How To Use Observant In A Sentence

Certainly observant Jews remember the crusaders as evil butchers, who on their way to Jerusalem, slaughtered and massacred many thousands of Jews and decimated entire Jewish communities such as Speyer, Worms and Mayencea and of course, when they arrived in Jerusalem, put the holy Jews of the city to the sword. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The camera captures Rico's observant nature as he gazes in envy at a mob leader's jeweled cravat, diamond pinky ring, and stock of fine cigars.
First of all, the model of speed regulation and vector control idea are introduced. The math model, coordinate vector change and asynchronous machine controllability and observant are discussed.
So for me, becoming an observant Jew was a straightforward transition.
He also sends his friend Dr. Lefebre, an observant alienist, to check on the emotional well being of the distraught Lucy whose aunts insist she is deranged. A Mortal Curiosity-Ann Granger « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews

Crawlways run as straight as dark directional lines, meeting others in mazy routes that confuse even the most observant caver.
He stared at me with his small, observant eyes and it seemed to me as if he was reliving some experience of his with his mother.
The observant reader will have spotted the appearance above of the expression weakly stratified. Quine's New Foundations
Emerging from the skylight, I turn and walk right into a pearlescent heaven of snowbells (what a thoughtfully beautiful and observant name, like all the old names) and their perfume.
Observant walkers may see red deer along this stretch of the road.
If you are observant you can get little glimpses into their lives by watching and listening circumspectly.
That can't be said for other religiously observant people in the public square.
The dark treacly colours of Adriaen Brouwer's Interior of a Tavern suit the murk and smoke of the pot-houses favoured by that grimly observant wastrel.
Now, call me naive / unobservant / clueless, but I didn't realise that Qurious was designed for a slightly less heterosexual patron than I. I simply assumed the owner was rather indecisive on choice of colour scheme.
You'd have to be very unobservant not to have noticed that there are an awful lot of bloggers with an avowedly (and sometimes aggressively) libertarian political philosophy.
This vaticination, which loses much in the translation, I have given rather fully, as it shows an observant mind. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
An observant doctor can often detect depression from expression, posture, and movement.
An observant traveller, unacquainted with the historical antecedents of the friars in the Philippines, could not fail to be impressed by the estrangement of religious men, whose sacred mission, if genuine, ought to have formed an inseverable bond of alliance and goodfellowship. The Philippine Islands
He was a thin, short man, with an acne-pocked face and observant brown eyes hazed with green.
Akra Jr has started to use two new words in their correct context today (actually, he may have been using them before but has only just registered in unobservant mummy's brain today).
Can you recall a time when being alert and observant kept you safe?
Noël, an observant neighbour in Jamaica, found her garrulous, snobbish and socially aggressive, while success had embittered him.
Observant walkers may see red deer along this stretch of the road.
He was equally unobservant about the political scene, assuring friends in 1939 that there was no likelihood of a war. Times, Sunday Times
The New Testament records that observant Judeans wore decorations called tassels on their garments.
Amid the chatter of diners in Lakeland's restaurants and hotels, observant customers may have noticed the prevalence of Eastern European accents ringing out among the staff.
Most of the population is not particularly observant, but religion is an important aspect of national identity.
No observant Jew will question the coming of the Messianic era as a tenet of Judaism.
He would have then given me my false 10p back, but I would have been safe in the knowledge that eventually I would be able to pass it on, to someone as stupid and unobservant as me.
You can read extremely edited highlights of the following interview in the latest edition of Web User magazine, out today (only 99p from all good newsagents, and free from all unobservant newsagents).
Two fraudulent uses of your debit/credit card on your checking account knowing that you are an unobservant idiot
It is also the case that people who aren't particularly observant become more so, once they begin to raise children.
I am not observant and in fact have many, many transgressions to my credit, yet I am wealthy and content with my life.
It's little things like that which get noticed by observant kids such as myself.
