Word: stare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pause, withering stare) "You saw it?' (disinterested gaze, combined with sip from sherry glass and lengthy stare at shoelaces) "Yes." (raised eyebrows, implication of deep passions long ago; brutal, passionate love, spurned by a lover ago; brutal, passionate love, spurned by a lover who came out of the closet on a Venetian gondola and shtupped his wife in their bridal suite...
...that we have to go to India? His face still unchanged, but his body now wrapped in a robe, you can imagine Murray deadpanning. "I went to the East in search of meaning, and all I got was this robe." In return for watching Murray stare catatonically into space at various spots on the introspection circuit, we can feel only like we've intruded on some sort of home movie: lots of pretty pictures, clear evidence the trip indeed took place, our host conspicuously juxtaposed against exotic environments...
...YEARS AGO, eating popcorn at the opera would have been considered the ultimate in gauche. The sound of crunching kernels would have elicited a chorus of sneers from the rows of tiaras and tuxedos. Sourpussed dowagers, lowering their opera glasses, would stare icily at the boor who slipped by the ushers...
...Tootsie. Lange spends much of her time on screen--and here that's a lot of time--just staring into the camera. When the manager of the farmers' agency tells her and her husband that they won't be able to get any more loans, she doesn't yell or even say anything; she simply stares emptily at him. In fact, when anything goes wrong, which is almost always. Lange assumes the all-purpose stare and leaves it to the audience to decipher the nuances of her character's feelings. The result is frustrating, to say the least, especially...
...Charles Davis, 36, seemed inexorably drawn to the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial in Washington. A D.C. police officer for more than 15 years, Davis is said to have once called the memorial "the ugliest thing I ever saw." Yet he would often visit it after finishing his duty, to stare at the 148 black granite slabs inscribed with the names of the 57,939 Americans killed or missing in the Viet Nam War. A decorated veteran, Davis had served in Viet Nam with the 101st Airborne Division when he was only 17 years old. On a bright cool morning last...