Thinking about it, surveying us up and down, he said we looked skeptical.
In "Shut Up and Play the Hits," Murphy appears both awake and overwhelmed while performing it, surveying the crowd with bewilderment, as if the circumstances of his life didn't quite square until that moment.
As Cogswell put it, surveying the house from a tiny porch off Louis's den, "Here's one of the great geniuses of Western music, not only of the twentieth century but any century, and he lived like a regular guy, in Corona, Queens".
As Pierre Justinvil, the deputy mayor of Cap Haitien, puts it, surveying a housing development built by a Minnesota-based company, "I personally, with my own hands, have just built a whole school for less than the cost of one of the houses, and more quickly".
Or, as Nate puts it, surveying with chagrin the gradual change in the women of his acquaintance, now that they're in their thirties: When he was twenty-five, everywhere he turned he saw a woman who already had, or else didn't want, a boyfriend.
