Sentence examples for troubled gaze from inspiring English sources

This exquisite, wistful observation reflects the troubled gaze through which Mr. Gurney, like so many Americans, sees a distant land that seems to keep moving closer to home.

If, as John Updike wrote, the camera's unblinking eye "invites, likes a psychoanalyst's silence, self-exposure," the troubled gaze returned from our prisoners has a similar effect on us.

Something in his malevolent gaze troubled me.

Troubled yet tranquil, they gaze out from the gloom of a jail cell, and there's a wonderful moment when she closes them, on returning to Virginia, and exults in the light; you can smell the grass and the late-afternoon air.

And no wonder: Wake In Fright is among the most excoriating demolitions of the cult of masculinity ever put on film – its Australian variant in particular – and it must have been troubling indeed to gaze into that mirror.

The wealthy lived on Cincinnati's seven hills, and when the flooding came they gazed down from their hills, troubled.

I remember singer Ian Curtis's hypnotically twitchy dancing and the way he seemed to be gazing over us at something troubling in the distance.

Averting his gaze from moralizing on the right, not to mention millennia of religious regulation, Perl discerns a campaign to judge towering, troubling creative figures by politically correct standards.

Female stars are created to be looked at; Aura invites your gaze, and troubles it.

But if our army is strong enough to have a million guns, who needs butter?The only thing that troubles me, as I gaze down from my mushroom cloud on Mount Paektu, is ensuring my legacy lives on.

Abramović immediately dissolved into tears, and for the first few seconds had trouble meeting Ulay's calm gaze.