askance

Interestingly, Asher has the opposite asymmetry as Zena, with his right eye being noticeably larger than his left. And he likes to look askance at things.

I just came across the following passage in the novel I am reading, More Die of Heartbreak, by my current favourite writer, Saul Bellow:

When he spoke of staring at the azalea, the twist of his gaze altered his entire face—again a physiognomic peculiarity of one of those passionate natures who long to find and to see what perhaps does not exist on earth. That’s how the Russian poet Blok once put it in a similar case. He also observed that in such persons one eye (usually the left) is smaller than the other. (The loops of the figure eight are not identical in size.) Such a hunger to see lasts all through life, up to the grave, perhaps beyond the grave. By such signs I understood that the Citizen of Eternity is not cut off from his inner sources.”