• The central pairing sounds full of promise, but, with Galifianakis gazing blearily upon the world like a dopey, less explosive John Belushi, and Downey bristling with nervous frustration beside him, the movie is in dire need of a straight man.

    NEWYORKER: Due Date

  • Walking past the busts of notable scholars, each with solemn visage gazing out from the distant past, I pass shelf after shelf crammed with learning.

    BBC: A literary pilgrimage through the streets of Dublin

  • He whirls her from one fancy location to the next, living on the slim proceeds of their success and gazing with avuncular disdain upon her incessant amours.

    NEWYORKER: Girl on the Bridge

  • Some of them were gazing with dull avarice at the store on the other side of the road, the Ideal Traders Ice Cream Parlor, where fat kids in T-shirts were licking vanilla cones.

    NEWYORKER: The Elephant

  • The cumulative effect of the camera work, music, costumes and editing is one of exhilaration, a zest for life at odds with the navel-gazing that marred so many films of the New Wave.

    WSJ: Jules and Jim | For the Love of a Fickle Woman | Masterpiece by Peter Cowie

  • Among Mexico's intelligentsia, with its navel-gazing tendency to bemoan the malign influence of the United States on every facet of Mexican life, Mr Aguilar Zinser stood out as an internationalist and an enthusiast for democracy in an almost American mode.

    ECONOMIST: Obituary

  • Minutes later, the officer saw Craig gazing into his stall through the crack between the stall door and the frame, fidgeted with his fingers and returned to gazing through the stall for about another two minutes, the documents state.

    NPR: Sen. Craig Says He Did Nothing Inappropriate

  • The news the USPS will stop delivering mail on saturdays has prompted some post office navel gazing, and with it has come a claim I have seen made before: that the U.S. Postal Service is the most efficient in the world.

    FORBES: Is The U.S. Postal Service The World's Most Efficient?

  • Gazing at this human figure with wings, perched on the edge of a boat, I imagined her taking flight each night after the Louvre closed.

    BBC: The bloom of cancer

  • Outside Wirathu's office at the New Ma Soe Yein monastery hangs a large poster of him gazing heavenward next to a dove with an olive branch in its beak.

    NPR: PORTRAITS: New Numerology Of Hate Grows In Myanmar

  • With Europe's populations weary of the constitutional navel-gazing and foreign policy grandstanding which seems to preoccupy their leaders so often, the Barcelona meeting is a chance to demonstrate their concern with bread-and-butter issues like jobs.

    CNN: European leaders

  • If you flip the phone over, and remain gazing at the derriere, you'll be greeted with the familiar beats logo.

    ENGADGET: Windows Phone 8S by HTC hands-on: a bright Windows phone that holds promise (video)

  • The island is exceptionally situated for star gazing and is participating in the Starlight Initiative in partnership with the MAB Urban Futures Programme.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • For he would see the graces of them all, and would be pleased in heart gazing at the well-girded women and the men with their swift ships and great renown.

    WSJ: 'Aladdin's Lamp'

  • There is plenty of opportunity for scenery gazing on the 2.5 hour journey From Montmorency Falls to Baie St Paul, with the leg to La Malbaie running a further 75 minutes.

    BBC: A theatrical journey into Canada��s Charlevoix

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