Word: gazing
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...Wedding,” the small basket christened with dimes and pennies by a few kind friends, and assume our positions. Grainne and Angela settle on the concrete blocks just outside the pit and I stand on the ground in front of them. I struggle to replicate the expressionless gaze I so admire in the Square’s bride and angel living statues. I stare straight ahead and try not to smile, not to make eye contact with the countless cruel passersby who ignore us or—even worse—approach us and then reconsider. One woman...
...local media proclaimed a return to normality, Gucheng was being paralyzed by the most violent riots yet to hit this relatively prosperous village of pomelo farmers. By the time we arrived on Thursday afternoon, citizens were still milling around the village's Communist Party headquarters under the watchful gaze of police. The uprisings had begun on the night of May 3, when word leaked out that six potentially SARS-infected patients from out of town would be quarantined in the party building. Furious that they hadn't been consulted about a decision to isolate possibly contagious patients in a makeshift...
...personalities on that team were certainly rich and a reason to love playing, but watching Mager gaze at the field yesterday, you could tell he also appreciated the raw moments of possibility themselves, personalities aside. There had been other moments in the mist for him—a win from seven runs down against Brown in the rain at O’Donnell Field that was as or more improbable than a Frank Herrmann three-run homer would have been yesterday...
Yamaguchi instructed Zoninsein to look ahead intently. The train would recall where she had been and her gaze would point to where she was going...
Rocking in their line of folding chairs, the directors laugh at nearly every scene, sometimes hysterically. They clap eagerly at the end of songs, or in the middle. And often they will gaze at their cast with a mixture of pride, gratitude...