The phrase 'open gaze' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe someone looking at something or someone with interest and curiosity. For example: She looked at him with an open gaze, as if transfixed by his presence.
And he smiles into Rachel's expectant open gaze.
When Otto lands beyond the boundaries of hat couture, adrift at sea, the sun and stars appear newly born in the open gaze of his oval innocence.
In person, he is an affable, considerate, even a charming man, of little hair – aside from the mandatory five days' stubble – and open gaze.
It was all unbearably romantic and wonderfully over the top, Meggie with her glorious red locks and her wide open gaze, Ralph and his "fine blue eyes" and his "Oh, God! My Meggie, my Meggie!
He uses them discriminately, giving you an open gaze at first handshake but choosing thereafter to make eye contact only on the most important of points.
Despite living so much of our experiences before the open gaze of the internet, we seldom talk about our problems as well as we should.
Gunther was standing, mouth open, gazing around him in the rain.
Around me, the other students were sweating, too, but they also looked tranquil, lying on their mats, palms open, gazing softly at the ceiling.
Mr. Partz's eyes are still open, gazing from a skeletal face whose starkness contrasts oddly with the gaudy mix of patterns and colors in the surrounding bedclothes.
The wide-open gaze was no big deal.
--Norman Cofsins Who of us has not witnessed the wide-open gaze of an infant's wonder and joy--only to see that same child five or 10 years later, the light of delight and astonishment gone from their eyes?
