As long as the local environmentalists were successful, the society remained an observer.
As wise music directors usually do in such situations, Mr. Sawallisch remained an observer, if an impatient one, leaving the direct unpleasantries to the administration and the players.
"In the interest of science I can be for the purpose of this experiment a healthy guinea pig myself and still remain an observer," Ned muses to himself.
Rodgers was headed for another three weeks of irrelevance, of remaining an observer and cheerleader.
However, given the need to establish their legitimacy and to learn anything in depth, it is difficult for a faux activist to simply remain an observer.
And my attempt at remaining an observer, playing along with them as a form of research, only left me feeling unsettled and strangely complicit.
In politics, Rogers preferred to remain an observer, but he spent a few weeks in 1926 as honorary mayor of Beverly Hills until California legislation declared his position illegal ("I ain't the first mayor that's been kicked out," he mused), and he was a supporter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidential candidacy.
Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself.
3. Allow your thoughts of hatred, anger, disgust or whatever you're feeling to be present, but remain an observer of them rather than a reactor.
By contrast, Wilson remained an imperturbable observer throughout "The American Jitters," only once pausing to note that he made good money in the first year of the Depression.
Fluent in three languages, urbane, witty, but always conscious of his dignity, he remained an active observer of international affairs to the end.
