avert one's eyes , także: avert one's gaze

"To be an artist," he once said, "means never to avert one's eyes."

As for averting one's eyes - perhaps you've heard the phrase "cannot be unseen"?

But where is the piety in reading the Bible while averting one's eyes from genocide?

What is gained, therefore, by averting one's eyes against the sight, or giving way to rage or horror?

Yet nothing that Mr. Lesy describes makes one avert one's eyes.

Averting one's eyes to miss the props and contrived dance steps did not really help; the stage business took a toll on the music making.

Being a true artist means never averting one's eyes, he remembered Crumb writing, though he was pretty sure the quote had originated elsewhere.

Ms. Dee is the personification of star; it is not possible to avert one's eyes when she is on the sidelines, reacting.

During many of the New Jersey League of Municipalities' annual conferences here, there are moments that feel like a collective exercise in averting one's eyes.

"LunkheadOverThere" and "BarrelRibs" was a way of referring to a dominant slave master while deferentially averting one's eyes.

Maybe the brisk trade in lurid violence as spectacle has something to do with it: one either watches or averts one's eyes; dispassionate reflection rarely enters into it.

In this city, where averting one's eyes on the subway is considered good form and gawking at celebrities bad form, there is an overwhelming amount of visual information to process.

Thus, Game 5 - scoreless until Mike Modano's goal, yet impossible to avert one's eyes from - produced a 4.2 Nielsen rating, the best of ABC's three games.

Though we don't know all the facts of the Wal-Mart case, it is unquestionably negligent to avert one's eyes from suspected abuse or to try to ascertain the truth from a photograph.

Averting one's eyes from these grandiose monuments, one may discover an equally beautiful destination, although on a smaller scale - Deene Park, near Corby, home of the Brudenell family since 1514.

One almost has to avert one's eyes from the chronicle of carnage: the warrior with a hewn neck bone, hot blood flooding down his eyes; a skewered skull, mouth gaping, blowing convulsive sprays of blood; bodies torn asunder in tender, vulnerable spots - navel, groin, throat.

The United States had no choice, under the mandates of the Monroe Doctrine, but to eradicate Communist activity wherever it turned up in Latin America by any means necessary, even if it meant averting one's eyes from dictatorial regimes whose police force did everything but wear badges saying Chronic Wrongdoing.