May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes (Granta), is a sharply observant, if slightly fantastical, satire on modern family life that made me laugh out loud.
By this time, Emwazi was said to be a polite, observant Muslim with a penchant for designer clothes.
But children are observant, they see and hear what is going on around them.
Although Ralph and Marion were not observant Jews, they were defined by their early life as Jews.
I am not a rabbi, nor am I a very observant Jew.
Indeed – as any observant visitor will spot on the Energy landing, where Shell's sponsorship ensures that hydrogen (our only possible large-scale future fuel) is damned with the faintest of praise.
When he entered office in October, Jokowi, though an observant Muslim, was welcomed as a president willing take risks for a more secular, pluralistic Indonesia.
And southerners are unusually observant: Utah is the only non-southern state where church attendance is as high as in Dixie.When piety is grafted on to a small-government political philosophy 57% of southerners think the government does "too much" and only 37% think it should do more, according to Gallup it explains much of why the South remains different.
Americans, for example, may love material things and the consumer society but they are much more religiously observant than almost all Europeans.
But Fairchild, who was an observant plantsman and a meticulous record-keeper, was in a better position than the academic botanist to study the growth of plants in practice.Fairchild studied how sap moved in plants and eventually became an expert in the techniques of grafting.
"Out of 35 people, only one person, a woman, was observant," reports Alex Yakobson, a senior lecturer.
