If you want to know what glazed-over eyes look like, ask any of these people about public awareness.

Distinguishing features: A glazed-over look whenever the arts are being discussed.

A silent cry seems to rise from the glazed-over audience: "Save me."

"Today we look at them with the glazed-over interest that we apply to all celebrities."

In most situations, preventing that glazed-over look comes from knowing when and where your worldly knowledge is wanted.

I peered out of my glazed-over cage as the stars' flickering began to slow.

The fact that its accompaniment is loud and taped gives it a glazed-over quality.

His face was pallid and his eyes were glazed-over.

They all have that same glazed-over look as people giving testimonials on late-night infomercials.

Selim looked at the gathered researchers, with their troubled expressions and distant, glazed-over eyes.

He must have seen the glazed-over look in my eyes when I lamented the lack of anything read besides Granma.

They cry in frustration, or shut down completely -- detention center eyes, glazed-over, expressionless.

The phrase alone elicits a glazed-over look by many, while others snicker at the oxymoronic possibilities.

Marc Tyler didn't glare with glazed-over eyes.

His eyes were always glazed-over, even at important committee hearings and during vital votes on the floor of the House of Representatives.

With a sad, glazed-over look in his eyes, he rouses himself and gathers up his man-bag.

He walked off the course at the Atlanta Athletic Club with his head held high; more telling was the glazed-over look in his eyes.

However, the euphemistically glazed-over descriptions are now codified and generally known, so that the original cryptic intent is no longer served.

It is 90 percent unwatchable handheld-camera footage of glazed-over tour bus conversations and toilet gags.

He stared down at her, his glazed-over eyes telling her that he hadnt been consciously aware of what hed done.

(He does spare some knife-in-the-heart insights, though, for the glazed-over women who wearily mop up the blood after their men.)

These glazed-over eyes, of course, are "only anecdotal evidence," another mess of wordage that's highly fashionable with the big-talk crowd these days.

It consists of more than 100 square and rectangular tiles of irregular size, in glazed-over shades of blue, green, copper and silver.

By the time he had passed behind and beyond the onrush-ing armada, Proconsul's entire aft end had been turned into a glazed-over hunk of slag.

"You often get a really glazed-over, blank stare from the waitress when you start explaining why you need specific ingredient information," Mrs. Osman said.