Yet they were also profoundly disturbed, given to staring blankly and rocking in place for long periods, circling their cages repetitively, and mutilating themselves.

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The receptionist introduced me as I walked into the room and observed four middle-aged men seated around a long, shiny, mahogany conference table all staring blankly at me.

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She thanked them for their patience when she was weeping at an unseen memory, or staring blankly into an uncertain future, or disappearing just before tipoffs to nurse her child.

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Standing in that courtyard, staring blankly at a pile of stones where my 23-year-old self had once posed for a photo, I was suddenly hit by the elasticity of time.

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Despite the public image of a politician in perpetual motion, Mr Sarkozy can be found in this book in quiet contemplation, staring blankly out of a window, or into the night.

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If I had a list, I had a purpose, and no matter how awful the situation was, I had a nice long list of tasks to keep me busy every day and keep me from staring blankly at my screen.

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Every night, for months, the television showed Euro-angular German stockbrokers, post-frat looking American traders, frantically disheveled Asian commodities brokers all looking up at tickers the home audience couldn't see, staring blankly upward as if they were waiting for Superman to save them.

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After a professor at the Institute (Stellan Skarsgard) discovers that the surly janitor he's argued with in the hallway is capable of off-handedly deciphering mathematical equations that leave his graduate students staring blankly at the chalkboard, Will is taken under the professor's wing.

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