Her makeup was impeccable, her voice low-pitched and confident, her gaze focused on certain photographers.
Its gaze focuses our gaze, its eyes are the centre of our attention, and the rest of it fades out into darkness and into the unknown.
"Over there," my 12-year-old son, Charles, observed, his still-round chin nodding upward from a pressed collar, his gaze focused on something in the distance.
A young man stands in the middle of the street during a storm, his gaze focussed somewhere far behind the lens.
I had noticed him before we boarded: the way he sat with his feet resting on his carry-on, his gaze focused on the open pages of a book.
"I know when you were little girls, you dreamed of being in my world," she croons over trap-style drum claps, strangely pitched vocals and a siren-esque synth, her gaze focused presumably on Rita Ora, Rihanna and poor Michelle Williams.
"Eddie," taken in New York in 1948, is a gentle portrait of a hapless-seeming man, his gaze focused intently downward, one hand holding a cloth tote and the other a mismatched sprig of flowers.
"Listen, that's racing, isn't it?" said O'Brien, when asked how his jockey copes with being at the centre of attention in almost every race, the public gaze focused on his mishaps as well as his triumphs.
When the world's gaze focuses on a single televised moment, it's what's in the periphery of our vision that unites us.
Her gaze focused on something unseen in the background.
