Peter Singer

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.

Australian Philosopher

Marshall Herskovitz

Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.

American Director

Jerry Saltz

I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.

American Critic

Mike Cernovich

Gawker started out speaking the truth to power, and then it became about bullying anyone who didn't conform to their social justice orthodoxy. They wanted to inflict pain on people with no platform simply for the sake of inflicting pain.

American Writer

Meg Cabot

I love jezebel.com for the latest on fashion, style, and celebrity gossip. I also love gawker.com for New York celebrity sightings, and galleycat.com and trashionista.com for book news.

American Author

S.E. Cupp

Gawking at one-time celebrities who, for whatever reason, end up performing jobs our culture deems a mark of failure is gross, but hardly a new thing.

American Journalist

Ben Domenech

Gawker was a site built to destroy lives. Its mission was to discover the worst moment in a person's life - and then publicize it for profit.

Gregg Wallace

I don't feel comfortable sitting by a pool with other British people who may just gawk and take photographs of me.

English Celebrity

Matt Lanter

A lot of people might gawk at it, but I really love 'Revenge of the Sith' because of what happens to Anakin.

American Actor

Ann Robinson

I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.

American Actress

Using 'gawk' implies rudeness or poor manners, as staring at someone can be invasive.

Rudeness Risk

'Gawk' is often used when someone is so surprised or shocked that they stare without realizing.

Astonishment Context

In many cultures, gawking is considered disrespectful and should be avoided.

Cultural Sensitivity

 like that that just pulls you out of context so dramatically and as Tom Robin says it forces you to gawk in amazement at the ubiquitous everyday wonders you're culturally disposed to ignore it's like you know or can you can you repeat the sentence but yeah no but I think that those experiences they they

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 we ripped her apart, we did all the work ourselves. It was the first time that anyone had ever seen women in a shipyard, so that was quite entertaining. Every morning when we would walk in, everyone would just gawk at us. But it also had its advantages, because everyone was so helpful.

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 importantly he made us care scientists credit cousteau with jolting the public into action for generations of scientists conservationists but also millions of regular people including me and my brothers gawking at the television in our living

Gawk

Stare openly and stupidly.

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