Even among such intimates, boundaries are observed, for fear of crossing an unseen line and triggering a stare of blank, silent rebuke.
There were four of us: working press from all over the globe suddenly possessing the wide-eyed stare of excited children, with a glorious invitation to the pristine fairways of Augusta National -- living out our fantasies of actually playing the course.
Alternatively, take the "stare" out of a screen by balancing it with strong visuals that deflect attention.
On February 22, 2013, Frederic Mishkin, Peter Hooper, James Hamilton and David Greenlaw published Crunch Time: Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy, an 86-page paper that predicts the Fed will stare down the barrel of a few hundred billion dollars of losses when interest rates rise.
The two men stare across the bench seat of a burgundy Cadillac Seville.
Tell the bed not to lay like the mouth of a grave, not to stare up at me like some calf on its knees.
In fact, there are a number, well three, of reasons why Pandora might be able to stare down Apple if it indeed is launching a streaming radio service that will presumably be the default option on its mobile devices.
The show started with a demonstration of a "seed" moment for jookin', the "gangsta walk, " a stride full of accentuation and attitude, somewhere between a fashion-runway walk and a stare-down.
The result was a collective is-he-joking stare from the rest of the table, as if I'd said Nickelback was my favorite band.
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"It was a totally expressionless, blank stare, " said Larry Whicher, one of the victims, whose brother, Alan, 40, an agent with the U.S. Secret Service.
Sociologist Clifford Nass of Stanford University has found that people who stare at a device take a while to refocus.
When people tell Macbook users that they could get a great Windows laptop for half the price, they just sort of stare at them.
One of my many office habits is to stop and stare at a hallway wall leading to an elegant marble staircase.
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To calm the masons' nerves, Brunelleschi built a balcony of hanging scaffolding, so the men wouldn't have to stare down at the ground 80 meters below.
One day, he mounted a rearview mirror on the far wall of the classroom so that he could stare at the portrait of Milton behind his back.
In that winter, the turn of the 1930s, a couple of young men with time on their hands was nothing to draw a stare.
And we think of it, because of them, with a confidence knowing that ordinary citizens will continue to stare down fear, overwhelm evil, and bring forth hope from what seems to be none.
As Cecchi took us down a flight of rickety steps into his sweltering basement workshop, it was hard not to stare at his rough hands.
People do stare when, instead of slapping your card on the reader, you slam down a chunky bangle only to see the gates to the underground spring open.
In scenes where we stare out at what I presume to be the back side of Anor Londo (a portion of the city we see but never visit in Dark Souls) the sky is the same color as the perpetual sunset over Anor Londo in the first game.
It diminishes Van Gogh a little to imagine him rushing out with his easel to stare furiously, almost comically, at some clumps of grass, trying to silence the demons in his head.
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Two man-sized llamas - one brown called Louis, one white called Rupert - unnervingly stare me out as I wander past a Gloucester Old Spot pig snuffling among the apples at the base of a tree.
When having a casual chat with someone wearing Glass, it can take effort to not stare directly at the shiny gadget instead of into the person's eyes.
Those rejected candidates now stare forlornly from old campaign posters on the streets of Lille - but their ideas remain very much a part of French business culture.
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Therefore, when my staff visits, we will most likely stare at each other in a desperate attempt to find some justification for wasting your time and paying the salary of the IRS employee.
We stare up at the stars and dream of reaching them, but few people look off the side of a boat and wish they could go down there.
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