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• n  a fixed look with eyes open wide
• v  look at with fixed eyes
  The students stared at the teacher with amazement
• v  fixate one's eyes

• No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin's.
• We'd go to the movies and everybody would stare at us on the line.
• The thing is in our forgotten history and our chromosomes, which may explain why people stare at the ocean with such sweet, vacant yearnings.

• gaze

News & Articles

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• Hundreds ride naked on night of new moon
  Some looked away while others couldn't help but stare as World Naked Bike Ride bicyclists swarmed the streets of Portland late Saturday night.
  June 12, 2013 - 14 WFIE Evansville
• Beauty queen with one arm crowned Miss Iowa
  Nicole Kelly said she found she "could tell people it was acceptable to stare"
  June 11, 2013 - CBS News
• Richard M. Berlin, MD
  Before I knew much psychiatry I met his angry stare in the ER, a homeless man with a three day beard... We climbed concrete ramps from the subway’s underground world, up to the grandstand and my first vision of heaven...
  June 10, 2013 - Psychiatric Times

Quotes

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• Elizabeth Edwards in Washington Post
  You're not going to outsmart him. He works harder than any human being that I know, always has,Elizabeth Edwards says. "It's unbelievably important that, in our president, we have someone who can stare the worst in the face and not blink."
• Robert Cheruiyot in International Herald Tribune
  When the lion is chasing the antelope, he doesn't look back. He has to eat,Cheruiyot said. "So when I run, I don't stare at my time."
• John Roberts in Washington Post
  Today, under questioning by Sen. Arlen Specter, a moderate Republican who supports abortion rights, Roberts said: "It's settled as a precedent of the court, entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis."