For that brief moment of exultation, we get to be Matt Dillon, quietly exultant as we gaze into the distance.
Anyway, why gaze into the crystal ball when history is so clear?
As a young boy, he would gaze into the clouds and suddenly find a human face or familiar shape sketched into the cumulus.
He had a great deal to say, with a steady gaze into my eyes, about my reading the New York Post, which he interpreted as a sign of a highly satiric yet demotically moral intelligence.
The empty gaze of the old into the distance is mirrored in the gaze of the young into slot machines.
In Gough Square, in front of Samuel Johnson's tall and staring house, I stopped for a while to watch a workman digging up a drain, taking the opportunity to gaze down into the rich strata that lay beneath the London pavement.
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He met my gaze for a second, then disappeared into the crowd.
But just then a group of men stormed into the room and their gaze fell on a different cadaver, it was someone they knew.
We can see water cascading into the footprints of the Twin Towers, and gaze up at a new tower rising above the New York skyline.
And now, when jazz has split into diffident camps divided over whether the music should gaze back or peer forward, the retrofuturism of "Mingus Ah Um" remains an essential guide for how old and new can be reconciled.
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"This is pretty spectacular, " he said, craning his neck to gaze up at the rock faces after emerging from a narrow pathway into a sun-splashed plaza in front of the grand Treasury.
The woman appears to have once held a flower in her right hand, until the painter began to rework it into a fan indicated by a blur of white paint and the upward gaze of her child.
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