thousand-yard stare , auch: two-thousand-yard stare

Tyson looked into each man's eyes as he passed and saw that too many of them had developed the Thousand-Yard Stare.

Prison fatigues and thousand-yard stares through prison bars follow.

A few thoughtful thousand-yard stares.

Some had scars, some had empty sleeves, some had vacant thousand-yard stares.

Eyes like Mickey Finn had the night he walked in: what grunts call the Thousand-Yard Stare.

Crisp parade-ground moves, gleaming boots smashing into the blacktop, eyes rigidly to the front, thousand-yard stares, all quite bizarre in the green stillness of a suburban driveway.

Standing with slouched shoulders and thousand-yard stares while waiting for a trophy presentation, the Wallabies heard Springboks captain Jean De Villiers interviewed over the PA.

If Westerners are stereotyped as rugged individualists — Marlboro men with high-country wind burns and thousand-yard stares — the new art movement is about collaboration and the melding of cultures.

There were soldiers and police with machine guns, teenage boys with thousand-yard stares, presumably from their years as child soldiers in the war, malnourished children with muddy rags and white hair like little old men.