Velázquez, he says at the Prado, "strikes me dumb"; he then stands aside and lets us gaze in awe, as if looking over his shoulder, at the illustration on the facing page.
For the rest of us, let us merely gaze upon the USB Retro Vacuum from Gadgetshop.com with an approving grin.
At the risk of navel gazing, let us navel gaze for a minute and skate over the many national issues they are addressing.
In this, the hour of the annual tuition bill, the season of the fiscal cliff, let us pause to gaze in wonder at a true curiosity: the tax break for people who send their children to private or religious schools for kindergarten through 12th grade.
So much for the earth; now let us adjust our gaze to the stars.
"All I hope is that they let us pass," she said, gazing through the bridge's metal bars to the clocktower and outlet shops of downtown Laredo, Texas.
For illustration, let us assume that the gaze of participant X is at the first word of a sentence and, hence, the actual horizontal gaze position is on the far left side of the screen (e.g., 110 pixels from the left screen edge, or about -15° from the center of the screen).
"In sight of the city of Jericho, our gaze directed toward Jerusalem, let us lift up our prayer to Almighty God for all the people in the Promised Land, Jews, Muslims and Christians".
Thomas Carlyle's description of music as "unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that" is even more applicable to those of us who make music than those who merely listen to it.
