Sentence examples for is a mere observer from inspiring English sources
Katniss, at a decisive moment, is a mere observer, her skills held in abeyance in anticipation of later opportunity.
It's like they're reporting the weather; something utterly out of their control about which the company is a mere observer.
It's only necessary to defend someone against the charge of being a mere observer if you have a narrow conception of realism, and observation.
Far from being a mere observer, Mr. McCullough is part of the proceedings, being pulled constantly in all directions.
Henson, perhaps thankfully for the often controversial fly-half making his delayed debut for the Welsh after cracking a cheekbone in pre-season, was a mere observer at the added-time scrums that got the home coach's goat.
Others describe a connection to the world that comes in no other way -- the difference, as one hunter put it, between being a participant in nature and being a mere observer.
We parliamentarians are sending a clear message to the Commission that the European Parliament never again will be a mere observer but an equal player in the shaping of European policy.
"She is a mere skeleton covered with skin," one observer remarked.
