But when I stop reading about the war, I guess I get that faraway look I always saw, as I grew up, in the eyes of countless veterans and civilians who lived through war, including my mother.
"It will open up new destinations and decrease the amount of time for people to get to faraway destinations," said Lee M. Cashell, an American businessman in Ulan Bator, who in the last six months has bought a guest house, opened a resort and started a restaurant, the UB Deli.
"I usually get this faraway look in my eye, and then say, 'It was all my idea.'.
The woman by the pool must have seen my face get this faraway, bereft look and that was when she said all the right things.
At the mention of Oum Kalthoum, the Egyptian chanteuse, Dina gets a faraway look in her eyes.
Instead, Gregory gets a faraway look, as if he's been visited by visions of Chernobyl and Boris Yeltsin, and talks about how he only ever wanted to serve.
"Whenever she talks about the past, her hands start to tremble and she gets this faraway look in her eyes," she said.
Cassie doesn't wave wands or make potions — when magic is required, Ms. Bell tilts her head and gets a faraway look in her eyes, a more passive equivalent of Elizabeth Montgomery's twitching nose in "Bewitched".
— Midway through his "Hello (Again) World" press conference Tuesday, Tiger Woods got a faraway look, as if he had left the room filled with 200 reporters for a more agreeable place.
