How To Use Observing In A Sentence

  • Observing the affected knee may reveal dystrophic changes, alteration of skin color, calluses related to kneeling or occupational abuse of the knee, scars, scratches, or rashes.
  • * A few of the women flipped through photos of Manou's bastide, * observing its before and after transformation. French Word-A-Day:
  • Spacewatch discovers hundreds of new kilometer-sized belt asteroids with every observing run.
  • In Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, the "telescreen" compulsorily present in every house is not only a television broadcasting from the outside, but a sort of CCTV camera, observing the people in the room, shouting at them if they fail to meet the standards ordained by the state of which Big Brother is the dictator, always watching them. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • We are already observing what appear to be trends towards increasing, long-term aridity in parts of the world. RealClimate
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  • Specifically, several studies have demonstrated that participants will confidently infer a strong causal link between two events after observing only a single positive instance of a cause and effect co-occurring.
  • But observing them, I did imagine what it would be like to hold one of those pens in my ringed hand. Times, Sunday Times
  • James Ponsoldt: This notion is at the core of Killer of Sheep: what it means to be an adult, and how children learn and internalize grown-up behavior and responsibilities through lectures, through tears, but mostly by silently observing, peeking around corners, usually unbeknownst to their parents. GreenCine Daily: Filmmaker. Spring 07.
  • We also modify our behaviour by observing the behaviour of those around us and by becoming influenced by social expectations and values. Know Your Own Mind
  • He watched, observing as she picked up a fork that her nails showed the same glint as her hair. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Belfast Telegraph has a letter that I think bears repetition: Our own observatory at Armagh is one of the oldest in the world and has been observing solar cycles for more than 200 years. Archive 2008-08-01
  • For it is the peculiarity of linear extension that it alone allows its magnitudes to be placed in _absolute_ juxtaposition, or, rather, in coincident position; it alone can test the equality of two magnitudes by observing whether they will coalesce, as two equal mathematical lines do, when placed between the same points; it alone can test _equality_ by trying whether it will become _identity_. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
  • Spanish spies had been observing the training manoeuvres and other preparations of the French fleet. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
  • They alleviate the difficulties of observing subtle changes that are difficult to observe with more established methods such as superimposition.
  • Some quite inquisitive - and even proprietorial - individuals came close, begging for food and carefully observing us whilst we worked in the water.
  • Observing the famous sculptors Luyani and Nsebani at work, Kitaia dreamt of becoming a professional carver and tried to make one piece after another.
  • A herring gull with a crab claw in its beak stood on the harbour wall, observing me with pale, unfriendly eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Latin verb gustare, "to taste;" but Medlar pleaded custom in behalf of C, observing, that, by the Doctor's rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety? The Adventures of Roderick Random
  • Shakespeare coined the word "inauspicious," riffing on the Latin auspicium, the art of telling the future by observing the flights of birds: "And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars. The Nation: Top Stories
  • The present seems to be a convenient place for observing, that however the distinction is strongly insisted upon, or rather implicitly acquiesced in by many, which would admit of a worship or service called dulia (the Greek [Greek: douleia]) to saints and angels, and would limit the worship or service called latria ([Greek: latreia]) to the supreme Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • I know all these women are experienced campaigners, but how rewarding to see that they are all still enjoying their game, observing the protocols, and displaying excellent sportsmanship.
  • I think we may be observing the general social norm that frowns on age discrimination and accommodates disability.
  • Her brothers, observing how she cherishes the plant, steal the pot, discover the mouldering head, and fly, conscience-stricken, into banishment.
  • Observing this, ‘It was an old song, old as the breed itself [and it was] vested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which Buck was so strangely stirred.’
  • During the perilous expedition through jungle and across high altitudes, the group encounters tribes of headhunters and cannibals, observing and filming their rituals and ceremonies.
  • The ship's master, observing this, remarked, ‘I would give a hundred guineas for the faith of that child’.
  • Step 2 was to accuse the administration of observing a double standard on leaks, giving reporters national security information when the information benefits them and vilifying leakers when it doesn't.