Dark, observant hip-hop meets geezer Garage on the harsh and honest streets.
Now my wife, our two beautiful daughters and I live in a Jewish neighborhood and lead an observant Jewish life.
Well, observant reader Karin alerted me to the fact that Christian displays are hardly politically incorrect in Hamtramck. 05/06/2004
Even in redressing this wrong we must be observant of law; and therefore if it should be found that those who are doing this can plead thirty years 'prescription, they must be bought off, but the misuser must cease. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
How observant you are to notice that two objects at the same temperature feel differently.
That is, among the American upper middle classes, those who are religiously observant are more likely to report friendship and social interaction with people on welfare or manual workers than comparably placed secular Americans. American Grace
Twice when I have been crossing with my child I have nearly been knocked down by speeding unobservant drivers - it's not a very nice encounter.
Even a cat can look at the king, and the lynx-eyed, observant smart cat has taken a close look not only at the boss but also the happenings at the studio during the author's brief but bright innings.
John Barton was the great benefactor who paid for the town's first schoolteacher and who later renounced his worldly goods and became an Observant Friar.
A classic example was the Franciscan Observant friar Bernardino of Siena, whose cult of the name of Jesus, employing what were effectively magical tablets, sparked off accusations of heresy.
Of the eight objects in our solar system that are indisputably planets, five are readily visible to the unaided eye and were known to the ancients, as well as to observant troglodytes.
Observant Jews do not take their chumashim (the printed book version of the Torah, as opposed to the scroll that is in every synagogue) or their siddurim (prayer books) with them into a bathroom. The Jackals on the Right Have A New Hate Campaign To Conduct
An observant viewer of the Double portrait will discern the remains of a burnt-out candle in the front right sconce.
The expression was taut, fiery even, and it seemed ready to pounce - - the eyes beady, observant.
Their comments to the bakers are very funny, observant and well-timed. Times, Sunday Times
Quiet and observant walkers may see red deer along this particular stretch.
Even after the trauma of the attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, this extraordinarily unobservant system creaked on.
At the end of the 15th century six houses of Observants were established, three being transfers from Conventual friaries.
She's also very observant and witty, and he adores that. Times, Sunday Times
The more observant readers of this blog may have noticed that I rather like him.
You need to be much more observant and aware when on a motorcycle than when in a car.
Nonetheless, no one would assert that Mamet is unobservant or lacks internal fire, and when he turns his attention to institutions that deserve a thorough going-over, he may be just the man for the job.
The term moderate Muslims may include those who aren't religiously observant, and thus offend those Muslims who are. Homeland Security Newspeak
The much-vaunted plot ‘twist’ stretches your credulity to the limit: suffice to say that in order to believe it, you would also have to believe that Skinner is woefully unobservant.
Years ago I met a young woman who had recently become Torah observant.
Whips and rods used in a kind of monitorial system by themselves had a great part in the education of these young aristocrats, and, as pain surely must do, pain not of bodily disease or wretched accidents, but as it were by dignified rules of art, seem to have refined them, to have made them observant of the minutest direction in those musical exercises, wherein eye and ear and voice and foot all alike combined. Plato and Platonism
She might not have any eye shadows on or powder for the face, yet she had on a soft shade of lipstick that you would miss if you were not observant - like Kevin.
The writing is witty, observant and supremely intelligent. Times, Sunday Times
The ceremony takes place in the home and is usually performed by a mohel, an observant Jew who may be a rabbi, doctor, or simply one skilled in the technique.
His attention to detail and observant eye make his stories stand apart from the rest of the crowd, not his suffering. Times, Sunday Times
My last student was a real star, she was very conscientious and made very few mistakes because she was very alert and observant.
And being a Kabbalist means you study the Torah, (the "teachings" of God, in the Tanach and Rabbinic literature) and consider that study an inherent duty of observant Jews, correct? Kathleen Wells, J.D.: Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza
An observant shop assistant had remembered exactly what the man was wearing.
