Sentence examples for rather than observe from inspiring English sources
"You're terribly aware they're other people," he said, "and so you watch the dance rather than observe the character".
It takes place in a community of German-speaking Mennonite farmers in northern Mexico, and rather than observe their actions and beliefs from the outside, it plunges the audience into an austere yet sensually replete spiritual world.
But this backstory is not intended to explain Elyria, or lead the book to any sort of resolution; Catherine Lacey keeps the narrative perspective strictly internal, making the reader experience rather than observe the book's events.
But Tóibín prefers to focus on Harris's determination to deliver work "the best I could make it" rather than observe the duty Harris proposes that writers should connect with readers.
Significantly, the author of the letter usually looks straight out at the reader, indicating that the latter is been positioned to engage with, rather than observe, the former (Painter et al. 2013: 19).
Stanton is content to embark on the occasional wander back into the past, to when he could influence the fortunes of Hibs rather than observe them, but he has little time for those who hark back to history to say: this was how it was done in my day.
"I think I prefer the role of observer rather than observed.
The imagined viewpoint is that associated with the observer's subjective experience from a first-person perspective rather than observing their own movements from an external perspective, or observing someone else's movements.
Born of frustration, that energy now defines his style, which offers up an edgy, visceral atmosphere rather than observing in a cool, detached manner.
Though the risk is theoretical rather than observed in patients, it may also react badly with some anaesthetics and drugs used to treat diabetes and high blood pressure.
And though Lewis was a splendidly swaggering and suitably thrusting Henry, most of the carnal moments were implied rather than observed.
