To keep a steady gaze, the film suggests, is not just a virtue but a form of orderly protest, when your world is breaking apart.

NEWYORKER: The Time That Remains

Her gravity and her steady gaze make her a fine heroine.

NEWYORKER: Kids at Risk

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.

NEWYORKER: The Region of Unlikeness

She fixed the tutors, while they were talking, with a steady, critical, attentive gaze.

NEWYORKER: She��s the One

With her gaze clear and steady.

NEWYORKER: Good People

Connie fixed Seth with her steady, we-have-nothing-in-common gaze.

NEWYORKER: Good Neighbors