Sentence examples for impartial spectator from inspiring English sources

Imagine you were an impartial spectator charged with clearing up the Brexit mess.

With the country just the right side of anarchy, the army has so far chosen the role of an impartial spectator.

The brain's "impartial spectator," as Adam Smith warned, has to duel with "the passions". Last year, after surveying shoppers' passions, behavioral economists at Carnegie Mellon University developed what they call the Tightwad-Spendthrift scale.

Although the drastic damage of the first leg weighed on the players' minds, the thoughts of any impartial spectator lingered on the beauty with which Real had met the challenge.

The ultimate problem to which Smith addresses himself is how the inner struggle between the passions and the "impartial spectator"—explicated in Moral Sentiments in terms of the single individual works its effects in the larger arena of history itself, both in the long-run evolution of society and in terms of the immediate characteristics of the stage of history typical of Smith's own day.

Moral norms thus express the feelings of an impartial spectator.

Why should we heed the demands of the impartial spectator?

But is Smith's impartial spectator capable of doing this?

Nevertheless the impartial spectator exists because of real live spectators.

Smith therefore sought to take the posture of an "impartial spectator".

But the moral sense, for Hume, and the impartial spectator, for Smith, pass their own tests.