It was an interesting point of departure from the more familiar editorial gaze, and I was very sad to see it go.
Richie Benaud, who has died aged 84, was perhaps best known latterly for his work as a global cricket commentator, with his distinctive voice, familiar fixed gaze, prominent bottom lip and carefully tended coiffure.
Tears began to stream from those baby blues as our eyes met in a familiar, unspoken gaze, like the heavy silence that follows a flurry of unanswered hints between charades partners as the last grains of sand slip through the timer, moments before they forfeit the match to the Robertsons, those smug bastards.
That old familiar male gaze always seems to get in the way of taking heroines seriously—how better to subvert it than by casting a female lead and putting a camera in her own hands?
Kids have always chanted the familiar refrain — gazing out the window wistfully, chin on fist — as if they had the power to make it happen.
The crowds formed and fell apart, silently listening for familiar names, gazes fixed across Broadway, into a sky that seemed violated, like a room ransacked by a burglar.
Some greet familiar faces; others gaze around with disdain.
How lonely to inhabit the planet without that familiar and alien gaze to keep us company.
Journalists celebrated the Garibaldi legend in print, shared intimate details of his personal life, and made his image, with his gray beard and mesmerizing gaze, familiar to everyone.
With a flag pin in his lapel and a silver tie to match his silver hair, Obama fixes the camera with that familiar sober, sympathetic gaze.
