Sentence examples for eyes distant from inspiring English sources

They looked shocked, their eyes distant, heads bowed and shoulders rolled forward.

"Maybe he could have only got through half his clip if I had gotten there in time," Mr. Zamudio said, his voice flat and eyes distant.

Their names are Ielpi, Vigiano, O'Berg, Butler, and they pick through the muck of destruction, their eyes distant and sad, speaking of nothing but death.

Bloodshot eyes, matted hair and beard, skin puffy and sallow, eyes distant yet wild: within days, Mussorgsky (1839-81) would be dead of drink, aged 42.

The murderer is mute, his eyes distant, as the familiar sounds of prayer and desperation rise from the world's largest prison into the inky sky of a swift tropical dusk.

Her face went white, her eyes distant, and she asked, "Why couldn't my husband have been that up front with me?" The Red Cross's policy is based on the same bigotry that kept that woman's husband so deeply closeted that perhaps even he didn't know he was gay when they married.

Their eyes are distant, they are not with it.

And yet, when he talks about students who don't invest energy in his classes — not a majority, he stresses, but a persistent minority — Dr. Kopf's eyes go distant.

Once home to a system that seems to modern eyes as distant as communism, it is now a more-or-less normal capitalist country, troubled by the task of integrating the tenth of the population that consists of unhappy and often unseen immigrants.

His voice as he tells the story is steady but his eyes are distant.

Earth could be at higher risk of being hit by a comet than widely thought, according to astronomers who have suggested keeping a closer eye on distant objects.