Word: gaze
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...into the heart of the Alps, a quick glance at Armstrong?s face on July 17th during his first break for the lead was pretty compelling evidence. Sidling up beside Ullrich, Armstrong grimaced as if in pain, then moved just a bit past his adversary, turned and fixed his gaze on the German?s reflective sunglasses. For a full beat, the two men stared at one another...
When it comes to marriage, I'm like that kid in The Sixth Sense. Everywhere I look, I see wedded people. But when I gaze upon newlyweds, I don't see hearts and flowers; I see law firms banging out contracts in an effort to inoculate both husband and wife against the death of love and the inevitable pain, greed and bad behavior that follow. According to Arlene Dubin, a divorce lawyer in New York City and author of Prenups for Lovers, about 20% of marrying couples pursue prenuptial agreements, outlining everything from how assets should be divided in case...
...living presence. I say my prayers over and over. Long ago I promised not to pray any more for insubstantial things-a Red Sox win, for instance, even a crucial Red Sox win-but to reserve any entreaties for the truly important stuff. I reflect now, as I gaze at Caroline with a love deeper than that I experienced when she was born, that I've been doing a lot of asking in the last year, what with all these hospital visits. A lot of thanking, too-and never more fervently than...
...monogamous, he was every woman's dream husband, tonguing his wife's tonsils onstage and parading his gorgeous daughters for votes. He talked endlessly about his feelings, dabbled in New Age profundity, backed gay rights and spoke of his own existential crises. He was a man who would rather gaze at an Internet image of the rotating Earth than get in a rocket and fly to the moon...
...contractors will take on more parts of the health service, schools and post office. The old bureaucracies will be shaken up in other ways, to reduce "the strong culture of central direction in Whitehall." New elected mayors will raise the public's expectations about local services and shift its gaze away from Westminster. The powerful civil service will be overhauled to give less prominence to mandarins who devise policy and more to managers who can implement it. "Governments are often appalling on creativity," Mulgan says. Well, not always...