Many evenings she would stare at him hoping to see him get bigger.

NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast

We stare at him, not comprehending.

NEWYORKER: Ask Me If I Care

At the sidewalk he stopped, put down his case next to the sugar maple, wiped his jacket sleeve across his forehead, and gazed up the block as if he were the new boy in school, getting ready to cross the school yard, where faces were already turning to stare at him.

NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish

Born in Bordeaux, Redon later described himself as a "sad and weak" child, though the resulting isolation and inactivity left him with much time to stare at clouds and nurture the stunning imagination that seemingly grew in him as a muscle.

WSJ: Gary Geipel: The Late Blooming of Odilon Redon

For the first few seconds he can only stare at the impossibility blooming before him, and it is at this moment that he recalls one of his earliest lessons, a lesson learned in the prehistory of his youth, when he was still called David Henry, when he still bore his given names so ordered to honor the paternal uncle he would never meet.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Woodsburner'

He looks at Albert with the disdainful stare that the pukka sahib directs at a servant who has inconvenienced him.

NEWYORKER: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

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.

WSJ: Dan Neil on the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Van Gogh Up Close