Her frustration with him and his intransigence welled up and she was thinking of leaving, letting him lie in his own mess until the orderly arrived, when she noticed that his eyes were not simply closed but squeezed shut, like those of a child playing hide-and-seek.

NEWYORKER: The Visitor

On asking him to repeat the work, she noticed he was using his left hand rather than his right one.

BBC: Yaseen Ali Ege

When he had seen her in the center of the road he had thought for an instant she was a ghost, and there was a ghostly detached quality in the way she moved, her lips crimped in that twist of self-criticism he had noticed in the car, when she had slid in beside him.

NEWYORKER: Outage