beholds

In “Touch,” a boy beholds his bleeding finger.

Now, as Putin contemplates a move into Ukraine, he beholds an America weakened by political division bordering on dysfunction.

Into the space once taken up by monthly pains and forbidden longings arrive mystical visions in which she beholds the Virgin Mary, first as virgin and then as mother.

Instead of a replenishing trickle of water, however, he beholds a sudden deluge of female flesh.

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.