Word: stared
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...realized this, of course, once I was back at my desk at school, looking at the to-do lists I had left myself. Turn that calendar page to January, and all the due dates stare at you coldly: term paper here, writing exercise here, final here. The clock is ticking, so I know it's time to buckle down and spend the days reading, writing and researching, without the benefits of parent-powered laundry services...
...when he was in town, was not always so sanguine and accepting about the things he could not control. He was especially bothered by the protesters and supporters who had lined the sidewalk across the street from the mansion. He would jump up and go to the window to stare at the demonstrators and complain about the noise they were making...
...urge the Harvard's Faculty to change these recommendations at today's Faculty meeting. Library fines are meant to keep students prompt in returning books and allowing others to use them; the uniform loan period will surely help students keep all these dates straight as they stare at their bookshelves. However, the decision to double the fines, for whatever reason, is a poor one. Students are notoriously short on money, and students are careless, not malicious, in keeping a book past its due date...
...more than stare at his exotic subjects. He appropriated their spirit. He went along collecting strange artifacts-he once photographed himself in Algerian costume. The entrance to the exhibit showcases a series of self-portraits in which a fully clothed Day is shown on a dark field, with a faint nude black man in the background. Day seems to be audaciously claiming the "foreign" spirit...
...next week, of course, I really can't afford to stare at anything other than the blank spaces on my screen where words are supposed to be for the thesis I should be writing. But I've used excuses like that a lot over the past four years, and soon, they won't work anymore. I'll have to account for what I choose to spend my time staring at. And when I see terrible things like the ones halfway across the world, I'll have to stop and think about what I spend my time staring at. Then...