A glare is a facial expression showing disapproval, fierceness and/or hostility. In some cultures, glaring is considered offensive. A glare may be induced by anger or frustration.
Visually, a glaring person tends to have their eyes fixed and heavily focused on a subject. This can sometimes be considered synonymous to staring but, in most cases, staring is caused due to curiosity and lasts only for a short duration, whereas glaring is caused due to contempt and lasts for a relatively longer duration.
Uses and examples
Many people glare at a subject to express disapproval of the physical nature of the subject or ideas that may be expressed by the subject.
Glaring is often used as a simile, like: "Glaring like mad (Aristophanes), Glaring like two gaunt wolves with a famished brood (Mathilde Blind) ... [or] Glaring like a Lion in a cage (O. Henry)."[1] Glaring can be a metaphor, as used in Western esotericism terms, and is Hexagram 52.[2] "Glaring" is used in legal cases to mean blatant, obvious, "threatening", "dangerous", or knowingly,[3] or together in arguments as "glaring and shocking".[4]
Possibly the most common clichés for the past century using glare are "glaring falsehood" and "glaring absurdity",[5] and "glaring and shocking."[4]
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