Sentence examples for detached spectator from inspiring English sources
In addition to being a harsh vision of run-down inner city life, it was also a kind of thriller in which an alienated outsider moves from detached spectator to involved participant in the manner of Hitchcock's Rear Window.
Iris was being transformed, and very successfully transformed, into art -- into art which I could enjoy as if I were almost a detached spectator, without feeling the pangs and the sorrows, the joys too, which are the daily accompaniment of remembering the woman I lived with for so long, and looked after when she was ill.
"I see it as an opportunity, not an opportunity against Serena," said Venus, who was an emotionally detached spectator when Serena won the United States Open last summer to become the first of the two to win a Grand Slam singles title.
From this point of view you can see life as a movie and yourself as a detached spectator.
The foundation, set up after the big city riots that swept through the US in the 1960s and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968, singles out the project as "one of the most promising new variations on public journalism" where media outlets act as "participants in community life rather than as detached spectators".
Involvement in these issues transforms us from detached spectators wringing our hands in futility to engaged individuals charged with purpose as we move to solve our problems.
Whereas lifting ordinary kids outside their ordinary sphere to the plane of philosophical contemplations runs the risk of turning them all, to some degree, into detached ruminators of life, not even spectators but theorists, critics, or — to use the word on which both "The Social Network" and Lena Dunham's "Tiny Furniture" turn — assholes.
Whereas lifting ordinary kids outside their ordinary sphere to the plane of philosophical contemplations runs the risk of turning them all, to some degree, into detached ruminators of life, not even spectators but theorists, critics, or to use the word on which both "The Social Network" and Lena Dunham's "Tiny Furniture" turn assholes.
It's as though everyone is a spectator at a sporting event, or watching a game show on TV - a detached enjoyment, as though this orgy of Russian patriotism carries no consequences, so there is no point in thinking where it might lead.
Instead he creates a detached perspective by dropping the whole system of close-ups and cross-cutting that classical cinema uses to envelop the spectator emotionally.
