Disconcerting gaze

Usage examples of stare.

I sometimes stole a corner glance at him, and encountering his fiery, eager stare, looked another way from pure horror and affright, which he, doubtless in character, attributed to nothing more than maiden modesty, or at least the affectation of it.

The children stared at him, a kind of insane affrontery in their faces, as if they could not believe that he would defy them.

She stared at the portable lab and X-ray machine, their related processors, and the latest in alloplastic and autogenous grafting materials in refrigerated cases.

And suddenly and most wonderfully the door of the room upstairs opened of its own accord, and as they looked up in amazement, they saw descending the stairs the muffled figure of the stranger staring more blackly and blankly than ever with those unreasonably large blue glass eyes of his.

The inspector had stopped suddenly, and was staring with a look of absolute amazement at a paper upon the table.

MacDonald and White Mason stared in amazement at their celebrated colleague.

The coyote in the picture had faded to a greenish-yellow and its yellow eyes were almost white, but it stared out of the picture looking as hearty and unconcerned as Jake Ambler, wearing its camera face.

Filfaeril sat alone in the apse of a silent throne room, staring down a long ambulatory bounded by double-stacked arches and tall columns of fluted marble.

I stared down at the ampoule in his hand, the little glass vial and the sealed blue plastic top.

Thornier sucked in a slow breath between his teeth, stared angrily at his employer for a moment, and seemed briefly ready to unleash an angry blast.

Achamian simply stared in blank horror, an anguished pendulum slowly swinging to and fro, to and fro .

Yet I could feel his annoyingly cold stare upon me, surrounded by a face that displayed nothing but charm and cheer.

I remained awake, staring at the mysterious reach of the old prison that lay beyond the ninth stair, the dim white lights and anthracitic cell mouths.

No longer protected by anthropocentric gods and goddesses, reason gone flat in its happy capacity to explain away the Mystery, not yet delivered into the hands of the superconsciouswe stare out blankly into that dark and gloomy night, which will very shortly swallow us up as surely as it once spat us forth.

They all stared after it silently, seized by a sense of anticlimax, until Sean broke the spell.