As Matsen explained the provenance of each layer of paint, an onlooker decided to climb inside the bathysphere. |
There is an energy about her that dances erratically, a kind of life-enhancing raucousness that makes the onlooker feel just a bit more alive. |
It put the onlooker in the position of a privileged eavesdropper, able to pick up every nuance of an intensely private exchange. |
In this sense the spectator is doubly positioned as an onlooker outside the text. |
As the support and every other onlooker held their breath, it was Wilkie who blootered it clear before the Dutchmen could pounce. |
No nation can stand aside as an idle or wondering onlooker while the world progresses rapidly. |