Word: oeil
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...still lifes were the work of the university's artist in residence, Aaron Bohrod. With them Artist Bohrod, 47, emerges as one of the foremost exponents of Trompe-l'Oeil (fool-the-eye) painting in the U.S. since the 19th century...
...trees. His ruler-drawn interior, Vista from Within, suggests the antiseptic foyer of a brand-new medical building. Fransioli's neatness and light reminded proper Bostonians of their childhood, and Down East ladies cooed over familiar Maine scenes while they fingered Artist Fransioli's trompe-l'oeil detail...
...recent gathering of the clergy of Toulouse, peppery, 83-year-old Cardinal Saliège pointed a blunt finger at a group of young priests sitting in the back of the room. "Nous vous avons à l'oeil, mes gaillards [We're keeping an eye on you, my lads]!" he warned them...
From these speculations to the fear of civil war was only a step. Would this fear abate, now that the Indo-China crisis was past? Perhaps the only ones who knew were an old Black Sea mutineer and a man called "L'oeil de Moscou...
...irritated, for example, at being obliged to swallow sentences as obscurely pregnant as the following: "In a sense, the noblesse de ĺépée was almost innocent compared with the noblesse de la robe. For the court nobility was at least true to form; the intriguers of oeil-de-boeuf were the spiritual as well as the fleshly heirs of the frivolous leaders of the Fronde...