It inspired the phrase “thousand yard stare,” which references a blank stare that usually results from a form of traumatization. The Thomas Lea painting was first featured in LIFE Magazine in ...

Kurt Angle's intense stare has become a viral meme ... Separate occasions, equally as funny. With that in mind, Angle will almost certainly see the funny side of becoming a meme.

And the haunted look in his eyes reminded me of what soldiers in Vietnam used to call the thousand-yard stare–the paralytic ... jokes didn’t seem quite so funny this time; a man had been ...

One commander she spoke with said his guys were starting to develop that thousand-yard stare. That's war lingo "for dead in the eyes" — for people who have seen too much and have little stomach ...

Minneapolis police officers Dustin Schwarze and Mark Ringgenberg described the unarmed Jamar Clark as having a “thousand yard stare” and “this really weird stare,” respectively ...