These are people just discovering the nature of the entrapment of their world on film, and often their fascinated, gawping astonishment is all too evident.
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Every year, it attracts close to 100,000 visitors who come togawpat its wildlife packed waterholes, roam its dusty roads, and relax in its three sprawling rest camps.
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It was constructed not as an empty space for people to wander round andgawpat, but as a working building.
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To decontextualise is to turn treasures of national and international importance into objects just to be gawped at.
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From a party that has just introduced the poll tax, the effrontery is so amazing we can only sit andgawp.
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We have hungry, gawping audiences who will spend not hours but weeks of their lives watching the products of the film industry.
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We must welcome visitors who come here, and encourage others to do so—not togawpat us, but better to understand how the place works.
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Sometimes they also show the people brought in to help move the wreckage or gawping onlookers.
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The family is left gawping as the planes disappears over the horizon.
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I remember families coming in first togawp...
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I just "gawp" at the thing, amazed at how big it is.
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So they gawped in something like awe as their father, on the top deck of the tour bus, pointed out monuments older than anything they had yet imagined.
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