"Charley," said the boy, standing still to gaze at us.
"Out a-washing," said the boy, beginning to walk up and down again and taking the nankeen bonnet much too near the bedstead by trying to gaze at us at the same time.
They talk to us and
gaze at us as if they are communicating thoughts or ideas.
People also
gaze at us with doubtful eyes, if God forbid, we have done something wrong to them.
Lifting their heads curiously as we approach, the calm creatures
gaze at us wide-eyed and wide-mouthed.
It makes sense for the sculptures to be bones, for they suggest what it is that Comte's eyespots might see when they unblinkingly
gaze at us with such fascination--X-rayed forms in an X-rayed space, moving skeletons curtained with diaphanous meat and carrying executive toys.
As we modeled his designs that night, he would
gaze at us and we could tell how he truly appreciated his life's work and the friendships he had nurtured with his models from across generations.
But in the last section of "Manhattan reef," subject and object have traded places: the works study us,
gaze at us. In a short poem called "Vermeer," the paintings "change me," or so the speaker asserts: any activity is theirs, while he remains passive.
They
gaze at us intently with Christ's right hand resting on Mena's right shoulder.
Suddenly they were there, rising to the surface to
gaze at us.
