eyes open, with

My eyes open with a burning realization.

Or I'll say "OK, you can do three pictures with my eyes open with the flash and no more."

Mama was kneeling down, literally holding her own eyes open with her fingertips.

“Yes. You will see it. You won’t be spared. If I have to hold your eyes open with my own hands, you will witness every second of it.”

A delusional actor with eccentric interests responds to a disappointment by “staring at the sun through the smog on the balcony, holding his eyes open with his fingers, crying.”