oculus

The portraits are placed under an elaborate, illusionistic ceiling topped with a trompe l’oeil oculus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Standing in the open-air cube that is the oculus of “sister dreamer,” most people have their gaze pointed up, seeing — what else? — themselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

Meanwhile, string connects all this to a giant collage on the wall, to the oculus in the Guggenheim’s ceiling, and all the way down to the boat-shaped fountain in the ground-floor atrium.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023

Time, measured by sunlight moving across the oculus, is marked poignantly in the Guggenheim.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

She confirmed that she had scaled the spire and entered through the oculus, but claimed she hadn’t come to steal.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

“What’s interesting,” Dr. LaForce said, is that the facial muscle engaged by a genuine smile — what’s called the orbicularis oculi — can’t be used on command.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2020

It requires contractions of the orbicularis oculi, the sphincter muscle surrounding the eye socket, which, Duchenne wrote, “is only put in play by the sweet emotions of the soul.”

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 5, 2015

The motor response travels through the facial nerve and innervates the orbicularis oculi on the same side.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

While a performed or deliberate smile requires just the zygomaticus major, the muscle around the mouth, “real” smiles involve both the lips and the muscles ringing the eyes, the orbicularis oculi.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2013

It is almost impossible to tighten the orbicularis oculi, pars orbitalis on demand, and it is equally difficult to stop it from tightening when we smile at something genuinely pleasurable.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell