They demand long meaningful stares.
There were lots of meaningful stares into the rafters, hands clasped in supplication.
In between the silences and meaningful stares, Brian Reitzell's soundtrack beats out a rich cacophony of discordant, industrial percussion.
HBO's docudrama "Too Big to Fail", although it was based on the non-fiction book of the same name, also suffered from a push for thrills that verges on desperate, with yelling and goddammits and meaningful stares into bathroom mirrors throughout.
'Young man, I have one word for you,' says a family friend with the air of imparting the ultimate mystery, 'Plastics!' What else can a bemused young man do but sit in his bedroom, gloomily contemplating an aquarium, when words - stretched and deformed by an assortment of pregnant pauses and meaningful stares - drop like so many stones to the bottom of the conversational sea?
She's not exactly in control of the material, and "Diva" lurches from humid sex scenes to meaningful stares into space to slipshod indictments of the American film industry, as evidenced by a scene in which a loutish producer comes on to her like a pig digging around for truffles.
Only when she slipped in a pair of green teeth and began daubing her face with fake blood did people start to stare, exchange meaningful glances and roll their eyes.
He punctuated his speeches with meaningful pauses and long stares at the audience.
As a vanquished opposition leader Turnbull played the martyr card to a perfect pitch, prepared to sacrifice his career for the highest principal of them all, the imperative to stare down the deniers and take meaningful action on climate change.
