The gaze is oblique and alluring, as if she is engaged with someone offstage.
Research by Nancy Eisenberg, perhaps the world's expert on the development of compassion in children, has found that there is a particular facial expression of compassion, characterized by oblique eyebrows and a concerned gaze.
For example, in epochs showing increased arousal, the infant is more fidgety and therefore their eye is more likely to be oblique to the eyetracker, or their gaze velocity is higher, and the pupil therefore appears smaller due to inaccurate measurement.
Sometimes, he would answer as I imagined a monk should, gazing into the distance and delivering oblique replies.
This was due in part to the oblique angle skewed, amused, and none too impressed at which he gazed upon the world, and which seemed to rebuke the bluster of the big studio releases.
This was due in part to the oblique angle — skewed, amused, and none too impressed — at which he gazed upon the world, and which seemed to rebuke the bluster of the big studio releases.
Eye gaze is difficult to isolate in animals with eyes positioned at an oblique angle, and it had been suggested that non-primates cannot use eye gaze independently of head orientation [2,4].
One-fourth of the photographs in the corpus on the other hand can be interpreted in terms of narrative processes (Kress and van Leeuwen 2006: 59–72), whereby NGOs' members of staff and beneficiaries are shown engaged in activities of some kind, as indicated by 'vectors', that is, oblique lines created by their limbs that provide a sense of action, or lines of gaze.
The gaze shift creates a perceptual "jump": the direction of the disk snaps from an oblique descent to a vertical descent (periphery to fovea) or from a vertical descent to an oblique descent (fovea to periphery).
The oblique muscles are strictly antagonistic to each other, but they work with the vertical rectus muscles in so far as the superior rectus and inferior oblique both tend to elevate the gaze and the inferior rectus and superior oblique both tend to depress the gaze.
