At one point in the proceedings, the harsh portrayal of Jackson's struggle with addiction led one juror to lean forward and stare at the floor for several moments.
While it is no more dangerous than looking at the sun (which itself is not a good idea), the relative dimness is likely to tempt people to stare at the eclipse for too long, damaging their eyes.
The Columbia River is punctuated by 14 huge dams that still generate electricity for the millions who live along its watershed, and as the region shifts to other sources of renewable energy, it's giving birth to new giants awe-inspiring structures that will stare down at us for centuries.
It was tennis to stare at, to cheer for, to rewind again and again.
Both are amazing screens, and we think you'd be content to sit and stare at either of them for hours on end.
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Look away from the screen about every 20 minutes and stare at a distant object for several seconds to relax your eye's focusing muscles.
But anyone who thought that there was going to be a slowdown in infrastructure build-out this year, as the government tries to engineer a soft landing to its spectacular economic growth, need only stare at the Shanghai skyline for a few days, if not just a few minutes.
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It was weird to meet people who didn't stare at me but accepted me for who I am.
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Most people step off that snow lift for the first time and stare down in awe at the sheer expanse of ice that awaits them.
The park attracts a lot of foot traffic, and the telescopes draw in curious passers-by to stop for a few moments to stare up at the night sky.
You have turned your inner misfit inside out, for the world to gawk and stare at.
For long minutes, she would stare as the colors faded and a glassy light emerged from the sky and from the Scotch pines surrounding the house.
Both as Wayne and as super-Wayne he seems indifferent, as the films themselves are, to the activities of little people, and to the claims of the everyday, preferring to semi-purse his lips, as if preparing to whistle for an errant dog, and stare pensively into the distance.
Like one subject, the French photographer Nadar, his search is for la ressemblance intime behind the studio stare.
In response to seeing rogue investors stare down the Fed, the cautious investor will run for the hills and rack up her savings.
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.
When people tell Macbook users that they could get a great Windows laptop for half the price, they just sort of stare at them.
Basically, E16 is for the folks who want to be able to stare at their screen and drool when they need a break from working.
You keep waiting for Zhang, the impeccable stylist, to stop and stare.
Even among such intimates, boundaries are observed, for fear of crossing an unseen line and triggering a stare of blank, silent rebuke.
Smaller markets aren't always covered by the financial press and if you ask your broker for some research on Kazakhstan you might get a blank stare.
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.
The latest Iran-U.S. stare-down is also prompting some fresh safe-haven investment demand for gold.
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You know, lesiure, the time to stare at the bubbles in beer (or more amusingly, to ponder the bubbles that pass for though as they travel through the head of the new barmaid), contemplate the sunset, whatever it is that we think is the good life.
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In his rubbery Botox-android way, he's creepy to look at (and he makes you wonder if this will be the future for aging movie stars), but there isn't much to Clu besides his telegenic blank stare.
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