  • A characteristic of many psychiatric disorders is the person’s inability to assume the abstract attitude or to shift readily from the concrete to the abstract and back again as demanded by circumstances. alexia Loss of a previously intact ability to grasp the meaning of written or printed words and sentences. alogia An impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speech and language behavior. Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 11, 2006
  • Thinking more about this, it’s worth observing that our current low-tax environment has hardly created a free market in intoxicating beverages. Matthew Yglesias » Booze Taxes and Booze Regulations
  • Even the timorous Lord Mayor, who was summoned that night before the Privy Council to answer for his conduct, came back contented; observing to all his friends that he had got off very well with a reprimand, and repeating with huge satisfaction his memorable defence before the Council, ‘that such was his temerity, he thought death would have been his portion.’ Barnaby Rudge
  • I watched with interest - it was like observing the gyrations of an alien species, a praying mantis or something.sentence dictionary
  • The first half of the film consists of SS officers observing potential recruits in all manner of borderline reprobate acts.
  • As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
  • Many are attracted by the prospect of observing a menagerie of erotic freaks and abject ferals.
  • The captain of a submarine is shown observing through the periscope a broken-backed merchantman, torpedoed fair amidships and sinking by the bow, with the complacent rhyme.
  • This same motif of the observing procuress appears in one of the prints in the notorious series of pornographic designs by Giulio illustrating various positions of copulation between men and women.
  • For example, the effect of acids and salts on a solution of an optically active substance such as nicotine could be followed by observing the rotation of the plane of polarised light through a polarimeter.
  • I have elsewhere spoken of a past sabbatarian strictness, and I have lately received an account of a strictness in observing the national fast-day, or day appointed for preparation in celebrating Holy Communion, which has in some measure passed away. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
  • Aside from observing the etiquette of treating our fellow man respectfully, this strikes me as basic common sense. Times, Sunday Times
  • I sat at the back of his court for the day, observing the cases that came before him and the way advocacy was conducted. Times, Sunday Times
  • We started by observing the global conflict which exists today between socialism and capitalism.
  • One of the more memorable scenes in the book, at least for me, has Smith observing a working-class woman whistling a tune while hanging out the washing.
  • Method: 140 patients with chronic filariasis were investigated by the methods of questionnaire, conversation and observing.
  • Whether it was analyzing Lee Trevino or counseling Mickey Wright, Penick stressed remaining true to your natural swing tendencies while observing a few basic guidelines.
  • The God whom Paul found was not rapt with pleasure when looking on people observing the Law, as the Pharisees would have expected.
  • Adapter and star Moe Angelos plays the young Sontag alongside a video projection of the older, more iconic Sontag also played by Angelos, who smokes and offers gnomic comments while observing the action. Michael Giltz: Theater: Under The Radar and Coil Warm Up January
  • Even the simple act of observing a sleeper normally requires forgoing sleep oneself.
  • Walpole's story of the French lady who asked for her lover's picture; and when he demurred observing that, if her husband were to see it, it might betray their secret -- "O dear, no," she said -- just like Mr. Macaulay -- "I _will have the picture_, but it _need not be like_! Famous Reviews
  • Whether it was analyzing Lee Trevino or counseling Mickey Wright, Penick stressed remaining true to your natural swing tendencies while observing a few basic guidelines.
  • Beetles are usually identified by observing differences in the male's genitalia, which sport all sorts of uncomfortable-looking protuberances.
  • If watching this FX series takes a strong stomach, observing Dr Sean McNamara and Dr Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) withstand the various insanities life slings their way can be a test of will and loyalty.
  • The Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite captured this image of a barrier island facing the Beaufort Sea, on the northern edge of Canada's Northwest Territories.
  • She held the tears back and continued observing, blinking a few times so her vision could clear.
  • I amused myself one day by observing the springing powers of this insect, which have not, as it appears to me, been properly described. 15 The elater, when placed on its back and preparing to spring, moved its head and thorax backwards, so that the pectoral spine was drawn out, and rested on the edge of its sheath. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • In addition, the pigs can also serve as models for observing the complications associated with diabetes, such as arteriosclerosis, and they could help researchers develop new medicines. Fourth-Generation Pig Clones Born | Impact Lab
  • We Homo sapiens are fascinated by observing our fellow creatures as they go about their daily grind - eating, sleeping, courting.
  • Dr. Udry said he and Dr. Sasselov would be observing the Gliese system with a Canadian space telescope named Most, to see if there are any dips in starlight caused by the new planet. Earth-Like Planet Found Close By | Impact Lab
  • The crew chief for the parked aircraft was also observing the wingtip clearance and continued to signal to the marshaller that all was clear, giving a thumbs-up.
