The phrase
"vacant stare" refers to the blank, empty look that someone's eyes have when they are not focusing or showing any emotion or thought.
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Yet despite his otherwise impressive track record, Price has been the subject of exactly two museum surveys, in 1992 and 2004, and mention of his name tends to
elicit vacant stares or tentative guesses at his
Signs of drowsiness include slowed movements, droopy eyelids and
vacant stares.
Socially withdrawn, timid, depressed, social wariness, inhibited,
vacant stares, lack of curiosity, excessive fantasies, poor peer relationships, fear of a particular person, excessive fears, attempted suicide, excessive fear of punishment, feels deserving of punishment.
She had it all down pat — the burb cloth over the shoulder,
the vacant stare at the TV... My husband was equally supportive — just assumed this is how it should be.
Vigilant eyes, scanning the periphery through a rear view mirror, reflect both
the vacant stare of Travis Bickle and the cold malevolence of the Terminator.
Georges (Jean - Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), a French couple in their still - vital early 80s, are at their cozily cramped little breakfast table, and just as Georges is about to crack open his soft - boiled egg, he sees that Anne is sitting there with
a vacant stare, registering nothing.
Zombies, those lurching creatures with
the vacant stare, finally get to share the big screen with a Hollywood A-lister in World War Z.
From his early shadowy appearances (a clear homage to Apocalypse Now), he perfects
the vacant stare of a man who has snapped.
He relies simply on a cold and
vacant stare, seeming to have resigned himself to merely being.
But the Sentra's styling is
a vacant stare.
They may seem to have
a vacant stare off into space.
Owners should keep an eye on the dog for signs of over-exertion, like excessive panting, bleeding pads,
vacant stares, pale lips or face.
These now - classic half - staged, half - spontaneous shots are a visual tone poem of WASP privilege and icy repression — a hot mess of sunburned boredom, simpering awkwardness, and
vacant stares.
The implication behind
her vacant stare and accompanying mundane objects is that the voyeuristic gaze can only ever train itself on the subject's surface, never really knowing what is going on inside.
The painting features an enormous phantom with
a vacant stare and stoic expression sitting on a throne.
c) convince people
your vacant stare is thoughtful?