Befitting his early studies in engineering as well as his piercing mad-genius gaze and unruly nimbus of hair, Varèse cited a scientific phenomenon in a 1931 letter to the harpist and composer Carlos Salzedo.
Sommelier Mads Kleppe gazed balefully at the empty place setting in front of him.
The mortal frame both weedy and bendy, the smile that hovers between the beatific and the mad, the wandering gaze of the bulging eyes: every box is ticked, and the movie functions not merely as a nostalgic gesture to "Duck Soup" — Zahedi could don a nightcap and join the mirror scene, no questions asked — but as a psychosexual gloss on Harpo's perennial misconduct.
His "evidence" is based on newspaper accounts of the time, all filtered through a male gaze that thought the suffragettes – and their leaders - were irrational, even mad.
We all work like mad to tempt Katie's gaze towards the camera, and make her laugh, or play with the dog.
The first piece of literature we hear is a play by Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), a thirteen-year-old girl — fair and blue-eyed, with a touch of the mad, bad fairy in her gaze.
And are no longer, alas: I left a screening of Avengers: Age of Ultron, the action movie of right now (beside the just-out Mad Max: Fury Road), having gazed in befuddlement as CGI cities rose and fell without a hint of crimson to spoil the happy affair.
A dude with mad, candyfloss hair and the rheumy gaze of a terminally-dull inebriate grasps the grubby supermarket carrier bag on his lap and gazes raptly, watching Rebecca dance.
'When they're on the stage at Ashbury Park, Finsbury Park or the Paris Olympia the girls gaze longingly at Dennis Wilson, the mad impetuous drummer,' gushed a typical piece in the NME circa 1967.
He doesn't whine or sulk or gaze at the camera with mad eyes and hollow cheeks.
