Therefore, instead of observing characteristics and explaining people using objective observations, he asked the respondents to explain their world, as they perceive it [25].
So he chose a novel but controversial approach: instead of observing an election, he participated in one.
"He was encouraging the M.B.A. students at Stanford to jump into running their own businesses, instead of observing other businesses," she said.
But what if, instead of observing the modern mind from the outside — its immersion in thought, its paralysis of will, its tangled motives, its confusion of time planes — what if the novelist were to record this from the inside, let the hero tell his own story, in a way that reflected as faithfully as possible the movements of his psyche?
Instead of observing men and women's struggles in a global, industrialised context, he sought out the natural world in what he calls its most "pristine" state, spending eight years on the road in 35 countries and in places as diverse as Siberia, Papua New Guinea, Alaska and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
And here we arrive at the real ghost that haunts these books, the one that sends us to Paris or Berlin for help: the sense that American parents have gone radically wrong, making themselves and their kids miserable in the process, by hovering over them like helicopters instead of observing them from a watchtower, at a safe distance.
In Gallic B-movie thriller Switch (2011, Anchor Bay, 15), Cantona downshifts into cutout caricature as a gruff, chain-smoking cop who has no time to shave and is constantly being chewed out by his superiors for following his instincts instead of observing protocol.
Instead of observing the images of the zinc films, field corrosion of the tungsten tip was observed.
Instead of observing about 170 tau pairs of a certain type, as the Standard Model predicts, physicists have seen 228--a figure consistent with supersymmetry.