For highly observant fundamentalist Americans, their theology inclines them toward skepticism about human nature, but their frequent church attendance somehow moves them to a more optimistic view. American Grace
Even less-observant Muslims fast seriously from sunup to sundown despite the tropical heat.
Might the explanation for the good neighborliness of religious Americans be as simple as this—that the lessons imparted in hundreds of parables and sermons and homilies over the years have had the effect of fostering altruistic norms and values among the observant? American Grace
But for the observant audience member (the one with the Sherlock Holmes observations skills), bloopers can be a major distraction.
Raised in a religiously observant family, he certainly felt the force of scriptural themes.
Ever the observant one, Barry notices these things about me even in these circumstances.
Manion, a great modern American jurist, is but echoing William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, possibly the freest of all states in its early decades, the most jealous and observant of human dignity, human values and human justice which modern history notes. The Fundamental Liberties
This, the eternal activity of the peasant or labourer, whatever his trade, and the worked-over little farm-holdings, with their varied crops, all planted in little bedquilt patches, are the chief characteristics of the French countryside for the observant stranger. The Automobilist Abroad
An observant shop assistant had remembered exactly what the man was wearing.
observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions
They are just as observant of dynamic, expressive and colouristic detail, but the sound they make, enhanced by beautiful state-of-the-art recording, is much easier on the ear.
In the light of the object, we should seize the character of the time from the object observantly; find and express the affecting character moving the subject on any ordinary object.
When gas first spread along a city, mapping it forth about evenfall for the eye of observant birds, a new age had begun for sociality and corporate pleasure-seeking, and begun with proper circumstance, becoming its own birthright. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
If she loved to talk, Mercedes was not unobservant, especially when she was observing these two.
He was also the observant one, casting a sardonic eye on the absurdities of pop stardom, the Swinging Sixties and the aftermath of that crazy decade.
Shoots may grow more than 3 cm a day, and the observant can notice changes in shoot length from day to day.
It is clear he was an observant and witty writer before he married millions. The Times Literary Supplement
1443 Antonio appointed two vicars-general to direct the Observants -- for the cismontane family (i.e. for Italy, the East, Austria-Hungary, and Poland) St. John Capistran, and for the ultramontane (all other countries, including afterwards America) jean Perioche of Maubert. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
She it was, nimble-fingered and observant and idiomatic of imagination, who held together a sometimes wayward consort. Times, Sunday Times
You are subtle and gracious yet keenly perceptive and observant at work, missing nothing but noting every detail or omission.
He is observant and conscientious and pays meticulous attention to details.
It's little things like that which get noticed by observant kids such as myself.
The observant visitor to the Norfolk coast can hardly fail to notice its abundant Second World War defences, especially pillboxes.
There is no evidence that Galilean Jews were less observant than Jews who lived in Jerusalem and Judaea.
The humor of this passage is also typically "Dickensian": observant, tolerant of eccentricities, and devastating all at the same time. Canonical Writers
That this unobservant, naïve and unresourceful ditz is supposed to be a covert C.I.A. operative, assigned to trace the flow of money from Islamic charities in Marrakech to terrorist groups, is patently absurd, as is the trajectory of the plot, which abruptly moves from the subjects of house parties and romantic triangles to those of rendition and torture. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
I will be more observant of how women act around me and be more trusting of my senses.
The post-bellum waves of immigration indicated to observant Americans that the Two Nations were no longer an old-world phenomenon, but a fact of American urban life.
He wears a distinctive black outfit and is strictly observant of religious laws.
The observant may have noticed that the colour scheme of my blog broadly matches the colour scheme of my study, pictured below.
Her wickedly observant songwriting is always entertaining, whether you're nursing a hangover or creating one.
Organic farming requires the farmer to be a better farmer, a more observant farmer, a farmer who practices careful agronomy and conscientious animal husbandry.
