterpoint: black against white, oblique profile to direct outward glance, funereal darkness to daylight.

And here is Van Dyck's double portrait of the writer Thomas Killigrew and his companion dramatised in counterpoint: funereal satin against white silk, oblique profile against direct outward glance.

It's open at the bottom, and I saw several people direct puzzled glances at its roughly carpentered interior.

As the hours tick away and a 10-strong shoot crew flick through magazines and direct hopeful glances at the door every time it swings open, I am reminded of the words of Miss Jean Brodie, when summoned to a meeting at 4.15pm: "Four fifteen.

It was a good spell for Thistle with Craigen next to threaten when he got on the end of a Gabriel Piccolo cross to direct a glancing header just wide of the right-hand post.

During those descriptions, she frequently shook her head, directing indignant glances at her lawyer.

From the witness stand, Vander Ark directed beseeching glances toward Rowling, who was sitting a few yards away, but she slowly shook her head.