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Discover LudwigThe phrase "terrified gaze" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's expression or look that conveys fear or extreme anxiety. Example: "As the thunderstorm raged outside, she looked out the window with a terrified gaze."
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Hitchcock matches Marnie's coldly terrified gaze, straight at the viewer, with Mark's ardent and aroused gaze, also into the camera, as Mark leans her into bed and, it's implied, has sex with her — rather, he rapes her.
This scene may be the closest thing to joie de vivre with which Allen can cut loose, but it's a real directorial kick, launching "Irrational Man" with an impulsive energy that carries through the entire film and that, despite the multiplicity of the plot, makes the movie seem as if it were sketched and inwardly grasped in a single, urgent, awed, and somewhat terrified gaze.
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Unsure whether to be exultant or terrified, I held her pale grey gaze for what was probably just seconds, as goose pimples spread across my body.
I matched his gaze, which both thrilled and terrified me.
He writes that it was like gazing into something you've always been terrified of and finding it magnificent.
With her expressive features and unwavering gaze, Peake suggests at different times a chirpy, bright-eyed resilience or a terrified surrender to despair as she endures her travail-filled travels.
Interrupting her monologue, Edna pinned my neighbor in her merciless gaze and inquired, "Did you go to the hairdresser this morning, possum?" The reply was a terrified "No".
I'm terrified, terrified".
Absolutely terrified".
Why terrified?
Bob, terrified?
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