Sentence examples for sentient observer from inspiring English sources
When Obama was unable to get a public option in the health reform plan, liberals derided it as presidential fecklessness even though any sentient observer of Senate politics would have understood that even Democrats were refusing to support such a plan.
Comey's letter did not say whether the e-mails implicated Clinton in any wrongdoing — agents hadn't even examined the contents at that point — but, as any remotely sentient observer could have predicted, his interjection created a sensation that was damaging to Clinton's chances.
No sentient observer could sit this one out on the sidelines.
In his explanation, he says out loud what any sentient observer of the Capitol knew a year ago.
Then again, none of this should be a surprise to even sentient observers of American politics.
As both the city and the state sink ever more deeply into fiscal quicksand, it's become clear to most sentient observers that broad-based tax increases of some kind will be necessary to ward off a real disaster.
Stubbs goes further and portrays his leopards as sentient, sensitive, acute observers that return our gaze.
Then the whole thing was felled, toppling with a quivering death throe like that of a sentient animal, as one keen observer put it, and it was off to the lumber mill.
The painting, he wrote, "proves the opposite of everything it seems at first to be: not simple, not monolithic, not static, not colorless, but ambiguous, organic, crafty, and sentient, albeit only in the eyes of an observer who is willing to meet its dark demands".
They are sentient beings.
