Example sentences of "staring out at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 2 | He was standing at the open window in his pyjamas , the shotgun in his hand , staring out at the front field where the black splash of a jackdaw lay on the white ground beneath the ash tree . |
| 3 | He was staring out at the great dark sweep of the Edge , above the dale . |
| 4 | After a quick glance back through the shop ( Maisie and Ruthie were staring out at the street in silence ) Henry slid one sheet of the printed paper into Gordon 's typewriter . |
| 5 | For example , one of their star turns , David Swift , whose appearance in the first programme of the series staring out at the world through bright blue eyes beneath a battered trilby marked him out as a natural , recalls going to dance halls in the 1950s in search of girls : ‘ I mean there were plenty of songs coming out then where they say , Look at the way she walks . |
| 6 | In the first car Sarah sat dry-eyed , staring out at the passing roads . |
| 7 | Matthew Arnold , staring out at the Channel , thought of Sophocles and the sea of faith that had since receded . |
| 8 | She stood , staring out at the pond and the dark Grove rising up the mountain behind it . |
| 9 | As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather , I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt , staring out at the rain , knowing that if it did n't let up soon he 'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea . |
| 10 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 11 | Slorne became still and took stance on the branch quite near to Creggan , her head tilting to one site , ant her eyes staring out at the sunset sky that rose massively now over the Cages . |
| 12 | Languidly she turned her head to the west-facing windows , staring out at the neighbouring mountain high above the hill upon which Saracen was built . |
| 13 | Smiling to herself , she glanced into the room , and saw General Froebe staring out at the dock with a melancholy gaze . |
| 14 | His astonished gaze was fixed on the second familiar face staring out at the public floggings from amid the crowd of frightened coolies on the first truck , a face he had n't seen for even longer — that of his own father ! |
| 15 | He sat motionless , staring out at the Britches , for five minutes . |
| 16 | He sat up , rubbing his eyes and staring out at the mist that hung over the grey stone building . |
| 17 | She had not drawn her curtains , and she turned on her side , staring out at the velvety darkness , listening to the little noises that came wafting through the open window . |
| 18 | Staring out at the low grey sky , the drizzle that had n't stopped once on the journey up from Wexford , she jammed on her hat . |
| 19 | Staring out at the dim white lawn , through the close-up falling lines of black and white , Alan said quietly , ‘ You love him more than me , do n't you ? ’ ’ |
| 20 | The spoilt , black-haired girl sitting beside him staring out at the river . |
| 21 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 22 | He could have been seven hundred miles away , his hand holding the side curtain open a little and staring out at the darkness . |
| 23 | ‘ When can I see my father ? ’ she demanded , still staring out at the city she had been born in , and feeling waves of love for its brash life force , its moneyed pavements and its frantic race against time . |
| 24 | She laughed and did not reply , staring out at the trees . |
| 25 | Sir John took the goblet and went over to the window , staring out at the sun dazzling the snow on Tower Green . |