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You need to sidle up to things, let your eye snag on a detail, get sucked in then turn away again, allowing yourself to look while your mind is elsewhere.
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My eye snagged on the French puffins.
My eye snagged on a Guardian headline on the website the other day.
Her eyes snag on the corners of things, the light glancing cruelly on polished surfaces.
If the final product isn't exactly revolutionary, it still delivers smart anarchic punch when skillfully packaged, as it is here, in an ensemble that manages to be something more -- a piece of art in itself, actually -- than the sum of its eye-snagging parts.
But my eye always snagged on a strong, determined winger, who was always locked on to the job.
With an eye toward snagging some of the same votes, Mr. Ney, an Ohio Republican, said in an interview that he was leaning toward producing a rival bill that would limit but not ban soft-money contributions to the political parties.
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