Sometimes, I mindlessly find myself logging on to Facebook and staring at photos I have posted of my children when I just as easily could be staring at the real thing.
Ten years ago, I was staring at this tiny little pink bundle, wondering what I had been thinking, how could I possibly take care of this crazy little baby.
In Gough Square, in front of Samuel Johnson's tall and staring house, I stopped for a while to watch a workman digging up a drain, taking the opportunity to gaze down into the rich strata that lay beneath the London pavement.
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"Guardiola was staring at me and I lost it, " continues the Swede in 'I am Zlatan'.
Ms. APPLE: (Singing) I was staring out the window the whole time he was talking to me.
Then I was staring at my hand again, the fingers slightly parted, the skin of the knuckles like small walnuts, the nails with vertical lines of faint shine.
Sometimes I will find myself staring at the blinking Sanskrit of an airport arrivals and departures schedule to the point of no longer remembering where I'm going, or why I'm bothering.
Staring at those stones, I remembered what Mohammed had told me earlier while we talked over tea.
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the likely rates for Series I Savings Bonds staring in May 2011.
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When I was eight, I was busy staring at a console playing rather hard Sonic the Hedgehog or Super Mario levels, but now?
Late in the day, deep in the urban Baghdad district of al-Bayaa, I was walking back to the Humvee when I saw Marcus staring at a spot up the road.
Would I recognise the woman staring back at me in the mirror?
So it was a great relief when I spotted something on the blank horizon I'd been staring at for the past six hours.
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Now we were going along a multilane highway, with other cars alongside us, and I kept my eyes staring straight ahead, fearing the laughter and crude comments that the sight of the two of us was no doubt prompting in the cars around us.
She just squats there with one hind leg weirdly raised, staring straight at me, as though I might run off without her.
After a morning of staring at the jungle's edge, I was dying to see what lay beyond.
Once or twice, I surprised him in the mirror, staring at the French Woman with a mute, concentrated passion, as if he himself were unable to believe that such a woman was his wife.
When I was small, I would sit on his lap, staring at the stump of his left index finger, rounded and smooth, the top two knuckles so cleanly severed it seemed he'd been born without them.
While Sall made herself busy in the kitchen, I would sit in the dining room with the paper spread out on the table, or I would listen to the radio, staring out at the garden and fiddling with the dials to get a better signal.
That ad certainly captures the urgency with which I, and millions of others, keep a staring eye on a laptop or iPhone.
Four years later, I'm sitting in my San Diego bedroom, staring at another Spelman acceptance letter.
When I finally stood, the woman and the young man were staring baldly.
Blondy looked relieved that I was chasing a moral in his fable, rather than staring with him into the black hole of his personality.
He was very tall, too warmly dressed for the season, and he was staring at me, as if he were near-sighted, or worried I might make a sudden move.
No long faces standing around in the rain, staring down into a hole in the ground while someone drones on about how wonderful I was.
For a moment I focus on the glass and catch the faint, honest reflection of my eye staring back at me, a lock of gray straggly hair in its way.
Maybe, I thought, if I ordered this wireless Kindle 2 I would be pulled into a world of compulsive, demonic book consumption, like Pippin staring at the stone of Orthanc.
If you have ever driven a G-series Infiniti, you will know why I love the subtle humps on either side of the hood, a constant visual reminder that you are staring down something shapely from within the cockpit.
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