Sentence examples for gets this faraway from inspiring English sources

Fred gets this faraway look.

"Whenever she talks about the past, her hands start to tremble and she gets this faraway look in her eyes," she said.

Remember the scene where Michael Caine's character complains about how Jane Asher's northern runaway turned live-in lover gets this faraway, 'ghostified' look, indicating she's thinking mournfully of the lover who dumped her even when flesh-and-blood Alfie's between her legs?

"I usually get this faraway look in my eye, and then say, 'It was all my idea.'.

"I'd sing a song, and I could just see the guys getting this faraway expression," she told the Palm Beach Post of Florida in 2000.

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.

From early in the film, when Frankie gets that faraway look in his eyes as he's staring at the computer screen on which images of available men flit by, to the end, the movie is tethered to the dispersed visual focus of Frankie's yearning.

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.

"Remote Woman (I'm Getting That Faraway Feeling Again)," a 1996 sculpture by Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo), portrays a sexy tribal woman languishing in the nude as she works a television remote control.

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.