Sentence examples for gaze askance from inspiring English sources
IN THE final passage of "Dead Souls", Nikolai Gogol compared Russia to a troika, hurtling across the snowy steppe, while other nations "gaze askance" and wonder where this wild ride is headed.
Other nations and states gaze askance, step off the road and give [you] right of way".The quote has long been used to justify Russian exceptionalism and moral superiority.
By David S. Stern The New Yorker, March 10 , 1951P. 104 Though once they gazed askance in France View Article By Jia Tolentino By Ceridwen Dovey By Rivka Galchen By David Remnick.
That is why it must continue to be an objective of the West to see all the new independent states of the former Soviet Union survive, and thrive, to become old independent states.How to stay engagedPart of Russia's problem is, as Gogol put it, that the rest of the world "gazes askance" at what is happening there.
In reaction, many conceptually minded artists turn photography back on itself, looking askance at its panoptical gaze, and "New Photography 2012" at the Museum of Modern Art offers some interesting examples.
His gaze is examining, and he occasionally looks at people askance, which makes him appear skeptical.
Ms. Helgenberger looked askance.
Feig looked at me askance.
Hardcore musician friends were askance.
