1.   Brittany, the blond cheerleader, has a vacant stare and huge eyelashes.

2.   Another vacant stare.

3.   A hero of the freedom movement marches still, but only across clean, quiet grounds, through hallways of vacant stares and dreamy, narcotic smiles.

4.   A toothless smile had replaced the vacant stares and the darting glances.

5.   Dead boys with vacant stares being wheeled in carts to burial grounds in Somalia as matter-of-factly as people wheeling shopping carts in a grocery store.

6.   Each one draws a vacant stare.

7.   He never broke his vacant stare, but slowly nodded in acknowledgement.

8.   Her face bore the vacant stare described in earlier testimony by eight medical professionals.

9.   The camera is rarely off his clean-cut, baby face with its perpetual vacant stare.

10.   Their eyes, which for years held the vacant stare of POWs, are alive with possibilities.