  • The time necessary for the exposure can be ascertained by taking out one of the many pieces of glass, applying to the sensitive surface a vitrifiable color, and observing whether the color adheres well. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
  • In humiliating contrast, one of China's few tangible rewards involved the set of Qing-dynasty instruments for observing the heavens-among them a Jesuit-designed quadrant, celestial globe and armilla-mentioned above. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
  • Earth observing satellites are paving the way to find out if these biospheric responses are going to hold for the future, ‘adds Steve Running, another co-author from the University of Montana.’
  • The computer flags any bodies that have moved during the observing session and brings them to the attention of the operator.
  • Jo also sent me running for the dictionary when, after observing a particularly chaotic family row, she turned to the camera and exclaimed, ‘What a palaver!’
  • The police officer suspected them of wrongdoing after observing their behavior.
  • He ruminates, at one point, that maybe awakened men and women of old were copied by students and initiates observing this movement in the hope that it would be beneficial or move them towards the ‘goal’.
  • It is mystical and ascetic, with the sisters observing vows of poverty, chastity and silence.
  • By observing the relative positions of the queuer and cutter, the scientists tried to found out whether the cutter targeted a friend or not, and the length of the time the queuer had waited. Dailyindia.com News Feed
  • It also covers the more esoteric subjects of monochromatic observing and spectrohelioscopes.
  • It is idle to suppose that the first activity of our faculties, when every thing is new and produces an unbated impression, when the mind is uncumbered, and every interest and every feeling bid us be observing and awake, should pass for nothing. Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries
  • Methods Observing the levels of parasitemia in mice, development of sexual stage parasites in mosquitoes and induced effect of PRBC extract on NO 2 -from supernatants of spleen cells.
  • In this process, observations and responses are drawn out of a viewer while observing, for example, a painting.
  • Clemens spent most of his time at the opening session observing a particularly ill-bred Washoe delegate, “Colonel” Jonathan Williams, eating an eighteen-pound raw turnip at his desk while simultaneously ushering through committee a sinuous new bill for a toll road that stretched conveniently from one tollhouse to another. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
  • Likewise, observing the appearance of feeding tube aspirate is also unreliable because gastric contents can look similar to respiratory secretions.
  • And frequenting the company of civill youths, observing also the cariage of Gentlemen, especially such as were amorously enclined: he grew to a beginning in short time (to the wonder of every one) not onely to understand the first instruction of letters, but also became most skilfull, even amongst them that were best exercised in Philosophy. The Decameron
  • Do not let the bogy of behaviourism scare you off observing these features; I am not asking you to believe that ‘to see’ is itself a word for a kind of behaviour.
  • Particularly where the movements are fast and fluid, a coach observing proceedings from the sidelines is in a better position than the captain to analyse the immediate match position and to decide on the tactics to be employed.
  • But were he to introduce me to one, and give me an opportunity of shaking hands with him, of conversing with him, of observing his features, etc.; and were he then to introduce me to another, in like manner, with the privilege of shaking hands again with the first, before my introduction to the third; and were he thus to introduce me to them all successively, I might form _twenty-six acquaintances with one introduction_. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes
  • As usual, I'm more interested in observing the media coverage and surrounding hoopla than the actual sporting event.
  • What astonishes those observing from the sidelines is that most of the wider community of around 1,700 people perceive Mackintosh to be a benevolent landlord who has spent his own money on improving their lot.
  • Two young women had been observing me, whispering and giggling, and pointing at me.
  • The teachers' role in observing the children's ongoing play was the catalyst for creating this educationally stimulating environment.
  • Method: Observing the effects of alcohol extract from Sesamum indicum flower on tumor growth in sarcoma 180 ( S180 ) and Heps 22 ( H22) tumorigenic mouse, and on weight of immune organs.
  • Self-punishment is abated by observing other members modeling appropriate emotional responses to various experiences.
  • According to whatsisname up there any reference to him being angry cannot be motivated by observing him being angry.
  • In the dry season, July to November, the river is an excellent place for observing large numbers of game including lions, leopards, hunting dogs, giraffe, waterbuck, eland and warthogs.
  • Fortunately we had brought books with us, and we relieved the monotony by observing the habits of a pair of "kastooras," a hawk, and a brace of chikor at intervals, but it was truly a tedious chase. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
  • We can conjure them away only by observing things under conditions in which the cues to three-dimensional perception are inoperative.
