Word: gazing
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Senator Mitchell's hearing will be a show trial if ever there was one, and that is disturbing. I am not of the belief that the committee should demand that he proffer a catalogue of his future votes. The very suggestion that a would-be justice should gaze into his jurisprudential crystal ball and render all future verdicts is laughable. Still, the committee's critical orientation must not be abandoned, as I am afraid it will be in this case...
With a blank gaze in her eyes and a ghostly expression, Meryl Streep, who studied psychics for her role as Clara is a spiritual but uninspired clairvoyant. Glenn Close is slightly more intriguing as Ferula, Esteban's repressed older sister, whose relationships with Clara develops lesbian undertones...
...same gig as 15 years ago. I have the coolest job of anyone I know." On the new album that joy comes through in its most splendid form in You, a moving declaration of love. In Raitt's poignant voice you can hear the ache of angels as they gaze down on a dark and tangled earth...
Could it have happened this way? It is dusk at the Supreme Court chambers. Portraits of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Felix Frankfurter gaze from the walls. A 54-year-old Justice from a rural white state cues up the official Supreme Court CD player, and we hear . . . Luther Campbell's bawdy, silly rap parody of the Roy Orbison classic, Oh, Pretty Woman: "Big hairy woman, you need to shave that stuff/ Big hairy woman, you know I bet it's tough/ Big hairy woman, all that hair ain't legit/ 'cause you look like 'Cousin It.' " Slowly, almost imperceptibly...
...there are plenty of places in Framing the Margins itself where it is both clarifies and illuminates. In his analysis of Cities of the Interior, for example, he investigates Nin's strategies of describing desire. This investigation leads into a further investigation of the power of the masculine gaze in defining female sexuality both in other media (primarily cinema) and in the contemporary public sphere...