So the thing is that I found the next sentence:

> 目を合わせて逸らさない、というのはそれだけで真摯に見える。

I understand the whole sentence and all, but that 「目を合わせて逸らさない」is troubling
me.

I asked what it meant, and it was something like "To make eye contact and not
look away", but then, does the tense of the last verb not affect the former
one?

Maybe is it some kind of expression?
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A question about 目を合わせる
If you're asking if the negative form of the verb 逸らす would also affect 合わせる,
it would not. "To make eye contact and not look away" is correct. If you want
both to be negative, you would have to say "合わせないで逸らさない" (although, it makes
no sense in this context).
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