"vacant gaze" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English
It refers to a distant or blank expression on someone's face, often indicating that their mind is elsewhere or they are not fully present in the moment. Example: "The teacher noticed a vacant gaze in the eyes of her students, signaling that they were not paying attention to the lesson."
A wordless glimpse of identity or just a vacant gaze?
The woman in "Portrait of a Young Lady" has an appealing but vacant gaze.
With his vacant gaze, jutting jaw and open downturned mouth, Mr. Kind often assumes an expression like the mask of tragedy gone amok.
Gorman, with his gray stubble and rheumy eyes, may look closer to the Central Casting notion of the Skid Row denizen, but Rogosin lets us see the canny hustler behind the vacant gaze.
It was the quality, both defensive and offensive, under duress, and though the strain was evident on their faces, above all Djokovic's with his slightly vacant gaze, it was not nearly so evident once the ball was in play.
There's the uncertain smile and vacant gaze of someone who doesn't quite know how he found himself here, but suspects that they must, nonetheless, persist in attempts at ingratiation.
Though he later tempered his political message, he continued to address the largely thankless roles of the working class housewives, repairmen, office cleaners, dishwashers, museum guards, and janitors, whose bowed heads and vacant gazes reveal boredom and exhaustion.
The springs, which gush as hot as 115 degrees, may or may not cure ailments, but at the very least they seem to elicit cheerily vacant gazes from bathers.
With their matted hair and vacant gazes, the models, led by Natalia Vodianova, looked possessed by zombies, but you can bet that people will wonder when they can get their hands on the elephant-belled thigh-high tights that Mr. Wang showed with his miniskirts and platform boots.
A forty-five-minute-deductible policy would leave plenty of time for the host to cancel his party at the first sign of faltering conversation, vacant gazes, or long anecdotes, and he still wouldn't be in the hole for the rack of lamb".
With its numerous close-ups, the scene--set in a medical lab and featuring a researcher-turned-zombie--would require a number of vacant gazes, plenty of door-banging and as spooked-out viewers will recall, a creepy form of teeth-chattering.
