It is clear that many superficial item features (e.g., locusts, sparrow wings, eye loss) activate different suites of cognitive resources in experts and novices (Hammer et al. 2005; Nehm 2010).
And thus Bishop has perhaps only slightly prepared the reader's unconscious for what is coming when the white-throated sparrow's "five note song", which might seem innocent, is, in fact, "pleading and pleading", and "brings tears to the eyes".
WILL SPARROW'S ROAD, by Karen Cushman.
His dark sparrow eyes gleamed.
"I sing because I'm free" — "His eye is on!" — "His eye is on the sparrow" — "That's the reason!" — "That's the reason why I sing".
Songs from the Baretta cop show (1975's "Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow") and 1988's Dirty Dancing soundtrack skirted the Top Forty, but that was about it.
Jared Newmark showed vocal savvy as the Policeman; Andrew McDonaugh was a pugnacious Dog; Jessica Bloom, an able Sparrow; and Meagan Stromer an eye-catching Ice Cream Seller.
The only person who notices the incident is Ria Verma (Shefali Shetty), the bride's unmarried cousin, and, as she pieces the truth together, the handsome Tej, who used to look as noble as a sparrow hawk, dwindles before our eyes into a dirty old crow.
"If God has his eye on a sparrow and a little fish that's 30,000 feet underwater, he's omnipotent and involved in everything," said the boxer Evander Holyfield while taking a break from training.
I asked Roth what her favorite bird of the Bible was, and there's no surprise it's the sparrow (English sparrow or house sparrow, Passer Domesticus).
The truth that God has his eye on the sparrow means that the space between the sparrow and outer space is impossible for us to see as God sees it.
