oculus
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The portraits are placed under an elaborate, illusionistic ceiling topped with a trompe l’oeil oculus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Vines will hang from the Lucas’ floating oculus, right above its entry court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
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
I see her giving Addie the evil oculus every morning as Addie stands there, silent as dandruff and every bit as annoying.
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
The corneal reflex is contraction of the orbicularis oculi muscle to blink the eyelid when something touches the surface of the eye.
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
