behold

Ugly as this story gets, the result is beautiful to behold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

With AI images bleeding into the real world at a pace none of us can keep up with, there’s human marvel to behold in Anderson’s madness.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The uprising is a sight to behold, and this summer I went to Albania and beheld it.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Our critic raved that “Both indoors and out, Porter proved that there was beauty where one was inclined to behold it. This show is an invaluable opportunity to do just that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Afterward her lord husband led his guests onto the lower terrace, so the visitors from the Yellow City might behold Meereen by night.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

“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

In the Phaedrus, Plato describes the soul sprouting and growing wings when it beholds something beautiful.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

The performance will be conducted by Carl St.Clair and will feature Tess Altiveros as the Child who beholds the magic spells.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2019

Theologically speaking, pride turns itself inward; it beholds the self and deems it sufficient.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2018

The individual is thus a monad which is inwardly aware of its actuality—a genius which beholds itself.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Two wardrobe changes meant that we beheld three glittering gowns in all, beginning with the fluffy canary-yellow number she emerged in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2025

At least, it did until very recently, when we fully beheld the wretched manifestations of Meta’s desperate A.I. push.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2025

She hiked uphill from her riverside worksite and beheld a vista of sheer mountain slopes unbroken by rivers or streams.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

It remains firmly planted in our hearts, just as it was in the hearts of the shepherds when they first beheld the baby in the manger.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

However, she faltered as she beheld the mounds of bone-colored rock at the far end of the compound, and the small figures going in and out of the many mouthlike holes cut into the mountains.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

There is a particular thrill in beholding a portrait as old and as lifelike as Isidora’s, just over a foot in height and 6 inches wide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Still, while beholding this inspiring mobilization, a basic question kept nagging at me: How do you even get tens of thousands of people in one Zoom call, let alone 100,000?

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2024

This strange association of items creates the sensation of beholding the remains of a scientific experiment, seen through a magnifying lens.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

Allison meets Viktor when she returns and, upon beholding his true presentation, chastises herself for not realizing it all along.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2022

Her frantic joy at beholding me again moved me much.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë