In "State of Denial," Woodward, no longer the passive observer of events, charts the period during the insurgency when the obdurate optimism of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld became a refusal to confront reality.
He must remain a detached observer of events, butwitnessing rabble-rousing and lawlessness amongst the local inhabitants, he breaks his neutrality and interferes in the process of an alien civilisation.
Beginning with the 1948 surrender of Nazareth to Israeli soldiers, Suleiman plays a silent observer of events, sometimes droll, sometimes melancholic, and displaying the sort of level-headedness one wishes those involved in the peace process would show.
It was a baptism of fire, for, at that point in the early 1970s, the violence was escalating by the day, but despite his lack of formal journalistic training, Dunseith quickly emerged as a shrewd observer of events and an incisive political analyst.
An effective scientist is an ardent observer of events that seem to lead to an outcome.
However, in the relativistic description the observability of events is absolute: the movements of the observer do not influence whether an event passes the "light cone" of the observer.
Unlike other observers of those events, however, he did not mention Serbian nationalism and his own rise to power.
Observers of current events, in the Iraqi political arena in particular, will be conscious of the snail's pace and potential for slippage that occurs in such national unity polity.
Impartial observers of the events surrounding the supposed capture of computer files from the Farc, and their subsequent revelation in the media, have long ago concluded that the files are highly dubious at best.