  • All the performers can dance, so what I was really observing was their personalities.
  • The most accurate way to assess an individual's temperament is by observing his expressions and behaviour.
  • By carefully observing the production process, Mr. Juran discovered that one particular worker seemed to have the knack of producing unpitted rings, and set him to training all the others. Pioneer of Quality Control Kept Searching
  • He kept time by observing the phases of the moon. Times, Sunday Times
  • Second, if intentionality is not in the object you are observing, it does not follow that the source could not be some other material object. About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man
  • A CALM regional manager recounted the story of a well known forest scientist who derived 'great personal enjoyment out of sitting on a stump listening to and observing nature'.
  • This is not a film where we find ourselves empathizing with the heroine; instead, we are dispassionate voyeurs, observing her actions and unraveling clues about who she was, is, and will be.
  • Spend a week in the breathtaking Lamar Valley studying and observing wolves, grizzly bears, black bears, moose and other wildlife.
  • The sensitive Druid launched deep into thought, shrewdly observing the the hazel-eyed man making overtures to the daughter of Cobham.
  • Speed refers to observing and shaping developments in the area of operations.
  • After observing the autumn cubbing and seeing the unrequited cruelty of the killing of innocents and following the trail of devastation, the sooner they are dealt with the better.
  • By working through the exercises in their workbook, parents learn to set and monitor their own goals for behavior change and enhance their skills in observing their child's and their own behavior.
  • In this relaxed atmosphere dancers can shop around by hanging out at open doorways and observing dancers and teachers in action.
  • Multitudes of every rank thronged him; but especially the heathenized and embruted colliers near Bristol listened to the unknown gospel, and their awakened feelings were revealed to the preacher by his observing the white gutters made by the tears that ran down their grimy faces. A History of American Christianity
  • God would never have left Jesus Christ, the Savior who never sinned, to violate The Fourth Commandment by observing the wrong day of the week.
  • Yet we do know from animal behaviour studies that observing animals in zoos and laboratories can be very different from how they behave in their natural environment.
  • This ceremony also signaled the beginning of her novitiate - a year-long ‘trial’ period in which she lived among the convent community, observing its rules and strictures.
  • While she spent her evenings preparing, he maintained an intermittent vigil at the bedroom window, offering some grudging help between observing sessions.
  • I walked slowly, observing the fancy ball gowns and simple wool dresses.
  • While the turtle is stewing, carefully scald the head, the callipee, and all that is soft of the callipash, attentively observing to take off the smallest skin that may remain; put them with the gut into a large pot of water to boil till tender; when so, take them out and cut them in squares, putting them in A Poetical Cook-Book
  • For one who is observing an unconventional shloshim, or 30-day mourning period, for Dick Williams - the Hall of Fame manager who died July 7 at the age of 82 - a vivid childhood memory has suddenly come to life. NYT > Home Page
  • I'd gotten an e-mail saying that the club's former president, Trey Wegner, who was at home recovering from an automobile accident, would be video-chatting with the club and remote observing using the Arecibo Radio Telescope during the meeting! Zoe P. Strassfield: Secret Passages and the Invisible Universe
  • Hence, Plato introduces Socrates as observing that "the sages who introduced the Teletæ had positively affirmed that whatever soul should arrive in the infernal mansions _unhouselled_ and _unannealed_ should lie there immersed in mire and filth. Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy
  • The very nature of the duty, which we call preparation, doth inevitably include this, that the time for it must be antecedent to the great duty of observing the ordinance itself. Sacramental Discourses
  • This popular helper automatically builds scripts by passively observing normal system use.
  • Ben – forgot to take his meds again … he seems to suffer from severe mental disorders … as in alexia Loss of a previously intact ability to grasp the meaning of written or printed words and sentences. alogia An impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speech and language behavior. Think Progress » Bush Claims Program That Monitors Tens of Millions of Americans ‘Strictly Targets Al Qaeda’
  • Many other battles King Harald fought, and many other kings did he subdue -- all of which, however, we will pass over at present, merely observing that wherever he conquered he laid down the law that all the udal property should belong to him, and that the bonders -- the hitherto free landholders -- both small and great, should pay him land dues for their possessions. Erling the Bold
  • We also modify our behaviour by observing the behaviour of those around us and by becoming influenced by social expectations and values. Know Your Own Mind
  • There was but one other present, a country lout who stood swallowing his wine, equally unobserved by all and unobserving — to him he dealt a glance of murderous suspicion, and turned direct upon his wife. Lay Morals
  • We thank the many field assistants who have spent long hours censusing and observing birds on our study plots and helping us to understand what determines bird abundances.
