outstare

He says, the nuts drop in the pool: the Salmon there is the wisest of all creatures, old and wise who equally can hope and fear outstare with the cold focus of unblinking eyes: this, from the ancient legendary I share simply by breathing in the drifting air near the swift waters of a mountain glen, and with it, knowledge also, of the kind that jingles in the pocket of the mind but has the smallest currency with men (Those Swans Remember: A Poem, 1956).

Rival cats will often try to outstare each other when there is a territorial conflict.

The green eyes of a figure in a blue burkha outstare the viewer in rage and fear.

He would try to outstare anyone who glanced his way and never uttered a word.

To "outstare the Gorgon" (2), Fumagalli contends, we need a different sense of modernity--one attuned to the possibility of "accepting and embracing difference without turning it into 'otherness'" (52).

The Texan writer-director opens with a short prologue, Episode Zero - The Blinkers, in which a brother (Westmoreland) and sister (Webb) try to outstare one another with comical repercussions.

The Texas-born writer-director opens with a short prologue entitled Episode Zero - The Blinkers, in which a brother (Westmoreland) and sister (Webb) attempt to outstare one another with comical repercussions.

Breakfasting on our veranda the following morning, the cows barely gave us a glance, and we were too busy admiring the view to outstare them anyway.

This is a fact that a nuclear Pakistan cannot accept bullying from India, and New Delhi needs not to outstare Islamabad.

There are those who stem the turbulent current for bubble fame, or who bridge the yawning chasm with a leap for the leap's sake or who 'outstare the sternest eyes that look outbrave the heart most daring on the earth, pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey' to win a fair lady and these are the admiration of the generality of men; but they are made of sterner stuff than the ordinary man upon whom the law places no duty of emulation.