"Odd men," one tweeter observed rather mildly.
Or was this just a freak longevity that happened to be observed, rather than a typical gestation?
It made sense to be somewhere with this acclaimed novelist while he observed, rather than participated in, what was going on around him.
The hearing is expected to last for one day, and will only assess whether legal procedures during their first trial were correctly observed, rather than focusing on the facts of the case itself.
As Paul Pillar, a former C.I.A. officer and a Middle East expert has observed, "Rather than being inspired by what happened in Iraq after the invasion, Middle Easterners were repelled by it.
The journey is a familiar one, but Packer fleshes it out with a naturalist's vigilance for detail, so that her characters seem observed rather than invented, and capable of mistakes that the author may never have intended.
Elsewhere, a preoccupation with procedure results in judicial review deciding only whether the correct procedure was observed rather than examining the substance of the decision.
And yet divorce, for all Wharton's consideration of it as a subject and her tacit support of it as a right, is possibly the most fearsome enterprise of all… Edmund Wilson observed, rather testily, just a few years after Wharton's death, that "there are no first-rate men" in her novels.
Lord Butler's report observed, rather naively:... we are surprised that neither policy-makers nor the intelligence community, as the generally negative results of Unmovic inspections became increasingly apparent, conducted a formal re-evaluation of the quality of the intelligence and hence of the assessments made on it.
Indeed, this is why a band is observed rather than a single peak.
Essentialists claim that categories of sexual attraction are observed rather than created.
