WordNet
v. avert one's gaze; "She looked away when the nurse pricked her arm with the needle"
Wikipedia
"Look Away" is a 1988 power ballad by American rock band Chicago. Written by Diane Warren, produced by Ron Nevison, and with Bill Champlin on lead vocals, it is the second single from the band's album Chicago 19. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in December 1988, matching the chart success of the group's " If You Leave Me Now" (1976) and " Hard to Say I'm Sorry" (1982). "Look Away" is Chicago's seventh song to have peaked at number one on the Adult Contemporary chart as well as the number one song on the 1989 year-end Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The song, unlike hits from early in Chicago's career, does not prominently feature horns. It is also the band's first number-one single following the departure of Peter Cetera, who left the group in 1985. The song was originally offered to the Swedish hard rock band Europe by Ron Nevison who was producing their album Out of This World at the time and thought that the album needed another ballad. The singer of the band, Joey Tempest didn't like the song and turned down the offer. The song was also offered to the American rock band Cheap Trick, but they also turned it down in favor of recording the song that would become their sole #1 hit, "The Flame".
"Look Away" is a song by Scottish rock band Big Country. It was released in April 1986 as the lead single from their third studio album, The Seer. It gave the group their fourth UK top 10 hit, and proved to be their highest charting single in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 7.
"Look Away" was an even bigger success in Ireland, topping the Irish Singles Chart for one week, and becoming the band's only number one single on either side of the Irish Sea.
Look Away may refer to:
- " Look Away", song by American rock band Chicago
- "Look Away" (Big Country song)
- " Look Away!", album by Doc and Merle Watson
- Look Away + 4, EP and its title song from Apples in Stereo
- Look Away (play), 1973 play by Jerome Kilty
- "Look Away" song by American artist Iggy Pop from his 1996 album Naughty Little Doggie
- "Look Away", a song by Hootie and the Blowfish from their 1994 album Cracked Rear View
Usage examples of "look away".
But instead, even when you're wearing your best smile and you've shampooed your hair and you think you're quite presentable, even pretty, they look away from you or through you, maybe because they're embarrassed for you, as if they believe that your disabilities are your fault and that you are—.
His dark gaze, solemn and intent, caught hers, and quite oddly she was unable to look away.
Yet he could not look away as a terrible wave of radiation lashed the Achuultani .
He would not look away, and neither did she, until at last Purcell came over and addressed the prince.
She very carefully kept her eyes averted from the man in a backless breechcloth and then had to look away again from a pubescent girl who was topless.
She felt her face growing hotter and wanted to look away, but she could not.
I heard laughter behind me and turned to see Patro and the other slave cover their mouths and look away.
Ross looked into those golden eyes and was lost for seconds until panic awoke in him, forcing him after sharp struggle to look away.