But for Ruskin, art was not something to be gawped at in galleries.
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That mattered less when tourists gawped at a few churches before retreating to a large hotel.
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Those attending gawped at an interactive bathroom mirror on the stand of Haier, a giant Chinese white-goods maker.
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As we crossed Virginia, we gawped at the mist on the Blue Ridge Mountains and decided to move there.
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Dressed in a skintight animal print jumpsuit and towering spiky platforms, I gawped at the Northern babe who'd come to the rescue.
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Locals in Hanoi gawped at Mr Obama tucking into bun cha, a cheap meal of grilled pork and rice noodles bought from a street stall.
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From their floating vantage point on the Yellow River, about an hour's drive north of central Zhengzhou, they have gawped at the provincial capital's dramatic development.
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After the race in Islamabad on Sunday, the riders, mostly aged in their 20s, swapped stories about being gawped at or catcalled when they go out.
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But correlating those two facts hammers home the idea that the job of cabin crew is to be gawped at; that if a stewardess has lost her looks, she should be discarded and replaced by a younger model, regardless of how good she is at her job.
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Which is kind of fitting: the real arch stood for 2,000 years in Syria before being blown up by Isis militants, and the 2:3 replica in London performed a similarly miniature re-enactment of its story: put up by some pompous local ruler, gawped at briefly, and then taken apart.
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In her previous incarnations, much-photographed and gawped at (Lady Gaga is one of many professed fans), she was both her own model and her own work, an artist of dressing up who made the world her own sort of catwalk, and who makes no apparent distinction between the catwalk and the world.
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He has dangled his legs in hot tubs in Palm Springs, gawped at the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, explored snow at Thanksgiving in Big Bear and sand at Easter in West Sussex, hit up the wineries of the Central Coast and welcomed in New Year's in a cottage in Kent (where the whole family was asleep by 10 p.m.).
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