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    observer


    1. Coming home to Kulai's home after a Nightday as an observer at an art auction was where she would rather be


    2. He'd never spoken with the observer on the times when one showed up


    3. Police forensics might find enough to hang a man, but to a casual observer there appears to be nothing amiss


    4. After the next room, she determined that she was not simply an observer, she was a necessary partner for Damash


    5. As each character was called out by the observer, the


    6. But at the same time, any casual observer would think she was the one with the most motive for taking this body


    7. construed as suspect – to an astute observer


    8. That was probably the closest they ever came, to suspecting he was an observer from a starship of an advanced civilization


    9. Within the first few days an observer would be hard-pressed to determine who was the local and whom the visitor


    10. Almost without thought, almost as an observer he watched his body respond to hers

    11. Though to the casual observer she appeared to be no older than Harry


    12. It proved of excellent advantage to me now, that when I was a boy, I used to take great delight in standing at a basket-maker’s, in the town where my father lived, to see them make their wicker-ware; and being, as boys usually are, very officious to help, and a great observer of the manner in which they worked those things, and sometimes lending a hand, I had by these means full knowledge of the methods of it, and I wanted nothing but the materials, when it came into my mind that the twigs of that tree from whence I cut my stakes that grew might possibly be as tough as the sallows, willows, and osiers in England, and I resolved to try


    13. She had taken off the tassely drape and hair beads so the casual observer in the audience didn't recognize her


    14. as a warrior, and John, the observer, was terrified


    15. }, a very careful observer of the agriculture of that country


    16. This highly animated thought form is a shape shifter and can even appear to the observer as something physical and also during the daylight


    17. The observer and the


    18. for the observer to have anything except a subjective


    19. To the casual observer the probe on its journey through the Lyrabes system was nothing special, just one of thousands of explorer probes


    20. They can be the observer as well as the

    21. To the observer in the lab he had entered the event horizon in a fraction of a second, only to appear suspended in time upon entering


    22. The underside transparent as the ship appeared to any outside observer, and for a while disconcertingly vertiginous, like actually being suspended in space


    23. To a casual observer the device seemed to defy physics, as if it were still fixed to the full mass of the moon


    24. from the point of view of a greenhand observer


    25. He was able to view, as an observer, any episodes of his past he felt had meaning, significance of any sort


    26. When I stepped back and became more of an observer than a participant, when I watched my cousins interact with those chickens in the same ways that I did when I was younger, it was quite clear to see just how important those chickens truly were (even if they did smell like poop and pecked at my hands whenever I’d pick one up to hold it)


    27. Petty politicians have used the war for their own purposes, thimbleriggers have not been idle; but to the close observer it was evident that the war was a war of the people, the will of the multitude, inflamed perhaps by much exaggeration and misrepresentation, but nevertheless exerted for a just purpose when unvarnished facts stand forth


    28. Of course, to the ordinary observer, there was nothing awful about the


    29. Art Stupefaction conceals an inherent baseness common to affected styles and manners that is often lost on the casual observer, captivated as many of them are by erratic forms for their own sake without giving considered thought to their (social) implications; radical ―art‖ forms whose intended meaning, if any, are often unclear, its premises anti-social, tasteless, adolescent, absurd, valueless and immoral


    30. When a society begins to lose its moral compass or becomes less critical of questionable points of views or unseemly behavior that diminishes an individual‘s intellectual and moral character, however, and when principled and far-sighted judgments(s) become increasingly muddled and uncertain and when that society fails to exercise reasonable discretion by indiscriminately embracing every hare-brained idea for tolerance sake or taking every (novel) proposition at its face value without giving serious thought to the matter and when an individual, lest he or she be perceived as close-minded or confrontational, remains on the sidelines as a casual observer rather than an active participant, such actions or inactions, whatever the case may be, must inevitably usher the moral and intellectual decline of that society

    31. ‖ By focusing exclusively on a single dimension, (width, length or height), of some geometric configuration, for example, an observer may otherwise lose sight of what each spatial measure brought together properly represents; that is to say, a rectangle, square or triangle or some other material arrangement for that matter


    32. Nature, presented to an observer in its (most) primitive, ‖unrefined‖ and starkest form can be both terrifying and wondrous to behold (provided that the observer has sufficient imagination to perceive a diamond in the rough)


    33. …(that is to say) particularly striking to the casual observer is an inability to differentiate between generations whose phonic accents and (ethnic) customs and forms seem to suggest an unwillingness to integrate into the mainstream…


    34. It is a meaningless hodgepodge of (disconnected) images that courts subconscious impressions and private interpretations of what an observer believes he or she sees or tries to see or believes is seen that is oftentimes something other than what is actually seen; that is to say, it indulges an uncertain mood at an uncertain moment of consciousness that produces an uncertain effect on the mind


    35. Of course that must be true, and that said nothing to the observer


    36. They could not have told an impartial, objective observer why they were on the move, or how many of them there were, or if there were other groups like this one


    37. “Brave lads, the Observer Corps,” I assured him


    38. Billy, with eleven hours on Pups? Jerry, with his observer, falling in flames over Bapaume? That was their first mission


    39. The base-plate was screwed to the dash of the plane, where it could be easily seen and read, even over the pilot’s shoulder by the gunner or observer


    40. All I can say as a disinterested observer is, “Blow me

    41. The guy was caught sending signals out of his bedroom window to an enemy observer on a distant hilltop


    42. That first trench strafing, way back when, the first time I flew as pilot instead of observer


    43. To any observer they looked like two friends cycling around Arthurs Seat as many of the tourists did each day


    44. As an observer, no one trusted my conclusions!


    45. Over the broad expanse of this elongate double river plain that is modern-day Iraq, the interested observer can discern a variety of things


    46. In scene two, there are two objects—the object going from point A to point B, and the second object is the observer


    47. Since the observer has mass, and bodies attract mutually according to their mass, the mass of the observer must have bent the trajectory of the first object—hence affecting the outcome of the observation


    48. If that’s the result of the falling away, of the latest trilogy, where does that leave us? What of the many elements left, yet to be enumerated in more recent history? What happened to those ring-like echoes through time, from the pebble that this Jesus dropped that started us on our latest Christian trilogy? Have they already cycled past our observation, or are we still riding the crest of these reverberations? Are there more behind us, just now coming within our view? And what about those that might be about to, as well as those whose time is yet to come? These cycles, as referred to earlier, that had begun in the time of Jesus, seem to sweep past ever lower the further from their source in time that they are when observed, and the closer that they are to this observer, the less able they are to be seen at all, with any clarity


    49. We return to the LOCATION -yes, this time with capital letters- of our observer


    50. So how does that information reach our observer? Where does it come from? How does he get it?










































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    Synonyms for "observer"

    beholder observer perceiver percipient commentator onlooker witness bystander eyewitness watcher viewer writer author novelist

    "observer" definitions

    a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses


    an expert who observes and comments on something