downcast

Now it’s time to turn their downcast eyes toward the expected payoff.

Dressed in a sari, with eyes downcast, she sits down on a wooden stool facing her interrogators.

Morrow, who sat with his eyes downcast throughout the hearing, had at first denied all the charges, but eventually admitted the blackmail.

It turns out that the dour, downcast approach of Republicans has a shelf-life, and it has reached its sell-by date.

But Mr. Trump himself, a candidate of unusual personality and sometimes impenetrable psyche, seemed to be willing himself forward, moving from downcast to defiant within a day.