  • They aimed to create alternatives so stylish that, as one supporter wrote hopefully, after observing a non-silk parade, ‘one would think that lisle stockings were the latest fashion decree.’
  • I'm expecting the co-pilot to back up the captain with both the flying and the observing for threats.
  • For a long time, scientists have strictly emphasized one kind of synchronization called 'inphase' or 'zero-lag synchrony' looking only at who is coordinated with whom and not observing the details of how they are coordinated. Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
  • The minister said the matter had been referred to the Judicial Department for observing the necessary legal formalities for executing the death sentence.
  • A herring gull with a crab claw in its beak stood on the harbour wall, observing me with pale, unfriendly eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • For example, although she was gregarious, she avoided social gatherings in which there was too much gossip, observing that such conversation was at best unhelpful.
  • Counting how many Pleiads you can see without optical aid is a good test of both your vision and observing conditions; most people see 6 or 7.
  • Your observing site should have a low horizon just to the north of due east.
  • Observing that the Board of Trade had commenced a prosecution against Mr. William Barton, a member of that board, for various acts of peculation committed by him, they say, "We must be of opinion, that, as _prosecutions are actually carrying on against him by our Board of Trade_, he is, during such prosecution at least, an improper person to hold a seat _at that board_; and therefore we direct that he be suspended from the Company's service until our further pleasure concerning him be known. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)
  • As a mere beginning, he doubled the diameter of the solar system by observing the great outlying planet which we now call Uranus, but which he christened Georgium Sidus, in honor of his sovereign, and which his French contemporaries, not relishing that name, preferred to call Herschel. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
  • One of his friends was quoted as observing that Reid might not like to hear it but he is a lapsed Catholic, a man who would never let religion get in the way of his politics.
  • His reasons for thinking so are complex and buried deep in the labyrinthine depths of technical zoological literature, but having surveyed the literature, discussed the issue with colleagues, and spent many hours observing Inia on video, I am certain that the idea of either flying lungfishes or dolphins has been based on misinterpretation. Archive 2006-09-01
  • Observing even just from US, numerous Chinese mail-order bride websites, numerous Chinese "massage parlors" all are cognizant of what these "parlors" really are, numerous US sweatshops all are typical of too numerous female population. 32 million extra males.
  • I rated our pilot soundly, but he only laughed, observing, ` Oh, senhor capitan, that is noting. ' The Three Lieutenants
  • It may be unwise to comment trenchantly from the sidelines about a situation O'Neill is observing daily in training.
  • In the 19th century, bourgeois urbanites known as flâneurs strolled the streets, passively observing the urban landscape.
  • Objective: Observing the effect of Guishen pill on motility emmenia less.
  • To Mike, he resembled a General observing the bloody rout of his foe.
  • By observing of the melt course and by analyzing the measurements of glass samples, the feasibility of nepheline syenite as raw materials for the green float glasses was discussed.
  • It should be possible to test this by observing chromosome behavior in the spindles of dividing animal cells while artificially raising the concentration of intracellular calcium during prometaphase or blocking its rise at the beginning of anaphase. ID-friendly journal paper makes testable predictions
  • She was watching us, observing us, and there was a knowing smile on her elfin face that sent a shiver down my spine.
  • The Olympic torch relay in Ruijin of Jiangxi started with people observing a minute of silence on 14th,May to pay respect to the victims of the deadly earthquake in Sichuan.
  • Edgar, to whom this was communicated, saw with terror the ascendance thus acquired over her judgment as well as her affections, and became more watchful and more uneasy in observing the progress of this friendship, than all the flattering devoirs of the gay Baronet, or the more serious assiduities of the Major. Camilla
  • Happily tact was coming with advancing years, and she did not attempt to mingle in the conversation, which was resumed by Charles observing that the strangest part of the affair was the incompatibility of so novelish and imprudent a proceeding with the cautious, thoughtful character of both parties. The Heir of Redclyffe
  • He watched the monitors before him observing the activity going on in the building.
  • Don Pasquale is not a slapstick farce, it is a comedy of character and relies on the audience observing the detailed interplay between the singers.
