Sentence examples for regarding the viewer from inspiring English sources
"Dee," clad in a short nightshirt and panties, rests one knee on a chair against flashy wallpaper, regarding the viewer in a defiantly come-on way.
There's an arresting photograph on the cover of the paperback edition of "The Storyteller's Daughter," Saira Shah's memoir of her adventures in war-torn Afghanistan — an Afghan boy in a turban, regarding the viewer with a shrewdly inquisitive expression.
The poster for Emmanuelle showed an elegant, short-haired woman sitting topless on an elaborate wicker throne, coolly regarding the viewer while holding one of the strands of a pearl necklace against her lips.
Fran Lebowitz, as Justice, holding scales in one hand and a sword in the other, regards the viewer with that dour look that sets up the punch line.
Among the impressive results are the wonderful "Catherine Brass Yates," an exquisite likeness of a middle-aged woman elegantly plying a needle as her long, narrow face regards the viewer with a cool stare.
In Dakar, a woman named Aïcha, in a partial leopard-print head scarf and dress, lies on a stained mattress before a scraped wardrobe topped with laundry, and regards the viewer with a slightly suspicious pride.
Among other highlights is surely one of the greatest of American portraits, the wonderful "Catherine Brass Yates" (1793-94), an exquisite likeness of a middle-aged woman elegantly plying a needle as her long narrow face regards the viewer with a cool, poised stare.
The interactive, giant suspended eye regards the viewer with an infrared camera, projecting the person's own eyes into the sculpture, giving the viewer immediate and introspective feedback.
Regarding the portraits, the viewer cannot shake a knowledge of the ideological schisms that form around issues like Iran-Contra, AIDS, and the many other crises that followed.
It was easy to walk past this piece several times before realizing that the two men pictured are not regarding the photographer (and therefore the viewer) neutrally.
Todd Solondz is not a satirist but a caricaturist, whose derisive views of middle-class characters feed into art-house viewers' prejudices regarding the tasteless and the mercantile.
