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The new show retains the original’s Warholian purity of inaction and its languid tension: nothing much happens, and it is not happening at a soothing pace, under a glazy gaze.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 17, 2019

"It was such a great place to live," she says, with a glazy gaze out her Manhattan window.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again he got into a frightful state at the glazy appearance of his skin—it was an oil painting.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Furniss, Harry

He had straggling gray hair, bleared eyes with an opaque, glazy look and a bluish cast of countenance.

From The Day of the Beast by Grey, Zane

Then, beside these gorgeous fruits, in multitudinous attendance, a confused array of scarlet runners, tomatoes, cabbages, out-tumbled sacks of glazy purple aubergines, mysterious-looking gigantic pumpkins, buckets full of pyramidal maize-cobs, yellow, white-sheathed.

From A Tramp's Sketches by Graham, Stephen