"intimate gaze" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a look that someone is giving, typically during a romantic or special moment. For example, "The couple shared an intimate gaze as they remembered the moment they first met."
For him she was "this sphinx of beauty who smiles so mysteriously"; her "divinely ironic" gaze intimates "unknown pleasures"; she 'seems to pose a yet unsolved riddle to the admiring centuries' and so on.
These examples illustrate the intimate relation between point of gaze and stepping accuracy relative to environmental context.
But as this scene turned intimate and nearly prurient, no gazes were averted, and no one was calling "cut" just yet.
They look at you from Rembrandt's great group portrait, The Syndics (1662) – faces that suddenly seem alive and self-conscious, returning the beholder's gaze with a kind of intimate pity.
These guys paused in their walk to gaze over the pond, talking intimate board business and plans for the future.
Her flat gaze reminds us that these "intimate moments" are the staged provocations of an artist, not actual peepholes into her life.
The new obsession in TV (and on the Internet) is with capturing the rhythms of ordinary life -- or, at least, the kinds of intimate human interactions that have previously eluded the camera's gaze.
He is wearing his dressing gown ("Kenneth always sloped around in his dressing gown") and is gazing out of the canvas with a wry, intimate affection that is almost too private for outsiders to witness.
As Heller wrote, "TED favors tight shots for sensitive moments — 'to gaze into the speaker's eyes' — and to make an intimate frame for small Web-player screens.
TED favors tight shots for sensitive moments — "to gaze into a speaker's eyes" — and to make an intimate frame for small Web-player screens.
