Then deny? (55:50) In each of the two Gardens are two flowing springs. (55:49) Which of your Lord's favours will you twain â you men and jinn â Then deny? 42 (55:48) These Gardens will abound in green, blooming branches. 41 (55:47) Which of your Lord's favours will you twain â you men and jinn â (55:46) For any who fears to stand before his Lord 40 are two Gardens. In some cultures, conventions expect certain classes of people to keep their eyes averted downward for instance, when a person such as a servant stands before a master or someone of an upper class. More often, though, we associate “downcast eyes” with shyness or shame. Haughty, proud, maybe disdainful.ĭowncast eyes may also mean a feeling such as love or desire someone cannot readily admit to. But if you add to this a chin thrust upward, maybe eyebrows raised, you get a supercilious look. Commonly used in literature, it’s easy enough to describe: eyelids partially closed, gaze directed downward. You can read a world of meaning in downcast eyes. So that we say, ‘All this hath been before,Īll this hath been, I know not when or where ’ If one but speaks or hems or stirs his chair, And the shared feeling is strong that what’s between them has occurred before.Īs when with downcast eyes we muse and brood, But when the brooders meet each other’s gaze, something is shared, without words, and without full comprehension. Maybe, also a looking back in this case, into something vague, or nearly forgotten Something not understood, even enigmatic. “Downcast eyes,” in the first line of an early sonnet by Tennyson, refers to a state of introspection, a looking inward. In both cases, emotions infuse their thoughts. Like the heroine in WRS and the Tennyson sonnet quoted below, he’s musing. “This house we’ve been living in belongs to my father, not to me. He scowls thoughtfully for a minute, his eyes cast down. In this scene, one of the male characters in Sugar and Spice and All Those Lies is about to disclose some truths about himself. Maybe, she feels shame for those secrets or she’s exasperated with herself because she doesn’t remember much what that past is. She’s confronting secrets from her past, eighteen years after she flees her birthplace in the Pacific. Leilani’s gaze darted between Greg and Elise then, with downcast eyes and a tremulous voice, she said, “There was so much I was not allowed to see while I was growing up in my old country.” The heroine’s downcast eyes in Welcome Reluctant Stranger (Book 3, Between Two Worlds), tell you she’s deep in thought.
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