Sentence examples for pausing to observe from inspiring English sources

I'm a book critic, a person who evaluates words for a living, and the city, surely, offers its own shifting types of poetry, worth pausing to observe and consider.

As you leave, a herd of red-deer hinds bumbles through the woods, pausing to observe you just as you paused in the Dunwich sun at the outset of the weekend.

A wanderer and bon vivant, he lingered on the road, pausing to observe and sketch, mixing with country folk, dining at local eateries.

The class paused to observe me.

As we approached a lighted tree, we paused to observe an illuminated woman dangling cocoonlike in a hanging yellow net.

Exhausted, shaken, embarrassed, he hardly paused to observe the polished sea before removing his coat and vaulting over the ship's railing into the foaming wake.

"I like watching you figure this stuff out," said a lighting technician who had paused to observe from the back of the room.

(He pauses to observe that he is sounding dangerously like the Monty Python sketch in which prosperous men swap competitive accounts of childhood adversity).

At one point, in any case, a C.I.A. dossier paused to observe: "It is important to note that Szulc's activities can be explained by the combination of his personality, ambition, and the demands on an investigative reporter for the NYT.

Anyone who has built a sand castle by the edge of the sea and paused to observe the rising tide creep in and wash it away, can sink into the contemplative world of the Scottish artist profiled in Thomas Riedelsheimer's film "Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time".

But the four remaining episodes have yet to be broadcast, because "Nightline" has been almost entirely devoted to terrorism (with a pause to observe George Harrison's death).