Nolasco: and therewith from Carmel mount the children of Elijah prophet led by Albert bishop and by Teresa of Avila, calced and other: and friars, brown and grey, sons of poor Francis, capuchins, cordeliers, minimes and observants and the daughters of Clara: and the sons of Ulysses
Both were ubiquitous, brightly coloured, active in daylight and hard for even the most unobservant to avoid. The Times Literary Supplement
The best memoirs are funny and acutely observant, throwing open the curtains onto a lost place and time. Times, Sunday Times
The reverend gentleman, however, had not been unobservant of the charms of other maidens with whom he had been brought in contact, so, it may be presumed that his heart had "yearned" in vain for them; or, peradventure, these had not played with him so dexterously, when once hooked, as did the fair She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.
Results: The clinic observant result indicated EDR could improve the syndromes, physical signs and liver function, especially descend ALT and AST. The effective rate is 71. 7% .
He had a wide open face, a fresh complexion with very few lines and youthful observant eyes. Seminary Boy
Only at the cost of self-deception," he wrote, can observant Christians preserve a facade of "private blamelessness clean from the stains of responsible action in the world. Belief In Action
It would only take an unobservant secretary or a slip of the pen and suddenly Selby's first team flanker Duncan Phillips is dropped to the thirds, while his brother Owen is handed a place in Yorkshire One side.
The vulture instinct would make him acutely observant for any signs of imminent cerebral haemorrhage in the actor.
My sister came to see the place last night and was quite observant of everything.
By contrast, Thoreau's solitude gave him an observant intimacy with nature that enriched his relation to others.
The problem with their arguments, as observant readers will have noticed, is that their figures are rather shaky.
This is an instinctive action, as the Great Pyrenees were bred to be very observant and possess quick reflexes so as not to be caught unaware by a stalking predator.
He was acutely observant of the poverty around him.
The New Testament records that observant Judeans wore decorations called tassels on their garments.
This was matched by a spiritual resurgence which we see very much in what was known as ‘the observant reform’ which was a reform of the mendicant orders like the Franciscans and the Dominicans.
When challenged by reality in the form of, say, the unobservant friend, the recipient of the vaccine finds he is inoculated against inappropriate anxiety.
The New College Chapel offers even more surprising treasures for the observant viewer.
As the only observant Jew in my circle of family and friends, this is a hard idea to explain and an even harder one for them to understand.
Tony teases Reuven over his observant religious practice and wonders if he'll become a priest one day.
Quiet and observant walkers may see red deer along this particular stretch.
Some of the more observant had noticed the exchange while others remained oblivious.
It's funny, observant and clear of purpose. Times, Sunday Times
It was bleak and funny and tellingly observant. Times, Sunday Times
My perspective on these issues is that of an striving to be observant Jew that regularly davens at an egalitarian Conservative shul as well as occasionally at a liberal Orthodox “Indie Minyan” at a local university. Actually, Not Sure What’s For Dinner | Jewschool
Careless, unobservant picnickers often sit on it. Times, Sunday Times
The more I read this diary, the more I began to trust its terse, unsensational observations, the sense it imparted of an observant man writing not to impress posterity but simply to record his own memories.
Ever the observant one, Barry notices these things about me even in these circumstances.
We are urging passers-by to be observant and have an extra pair of eyes without putting themselves in danger.
I, being an observant person, had noticed that I had not been asked for a bribe lately.
Was he really so unobservant that he had not heard the barbed criticism behind that woman's comment?
An observant shop assistant had remembered exactly what the man was wearing.
For those not familiar with a sheitel, it's a wig worn by observant Jews. Sue Perkins on the joy of the gym
So as I researched my novel, the question naturally arose -- how did Christianity transform from a community of Torah-observant Jews into a Gentile religion that renounced the Law of Moses?
The actual story is fairly clichéd, and the final twist can be easily ferreted out by observant viewers, but the fun in The Ghost is in getting there.