  • Simple results on arrangements of lines can be proved merely by observing that the lines and their intersections can be represented as a planar graph.
  • Ned's son was observing galactic clusters with a telescope.
  • The ρ meson is a wide resonance (Γρ = 150 MeV) and will decay primarily inside the nucleus, making it ideal for observing medium effects.
  • With the advent of Jewish Emancipation, when ghetto walls crumble and the shtetlach begin to dissolve, Jewry-like some wide-eyed anthropologist-enters upon a strange world, to explore a strange people observing a strange halakah They examine this world in dismay, with wonder, anger, and punitive objectivity. Indymedia Ireland
  • In the schools we are observing such a transition to active citizenship is facilitated in a number of ways.
  • Today religious Jews are observing the Fast of the 10th of Tevet. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Little children prefer red sugar-plums to white, and always think it the best "content" which is drunk from a painted cup; but when the dispensation of content and sugar-plums has yielded to maturer age, the man takes his coffee and his cracknel without observing the pattern of the pottery. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
  • These, when observing men have made them, unobserving men, when they are proposed to them, cannot refuse their assent to. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • In the end, the key components such as cyclone separator , circulating ash returning equipment, air distributor, firing device, observing window, gate for digging up the dreg are designed.
  • The poses seem to be modelled on a quick-motion camera observing the unfolding of flowerets.
  • Objective To probe into the peripheral mechanism of trigeminal neuralgia recurring by observing the change of the vibrissa pad innervation after the rat infraorbital nerve transected and ligated.
  • People were looking as they rolled past, observing my little moment of theater.
  • However, on observing the details of the car on the web, I discovered that the nippy little sports car had turned into a monster beast four-wheel drive.
  • We also modify our behaviour by observing the behaviour of those around us and by becoming influenced by social expectations and values. Know Your Own Mind
  • If the morals of mankind have not contracted an extraordinary degree of depravity, within these thirty years, then must I be infected with the common vice of old men, difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti; or, which is more probable, the impetuous pursuits and avocations of youth have formerly hindered me from observing those rotten parts of human nature, which now appear so offensively to my observation. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • In addition, one can often gain some insight into the overall structure of the stock market by observing the term structure of the VIX futures - that is, their relationship to each other. MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
  • The owner was standing on the doorstep and observing my predicament with satisfaction.
  • Sholom Aleichem is known as the Jewish Mark Twain, but Bikel enlarges and ennobles the man in ways that turn the world's greatest Yiddish writer into the living embodiment of Huckleberry Finn -- keenly observing the end of the 19th Century in Europe and Russia, the dawn of Jewish life in America, and the incremental death of Yiddish culture that was foreshadowed in that migration. Thane Rosenbaum: Tevye From Fiddler Back With Bikel
  • If you will bear in mind that a playlet is only as good as its plot, that a plot is a _story_ and that you must give to your story, as has been said, "A completeness -- a kind of universal dovetailedness, a sort of general oneness," you will have little difficulty in observing the one playlet rule that should never be broken -- Unity of action. Writing for Vaudeville
  • It is not a slapstick farce, it is a comedy of character and relies on the audience observing the detailed interplay between the singers.
  • By those standards, it would be fair to ask if the person claiming disability due to a spinal cord or brain injury from a motor vehicle accident was in fact observing the speed limit at the time of the accident or if the person who suffered a disabling stroke always religiously took her blood pressure medications and passed on the salt. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Severe Obesity is Not a Choice!
  • If I had thought, by observing the effects of artificial electrical stimuli in small doses on some dozen or so experimental animals with altogether some hundred points of stimulation distributed over the diencephalon, to achieve in due course the looked-for elucidation, then the first result was a thorough disappointment. Walter Hess - Nobel Lecture
  • When we think of observing the law, of keeping the commandments, it is the will that first comes to mind.
  • As well as observing the transit of Venus at Tahiti, Cook charted the coasts of both the large islands of New Zealand and of eastern Australia.
  • Only one thing is unchangeable, and that is the speed of light, which travels at 300 million metres a second, regardless of how fast anyone observing it is moving.
  • And in the canons of 1603, after alluding to the foregoing constitution, and observing that it was too much neglected in many places, it is appointed “That there shall be a font of stone in every church and chapel where baptism is to be ministered; the same to be set in the _ancient usual places_.” The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
  • The gnomish being had left to inform Queen Ojo that he would be “observing” Eva in hopes of learning more about her mysterious species. The Search For WondLa
  • He loved watching and observing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Future generations will not have the pleasure and privilege of observing what I witnessed the other morning.
