oculus
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The American architect and artist created a contemplative moment with her two-part sculptural fountain: One stone lies flat as water bubbles up and over it, while an adjacent 11-foot-tall stone oculus emits a gentle mist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Time, measured by sunlight moving across the oculus, is marked poignantly in the Guggenheim.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
At the top is an oculus, a round opening in the roof, like in the Pantheon in Rome.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
At ground level, a circular port called an oculus will allow passersby to peer into a 325,000-gallon coral canyon teeming with thousands of fish and invertebrates.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
I glance over my shoulder to see if Killer Man is giving me the evil oculus, but he is not so much as looking in my direction.
From "The Misfits" by James Howe
In Classical architecture, oculi were left open to the elements, and these skylights can open, too.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2016
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
This expression was more complex, utilizing both the zygomatic major muscles and the orbicularis oculi muscles that form crow’s feet around your eyes.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2014
Another example is the orbicularis oculi, one of which surrounds each eye.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 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
