Sentence examples for observed himself from inspiring English sources

It is an 83-minute reduction of a dark and complicated life whose course must have, at any moment, seemed all but inexplicable, not merely to the observers but to the observed himself.

The image is a haunting one, if only because Toibin's last, much acclaimed novel, "The Master," was preoccupied with a man watching the world from an upstairs window, a secret sharer, relishing the power of being an observer while terrified, deep down, of being observed himself.

Any number of players have bad backs, he observed, himself included.

Asked if he has observed himself in action, Cowher said, "I've seen myself being very passionate".

Montaigne observed himself in all his features and in all his moves.

He observed himself becoming neurotically possessive about his little space, at times putting his life in jeopardy by flying into a rage if a guard happened to step on his bed.

It's a vision of childhood, of private life publicly unfolded — and of the observer observing himself — that fascinated my own children.

So there's a neat, postmodern, self-­referential beginning, with Clay, the cool observer of his own actions and feelings — or lack of them — observing himself being observed, an acknowledgment that his version of the story may be only one of many.

Andrée wrote that he was preoccupied with observing himself to determine whether he was afraid.

Observing himself in this way, at a distance, was a matter not so much of objectivity as of egomania.

Then knife and meat both become second nature, and the butcher can turn to observing himself as he cuts.