beholds
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“For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
This experience is reciprocal: the religious believer beholds the deity and is beheld by the deity in turn.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
In the aria, Sara, Duchess of Nottingham, is hiding her tears from everyone but the audience as she beholds in the tragic tale of the Fair Rosamund a reflection of her own lovelorn grief.
From Washington Post • May 6, 2021
“Whenever there is desire, one beholds the manifestations.“
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2020
The will, of which life is the mirror, and knowledge free from will, which beholds it clearly in that mirror.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur