Martin Murphy, who had been a silent onlooker up to this point, made himself heard.
The assertion is restricted - and this is true also of the first and second law - to a purely kinematic content, and so precisely to what the earthly onlooker can apprehend.
Unable to find this reality within himself, the world-onlooker set about searching in his own way for what was missing, and turned to the perceptible world outside man.
Said one onlooker to-day pityingly: "I hear you have such a bad set of men--drunkards and all sorts of undesirables!
They shook hands silently, then kissed; then hand in hand, like two children, they walked away between the guards, and the most curious onlooker never saw even the tremor of an eyelid.
An onlooker would have been sorely puzzled to decide from outward appearance which of the battered, travel-worn band was its leader.
And the solitary onlooker of the two, who had witnessed the marriage, strode into the ring of light, fronting the Elector.
It would have been hard for any onlooker to have guessed that so much misery and heart-burning were there.
But, as is everywhere the case, these fish are not free from molestation, although to the onlooker they seem to be dwelling in a paradise.
His straining eyes had softened to a tenderness the onlooker failed to understand.
A man robs his victim; a righteously indignantonlooker sees the transaction, and his honesty-loving nature rebels.
The onlooker seated on the arm of the stranger's seat was jerked from his balance and sprawled on the player.
In the gyrations of the dance the onlooker would momentarily lose sight of her; she came and went like a blinking candle.
That solemn countenance never responded when he laughed, and stood coldly by when he was on fire; he might have winked for an eternity, and still the onlooker must have thought himself mistaken.
What a startlingly abrupt transition for the onlooker from the "then" to the "now!
The onlooker may only guess at the inner parts of another's life; but at times one may catch a glimpse of the light that another sees.
It is usually the onlooker who sees that, just as a critic sees more in a picture than the painter ever put there.
He sits a silentOnlooker and beholds; the silence does not argue indifference.
But that same familiarity does harden and injure the whole nature of the onlooker who does nothing to alleviate it.
It seems to the onlooker indifferent that men should be dipped in water or not, that they should have their heads shaved or wear long hair.
I hung clothes and arranged the stock with such speed that an onlooker might have thought I was competing in a marathon.
Dad would prop himself up in his recliner behind a wall of newspaper and give an onlooker the impression that he was avidly perusing the articles.
The expression on the surgeon's face went through a motion-picture metamorphosis while the boy onlooker was making his statement.
But he satisfied them that he was merely a curious onlooker and they let him go.
Esther, I should like to be an invisible onlooker during this regime.
The contrast between the two faces in form, development, and expression was so striking that a casual onlooker might conclude there was that essential difference of nature and temperament which might somehow form a basis for marriage.
Perhaps it was because I was an onlookeronly and had no concern in its life.
As a mere onlooker it appeared to me that these miners felt the need of a trade union to protect their interests, yet were themselves half afraid of the power they had set up over them.
It is well to be a mere onlooker at times, then the drama of the little world before you runs smoothly; you do not see behind the scenes.
In fact, he looked so carelessly fixed up that when he sat down he made the onlooker feel quite nervous lest he should subside into a ruin, and scatter his legs, arms, and head promiscuously all over the place.
An onlookerwould have pronounced them a pair of reunited chums.
Malobservation is due, in the great majority of cases, to the ingrained tendency of the onlooker to interpret, to explain, what he observes.
It was not new to him, but perhaps he felt inclined to the attitude of an onlooker to-night, and there was something in this attitude slightly aloof and independent.
He said that she was graceful, clever, and interesting; and the acute little onlooker had not the shadow of a doubt that he held these opinions, but why did she at moments think that he disliked Molly?
On good terms as he was with them all, it soon became evident to so interested an onlooker as Andy Hayes that he was on specially good terms, or at any rate anxious to be, in one particular quarter.
Many an onlooker remembered this sight of her, the deep spiritual eyes, the symmetry of form and fold, the perfect carriage.
It was one thing to be a passive onlooker of a battle, another to be a participant in a plot for the ruin of Leonidas.
Looking back upon the shirt-waist strike nearly a year afterward, its profoundest common value would appear to an unprejudiced onlooker to be its spirit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "onlooker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
