navel-gazing

Definitions

Examples

• But whereas we used to be satisfied gazing on that perfection as it stood up on a pedestal, now we want it down among us.

• Such large sheets are common in Kobani, meant to protect fighters and civilians from the ever gazing eyes of ISIS snipers.

• Johnson kept doing all he could, gazing down at those eyes that gazed right back at him with a seemingly stunned look.

• “Me neither,” Lohse says, gazing pityingly at his own navel.

• Or gazing towards the Bible stories, saints and martyrs depicted in the arched stained glass windows.

• The Alcalde was kneeling by his side, gazing sadly and earnestly into the face of the dying man.

• He was holding his big head high in the air, like a giraffe, and gazing proudly about him as he ran.

• Bernard folded his hands together—almost devoutly—and stood gazing at her with a long, inarticulate murmur of satisfaction.

• Yet when I stop gazing the next impulse is to move on; for if I have time to rest anywhere, why not at home?

• "I believe that is what they call it," Gordon answered, gazing back at her with his densely clouded blue eyes.