The first is headed by the Inspector, a police detective, who, like Freud, thinks of himself as a trained observer, a professional listener, adept at eliciting the secrets of witnesses and suspects.
Michael Foot Labour peer and biographer Since Tribune may be reticent in blowing its own trumpet and since The Observer has strangely suggested that George Orwell was adept at blowing his own, all such contradictions may be swept away for ever by the new comprehensive volume, Orwell in Tribune: As I Please and Other Writings, 1943-47 (Politico's £19.99).
In 1973, Adi Da began to use more unconventional means of instruction he called "crazy wisdom", likening his methods to a tradition of yogic adepts who employed seemingly un-spiritual methods to awaken observer's consciousness.
But, while "Testimony" proves that Robertson is an immensely capable storyteller and a keen observer of the gifts of others, he is less adept at explaining his own creative process.
What few observers expected was that BAE Systems would prove as adept as it has at taking business from longtime incumbents thought to be leaders in their fields.
More than that, they have the tools that take them from passive observers to active participants, and they're highly adept at wielding them.
A once adept, single, independent, articulate, multi-tasking American woman overnight became an inept, mute observer who does everything wrong at every turn.
Observers recall a not particularly impressive political figure, who nonetheless proved himself an adept administrator.
It was only a few short years ago that the nation's most keen-eyed observers of fashion were examining the term "lumbersexual," which denoted men who pretended to be adept at chopping wood when in reality their jobs mostly consisted of sending emails to one another, then attending meetings.
Schulz is not just a quotable writer; she is also a canny and original observer adept at pointing out things that we should have known, but didn't.