Blogger have recently added a new feature (well it's new to me, but I'm fairly unobservant, so it's probably been around for months) allowing you to create your own little profile page.
A plump, rounded moon settled alongside the twinkling lights and gleamed observantly from its position in the sky.
That's a marvellous description, Mrs Drummond. You're unusually observant.
Observant walkers may see red deer along this stretch of the road.
Being a thoroughly honest person, I thought it would be wise to pre-empt any observant readers of this site, particularly the ones with long memories, who might recall an entry I posted here nearly eight months ago.
This is made thinkable as a prospect by the numerous people of the region who, as any observant traveler will notice, are excellent gardeners, who practice other arts of subsistence such as beekeeping, and who by such means have kept alive the spirit of self-sufficiency and independence. Energy Bulletin -
We are urging passers-by to be observant and have an extra pair of eyes without putting themselves in danger.
Doug Cummings on The Girl Who Leapt Through Time: While [director Mamoru] Hosoda draws a lot of rich humor and observant drama from the setup - his depiction of the random, combustible way teenagers physically move and interact is especially observant - the plotting may actually be too clever by half, resulting in a breathless, looping final act whose logic frankly lost me .... GreenCine Daily: Shorts, fests, etc, 4/2.
I lived with my father in their new, observant family, and maintained an uneasy relationship with my mother.
She was intelligent and highly observant.
For the more observant, it will soon become evident, that the men, the ones who with enough money to go to work on two-wheelers, leave a lot to be desired in their attire.
It's my belief anyway that we should all be a little more empathetic and observant than we are about everything.
But my American friend was sharply observant of our British culture. Times, Sunday Times
You should be observant of the traffic rules.
He was unapproachable, sometimes rude, always sarcastic, but it was also clear that he was uncannily observant.
The observant reader will have noticed that the recipes serve six, although there were only four of us.
Mr Davies is a brilliant, observant journalist who sees and documents everything - then gets the analysis hopelessly wrong.
A large number of observant Jews will not eat Hebrew National products because the certification is not as strict as they would like. Matthew Yglesias » War on Christmas Just Got More Fierce
While himself a college teacher, his sharply observant eye focused on the sturdy backwoodsmen and their families.
The jokes in Daniel Goldfarb's affable comedy about an unlikely friendship between observant and unobservant Jews are as New York - specific as the cityscape set.
And I guess, obviously, the watch word for most travelers is be alert, be observant.
He joined the extremely strict Observant order and excelled in their discipline.
According to Jewish law, nothing made with chametz (any of a number of proscribed cereals and grains, including corn) during passover may be consumed — so in order not to lose sales from observant Jews during that eight day period, a small number of Coca-Cola bottlers make a limited batch of the original Coke formulation, using refined sugar. 27 « March « 2009 « Off The Broiler
Such a production is perfectly fine, is peachy-keen, is jim-dandy as long as the director is aware of making that choice and uses it meaningfully instead of simply being lazy or unobservant. Please Don’t Look | Living the Liminal
You should be observant of the traffic rules.
Fortunately he was very unobservant so I could keep flicking my eyes away from my book to see which page he was on, and as we passed through Harold Wood, I saw that he was reading my column.
I was 15 then and unobservant. Globe and Mail
But I still have opinions, and I'm observant even if unschooled. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
In England heroic wisdom is not yet dead, and quite replaced by attorneyism: the honest beaver faculty yet abounds with us, the heroic manful faculty shows itself also to the observant eye, not dead but dangerously sleeping. Latter-Day Pamphlets
The third character is Mr. Malik's observant, empathetic shamba boy helper, Benjamin. A Guide to the Birds of East Africa: Summary and book reviews of A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson.
On subjects as various as football, the Church and the media, Jones is bold, informative and acutely observant.
However, it would be a mistake to suppose that Walker was foolish or unobservant.
That's a marvellous description, Mrs Drummond. You're unusually observant.
The very observant may have noticed that I swapped webhosts over the weekend.
