2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde, So in time Mother learned to perceive me through the mirror. Even to smile at me. (Not eye-to-eye! Never.)
2002, James D. Truax, The Cake-Eater Conspiracy, There seemed to be a tacit understanding that the prisoners and the unit supervisor should not look at one another...at least not eye-to-eye.
2005, Emily Schultz, Michael Moore: a biography, But it does find these two adversaries speaking face to face, if not eye to eye, about the kinds of labor issues that don't often make it to the multiplex.