"friendly gaze" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe the act of looking at someone in a warm and welcoming manner. Example: As she spoke, John couldn't help but notice her friendly gaze and instantly felt at ease in her presence.
Her face, alternately sultry and friendly, gazes from the nation's hoardings to advertise DKNY perfume, Rimmel make-up, Superga sneakers, Material Girl clothing, Adidas sportswear, Coca-Cola and Samsung Galaxy.
Reining in his commercials-friendly gaze, Ellis takes his digital camera into the city's seedy enclaves; from the hostess bars where a young mother is forced to eke out a miserable living, to the backstreets through which her husband drives his armoured but still very vulnerable vehicle.
They are questioning traditional ideas to invent a new women-friendly gaze, as opposed to the male gaze.
Everyone has access to those impulses," he said, his friendly, direct gaze suggesting that might include, say, me.
He came across as a player-friendly coach gazing far down his bench at hopeful solutions.
The picture on the cover of her book shows a livewire of a girl with a friendly, curious, bright-eyed gaze.
Meanwhile, Internazionale's Obafemi Martins failed to score against Watford in last night's friendly, attracting the amorous gaze of Glenn Roeder, who knows he'll fit right in at St James Parkk with that kind of zing.
Susan saw that the man had an open, friendly face and a direct gaze.
They asserted that the event was a "pretext by the police to let loose a savage assault on the community and its sacred institutions", and that the police "conducted themselves as activists of the Bajrang Dal and not as officers of the law, under the benign gaze of the friendly state government".
As Ms. Simpson gazes at Mr. Ashford pleadingly from the piano and he preens like a proud, friendly lion, then turns and gazes at her with amused adoration, something wonderful is happening.