He is well-read, fair, observant, introspected and slightly disinclined towards arrogance and authority (or any other kind of position holding power). Archive 2008-03-01
Observant readers will also notice a new look to the columnists who grace the back end of our editorial pages.
First of all, the model of speed regulation and vector control idea are introduced. The math model, coordinate vector change and asynchronous machine controllability and observant are discussed.
He is earnest in conversation, his eyes wide and observant. Times, Sunday Times
I said I hadn't noticed it, to which it replied, ‘That's because you are somewhat unobservant and also rather repressed.’
The post-bellum waves of immigration indicated to observant Americans that the Two Nations were no longer an old-world phenomenon, but a fact of American urban life.
My eyes are of a light violet colour like the twilight at dawn, observant and penetrating.
However, on an overhead bridge, tucked in tight to the trees, was a police van happily snapping the unobservant. Times, Sunday Times
The problem with lyrical realism is that it wants to be "observant" of reality (think of that most sought-after of compliments from a reviewer that the Author is Very Observant) but really what even the best of it achieves is not usually recognizable as "real. Zadie Smith’s annoying Critique of ‘Realism’
Raised in a religiously observant family, he certainly felt the force of scriptural themes.
Thus those who ventured into the hinterland were able to violate the rules of Kashruth, a code that sets up dietary rules, with a clear conscience, while remaining observant Jews. Jews in Mexico. a struggle for survival part 1
Parents should be observant in their children's activities; playing, exercising, reading, etc.
Alexander Fleming was an excellent microbiologist, very skilled and observant, and he always checked old culture dishes before throwing them out just to see what might turn up.
Page 53 all appearance, oblivious altogether of things external, he held occasional "confabs" with himself in regard to the unusual objects which surrounded him -- for Suggs is an observant man, and notes with much accuracy whatever comes before him, all the while a body would suppose him to be asleep, or in a "turkey dream" at least. Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor. With a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley
Ashkenazi parents deny that classes were designed to separate children according to background, saying the 'Hasidic' track was reserved for children from more observant families. Haaretz.com headlines RSS
Still, it's otherwise a very observant film, only rarely maudlin.
Being a thoroughly honest person, I thought it would be wise to pre-empt any observant readers of this site, particularly the ones with long memories, who might recall an entry I posted here nearly eight months ago.
It sounded like they were in the middle of a song, though I hadn't remembered the music coming in, though maybe I was just being unobservant, or something.
observant of the speed limit
Those observant among you will have noticed that there is no author listed for this play.
Small farmers from religiously observant homes could look forward to cheap credit and stable leases.
The result is a madcap and bittersweet tale that is funny and observant enough to allow one to overlook writing that occasionally suffers from stereotypical Spanish machismo.
This relaxed, sharply observant book will no doubt be sneered at by academics, which is another reason for reading it. Times, Sunday Times
Observant readers may have noticed that, five years later, there are only two public baths open, and that's on a good day.
When challenged by reality in the form of, say, the unobservant friend, the recipient of the vaccine finds he is inoculated against inappropriate anxiety.
You'd have to have been pretty unobservant not to know there was poverty in New Orleans.
With this sort of spiritualism of the great-hearted self, nonobservant America acknowledged the reality of the transcendent realm. Living-Room Crusaders
It is curiously unobservant of the way that ideas and attitudes have always been advanced, resisted or confounded. Times, Sunday Times
As it happens, we find we already have many Jews, many atheists and agnostics, and many relatively unobservant Christians and Buddhists.
All students, not just those who are religiously observant, are able to eat in the dining hall.
Anne had a brighter face, and bigger, starrier eyes, and more delicate features than the other; even shy, unobservant Matthew had learned to take note of these things; but the difference that disturbed him did not consist in any of these respects. Anne of Green Gables
Yet, antiabortionist would have her ignore the very rule that strict observant Pro-Lifers are supposedly telling her to follow, which is to protect the life of her child. National Catholic Reporter

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