The votes were tabulated as we watched and it was fun to observe, like any survey there were winners and some losers.
Being an internist, she observed, like being a musician, requires intuition and the ability to listen.
"Words of different lengths," he observed, "like cat, table and hippopotamus, are processed in my head at a different rate.
In 1960, a conservative American journalist observed, "Like Fidel Castro, though on a lesser scale, Morgan was a superannuated juvenile delinquent".
Being an editor in South Africa under apartheid was, as one editor observed, like walking blindfold through a minefield.
Vallaud-Belkacem says she was often "observed like something from another planet" in her 10-year political career.
He observed: "Like his scripts, his outward conformity quickly reveals a naughty non-conformity".
Roman Polanski's "Repulsion" opens with the image of a woman's eye twitching, as the critic Raymond Durgnat observed, like a "trapped animal".
By contrast, the faces are rendered carefully and deliberately, with each beautiful feature and gauche flaw carefully observed, like those of Caravaggio's punk-angels.
Men with long hair, light makeup and stylized mannerisms used to meet behind the large plate-glass windows, observed like tropical fish by curious tourists.
On holidays not universally observed, like Veterans Day, my company will deliver only to businesses it is certain are open.
