Word: stared
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...stage's curtain provided my first impression of the show: lavish, but schlocky. Here was a beautifully rendered map of East Africa, emblazoned with the show's title--and a bevy of advertisements. Not too attractive, and unfortunately I had to stare at it during the whole overture...
This is only the beginning: over the next few years Treasury plans to redesign every note except the $1 bill. If blown-up portraits of Lincoln and Hamilton stare out at us the way Franklin's does, the changes will require a significant psychological adjustment even on the part of Americans...
...besides, with the class in a smaller, secluded space Chen said, "no one will stare or embarrass anyone...
...Earth constricts. We imagine ourselves to be prisoners in solitary confinement, tapping crude coded messages on the dungeon wall and hoping for an answering tap--without which we stare at the queasy possibility that we are truly, absolutely alone. Such an abyss 1) may be infinitely more depressing than the assumption of human inferiority or 2) may argue, conversely, for the divine uniqueness and therefore preciousness of the human enterprise. An agnostic will split the difference and think of Voltaire: "Remember your dignity...
...unclasp his hands. There's not a chance he'll loosen his tie. He is devoutly unglib, though a fluid speaker who uses no notes. However remote he may seem from their life and experiences, people say he seems honest and authentic, someone who doesn't stare over your shoulder when he's talking to see who has come into the room. "You ask him a question, and he doesn't build you a watch, he answers it," says Dr. Charles Kalil, 82, a semiretired Phoenix, Arizona, physician. "It's refreshing to talk to a politician who doesn...