gaze

Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell.

She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.