Flashing microtext that, when viewed with the unaided eye, appears to be part of the line design, bet under magnification is seen as a repeated pattern of words, codes or numbers.
There are elegant pottery statues of court ladies from the Tang dynasty, a tiny boat carved from an olive stone—it's even difficult to make out the details from a magnifying glass.
The last two years of the pandemic in particular have shown like a magnifying glass the importance of trust in politics and science, as well as in social discourse, but also the fragility of trust.
We can pretend this is a Swiss army knife with different tools in it, and one of the tools is kind of like a magnifying glass or a GPS for our DNA, so it can home in on a certain spot.
My eyes have turned into magnifying glasses; the hideously bright morning light coming in through the hotel windows is being concentrated by them and will soon set my brains on fire.