Sentence examples for rather than observed from inspiring English sources

"I think I prefer the role of observer rather than observed.

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.

This, the novel's biggest weakness, is largely a failing of Mangan's prose, which tends to be general rather than specific, lofty rather than grounded, received rather than observed.

(Holden) 'SNOW ANGELS' (R, 1 46) David Gordon Green's warm, offbeat direction and some fine performances cannot rescue this tale of small-town American misery from a studious grimness that seems assumed rather than observed.

(Catsoulis) 'SNOW ANGELS' (R, 1 46) David Gordon Green's warm, offbeat direction and some fine performances cannot rescue this tale of small-town American misery from a studious grimness that seems assumed 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.

"You're terribly aware they're other people," he said, "and so you watch the dance rather than observe the character".

Born of frustration, that energy now defines his style, which offers up an edgy, visceral atmosphere rather than observing in a cool, detached manner.

But he concedes that the darkness his work taps into is "the same stuff that people who write autobiographically are drawing on, except that I'm only sensing the connections rather than observing them".

There is, perhaps, some consolation for local audiences in feeling that London is once again the hub of the Empire and that they are at the centre of the apocalypse, rather than observing it from the periphery.