You look up at him — and there he is, looking straight back at you.
"Where are you from?" The man looked straight back at him, his face pinched and therefore overstated, but unflinching.
"I said to her: 'What do you want from coaching?' She just looked straight back at me and said 'hope'hope
All of her subjects, no matter how down and out, looked straight back at Ms. Mark, and her camera never flinched.
By incorporating a gaze locking detector in a consumer-level camera, the camera could automatically take a picture when the entire group is looking straight back, allowing the photographer to join the group and still capture a perfect photo.
This artist who lived and worked in 17th-century Amsterdam, who in his lifetime was rich and poor and happy and ruined, who painted portraits of such depth and perceptiveness that when you stand in front of one you feel challenged by the living essence of a person looking straight back at you, does not need to be namechecked to make him profound, arresting or timeless.
"His eyes looked straight back to me like, 'Yeah, what you got?' That's the point.
I grabbed his snout, looked straight back at him, cleaned up his pee, and took him directly outside.
For the photo shoot, participants wore no makeup, had their hair loose (combed backwards if long), underwent similar cleaning or shaving procedures for both conditions, and were instructed to "sit with a straight back and look straight into the camera with a neutral, relaxed facial expression".
