Sentence examples for pitying gaze from inspiring English sources
But the object of the film's patronizing, pitying gaze is also the person who saves it: Angela, a woman whose life is, at first glance, a web of self-delusions, compulsive deceptions and plain desperation.
Certainly he pities himself.
On the contrary, if past "anticommunist films" treated the North Korean people as part of the same nation on the basis of homogeneity, the new "anticommunist films" today pity and tolerate them from the gaze of a victor from a fundamentally different existence.
The camera's gaze doesn't include pity, just an observation of all the types of people that can all be thrown together on a street in Los Angeles.
Daniel himself would have gazed with pity as they clawed at Blair's explanations for Britain's entry into the war.
By the third episode, Cheryl and Ted have been to Hawaii together, she is calling him by the cutesy nickname T, and the two gaze upon Larry with the smiling pity of the newly smitten.
They look at you from Rembrandt's great group portrait, The Syndics (1662) – faces that suddenly seem alive and self-conscious, returning the beholder's gaze with a kind of intimate pity.
They gaze from her paintings without a trace of self-pity or pathos.
I keep speaking this to you, as if in pity at the gradual filling of the vacancy by my very own gaze etcetera.
Their gaze could mean hate or contempt or disgust; it could mean pity; it could even, sometimes, mean desire.
