Sentence examples for nervous gaze from inspiring English sources

One thinks particularly of Geoffrey Whitehead's ambitious priest, with his nervous gaze and clinched, cautious speech.

Many of the visitors were musicians in search of a better instrument; they ranged from teenagers trying out their first handmade violin under the nervous gaze of their parents to professionals who stole longing glances at the 18th-century treasures that high-end dealers displayed in glass cases lighted like reliquaries.

But he and other Muslims, many living in the poor suburbs outside downtown Toulouse, said they had already begun to detect nervous gazes that were uncharacteristic of this city.

Jason Segel has the wary, searching look in his eyes of a person who has known humiliation; the nervous, wide-eyed gaze seems to worry, "what's next?" Though he's tall and muscular, he has soft and saggy flesh that invites derision.

The witness appeared exceedingly nervous and Arbuckle gazed fixedly at her throughout.

In progressive external ophthalmoplegia, a disorder of the central nervous system mechanisms controlling gaze, the eyes may fail to move in one or another direction.

The seagull was nervous and felt our gaze immediately.

Bieber announces, "I'm so nervous right now", before gazing over to Lentz's red Louis Vuitton x Supreme hoody as he explains the pair have today been "wearing Supreme sweaters, living the dream".

Martin grasped Boucher's hand, but she was too nervous to do much besides gaze at his face and repeat the last thing she had heard.

"I'm nervous," admits one unhappy sailor, gazing fearfully at a plate bearing a gelatinous, black-and-white mass.

The greatest explorer of the mind's jungle was Santiago Ramon y Cajal, who spent his life gazing at the nervous system through his microscope, and recording the forms of neurons in beautiful drawings.