Word: behold
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...huge poster in my office of Sawyer on “Lost” reading a Walker Percy novel, which I read in Coles' class, "Moral and Social Inquiry." The themes of that class permeated deeply into my writer’s brain. I took physics, and lo and behold, there’s a lot of physics in “Lost.” I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it’s been a chance to apply the things I’ve learned more directly. I also...
...Mona Lisa,” placing special emphasis on the lady’s uncanny simper. “And in this work of Leonardo’s there was a smile so pleasing, that it was a thing more divine than human to behold; and it was held to be something marvelous, since the reality was not more alive,” he wrote. The sublime expression of “La Joconde” has held sway over its viewers since its creation, a testament to its creator’s artistry, a manifestation of the fantastic...
...have a great internal rhyme scheme—“The face that you saw in the door isn’t looking at you anymore / The name that you call in its place isn’t waiting for your embrace / The world that you love to behold cannot hold you anymore”—and the simple image of walking in the park to forget your heartbreak manages to remain powerful...