SITTING in an East Side hotel suite in early October, across from the writer-director Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz picked up a glossy, oversized magazine and gazed admiringly at the cover photograph of Uma Thurman.
But while we're gazing at glossy baby pics and trying to determine whether a female celebrity's protruding belly means she's with child or just ate a burger for lunch, women whose pregnancies don't make the magazines are too often finding themselves injured, sick, financially devastated, or even dead.
They understood by instinct, he added, that there was "territory to be staked out between the viewer's gaze" and their glossy, shallow lives.
So why don't we do something about it — close a few tax loopholes, regulate the banks — instead of gazing at the glossy real estate brochures that come in the mail?
A glossy, reflective surface that allows us to gaze at ourselves and know where we stand (we stand in front of the computer watching videos on eHow.com about how to clean countertops)." — Patrick Farrell The San Francisco Chronicle: A fascinating profile of Tegan Passalacqua, who travels California in search of old-vine vineyards.
She dropped her gaze to find two, perfect, glossy, noble Blue Boots!
As I gaze at my student's glossy Mohawk, I realize that his generation has already changed.
I saved seventy-seven lives!" Then words would fail him, and he would gaze at the picture with his glossy head cocked, looking out beyond the swimming line to where the river ran strong.
He is a young man with long, glossy hair, meaty shoulders, and a shy, slightly tearful gaze.
While working in advertising, Lisboa learned to employ the eye-catching colors and glossy imagery of our visual culture to draw in the viewer's gaze.