  • I hurried back to the house for my binocs and camera and spent the next few minutes observing the bird.
  • His key observations of abundant epistatic effects among mutations is just another way of observing that the genetic variability of a trait is under genetic control. Darwin and neutrality - The Panda's Thumb
  • I sat at the back of his court for the day, observing the cases that came before him and the way advocacy was conducted. Times, Sunday Times
  • There I was on the street, I looked around and I had been observing the hustlers only for a few moments when I assumed the stance.
  • It is a common empiricist assumption that I can know my experience simply by observing it.
  • Get the Rand or Flank of Beef cut about a foot in length; bone it, and then mix two Ounces of Salt peter, with a good handful of common Salt: after which, carbonade the outward Skin of the Beef, and rub the whole well with the Salts, letting it lie for twenty-four hours in Salt before you collar it; but observing to turn it twice a day, at least, whilst it is in Salt. The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm
  • All the while, the Wampanoag, including their "sachem," or leader, Massasoit, were observing these sickly looking visitors, frail from hunger and disease, knowing they could wipe them out with one fell swoop. IndyStar.com Top Stories
  • Our provision of insurance under this policy is conditional upon you observing and fulfilling the terms, provisions, conditions and endorsements of this policy.
  • The most unnerving is when we are brushing our teeth in the bathroom and we turn around - to spot a man, on the hill maybe 100 meters away — just standing with his hands behind his back … observing … us in our bathroom … brushing our teeth. We're back!
  • Observing my own children as toddlers, I was in awe of the adventurousness and efficiency of their learning.
  • She saw that there was indeed a man immediately behind her. Moreover, he was observing her strangely.
  • For six months, Minati Khatua, 27, from Orissa, India, was told by her husband that they could not consummate their marriage because "he" was observing a religious ritual.
  • You can't lay out a fence line or shape a plowland or fell a tree or break a colt merely by observing general principles.
  • The effect is to infantilise further, even trivialise the lives we are observing. Times, Sunday Times
  • A herring gull with a crab claw in its beak stood on the harbour wall, observing me with pale, unfriendly eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • NICMOS could not see the other two planets because its coronagraphic spot -- a device which blots out the glare of the star -- also interferes with observing the two inner planets. SpaceRef Top Stories
  • Observing that in Weiss's response to his critics it is possible to discern a form of pre-emptive self-harm, Bengtsson notes that the response is typical of avant garde artists, and that it comprises the three distinct elements of sacrifice, struggle and exemplariness: Peter Weiss - 4
  • Observing that your girlfriends, past and present, were on the slender side my wife opined this was probably due to your eating a substantial share of their dinner portions as well as all of your own.
  • The shape-changer looked down at himself, observing drab brown feathers, barred and speckled, that covered a body half the size of the bird before him.
  • One such event is shown on the picture on the right: they infer that an air shower passed through the detector by observing The number of muons seen underground is an excellent estimator of the energy of the primary cosmic ray, as the Kascade collaboration result shown on the left shows (on the abscissa is the logarithm of the energy of the primary cosmic ray, and on the y axis the number of muons per square meter measured by the detector). A Quantum Diaries Survivor
  • However, I believe the police officers ought to do good detective work by observing.
  • Tiring at last of this diversion, he turned his attention to his sleeping companions, and being in a condescending humour, and observing that the lankiest of the two sleepers was nodding at him, the humorous greyhound raised his front paw and passed it over the face of the slumberer, who thereupon murmured heavily, "Pah! don't taste it, your honour! A Hungarian Nabob
  • He loved watching and observing. Times, Sunday Times
  • I cannot help observing the great difference between an illdresst and a well-dresst mob, and I must indeed be unfeeling and ungenerous not to acknowledge it. Letter 199
  • In this disturbing comic story the narrator has become disconnected from his physical body and identity, observing his family as a ghost. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Devotees must know the position of the sun when observing their religious rituals, and their temples contain an inner sanctum in which burns a perpetual fire.
  • We should encourage young adults to make informed decisions about marriage, and it is abundantly clear to me, both from common sense and from observing others in my 35 years of life, that the only way to acquire that information is to cohabitate before marriage. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?”
  • The computer flags any bodies that have moved during the observing session and brings them to the attention of the operator.

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