Sentence examples for observed no one from inspiring English sources

"And," Marco Polo observed, "no one dares refuse it, on pain of losing his life".

Any attempt at a revival, however, would certainly have to honour Eunice Johnson (who died in 2010) as its muse, for, as Audrey Smaltz (associate Fashion Fair buyer and commentator [1970 77]) observed, no one else could put on a fashion show and "keep it going 50 years".

"Now," he observed, "no one disrobes in the whole of America – it's thought to be too traumatic".

Union officials sent scores of telegraph messages to one another during the three weeks when the raiding party was active, for as the historian Daniel O'Flaherty observed, "no one ever knew where Shelby was until after he had been there".

"One night we were having dinner there and we just thought, 'Let's hold our wedding here.' " After all, as Ms. Kaneko observed, "No one thinks about their personality and says, 'Stephanie: hotel ballroom.' ".

It brings together many of her favourite themes: her greedy passion for gardening (as Germaine Greer observed, "no one has written better about gardens than Colette"), animals and the natural world at large; the younger, handsome lover; nostalgia for a sentimentalised childhood and her beloved mother; and, of course, love – even if saying goodbye to it.

As Gates observes, no one comes to Karachi fashion week for the free champagne.

As one of MacLeod's wise old women observes: "No one has ever said that life is to be easy.

Finding the murderer is the least of Detective Minami's dark tasks in the chaotic, shattered world of occupied Japan, where, he observes, "no one is who they say they are".

As Dai Wei, the comatose but mordantly alert narrator of "Beijing Coma," the new novel by Ma Jian (translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $27.50), observes, "No one talks about the Tiananmen protests any more".

As Sibelius observed, no-one ever erected a statue to a critic.