distant look in someone's eye

:  separated in space :  away

:  situated at a great distance (see ¹distance 2c) :  far-off

:  having a great amount of separation between each other :  separated by a great distance from each other :  far apart

:  to make sure or take care (that something is done)

:  to ascertain by the use of one's eyes

:  to exercise the power of vision upon :  examine

:  the act of looking

:  glance

:  the expression of the countenance

:  some person :  somebody

:  a specialized light-sensitive sensory structure of animals that in nearly all vertebrates, most arthropods, and some mollusks is the image-forming organ of sight

:  the nearly spherical usually paired hollow organ of sight in vertebrates that is filled with a jellylike material, is lined with a photosensitive retina, and is lodged in a bony orbit in the skull

:  all the visible structures within and surrounding the orbit and including eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows

:  to fix the eyes on :  look at

:  contemplate, consider

:  to watch or study closely