Word Finder - spectator

definition

One who watches an event; especially, one held outdoors.

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The cheering spectators watched the fireworks.

He was a spectator rather than an actor on the stage of the world.

In that garb he'd make a better spectator than anything else.

In June 1830 The Northern Spectator was suspended.

In fact, she had been nothing more than a spectator for a convincing roll Cade was playing.

Before this time the daily issue of the Spectator had reached 3000 copies; it then fell to 1600; the price was raised from a penny to twopence, but the paper came to an end in 1714.

His style in its simplicity, facility and clearness owed something to De Foe, something to Cotton Mather, something to Plutarch, more to Bunyan and to his early attempts to reproduce the manner of the third volume of the Spectator; and not the least to his own careful study of word usage.

Rome, even in the 19th century, had been a spectator of many changes in the political world.

In the thirtysixth year after the appearance of the last number of the Spectator appeared the first number of the Rambler.

At the coffee house he saw the Spectator and other periodicals.

An article in the Spectator of the 17th of February 1883, by Lord Justice Bowen, gives perhaps the best idea of Smith's extraordinary personal qualities and influence.

To the ordinary spectator Tinamous have much the look of partridges, but the more attentive observer will notice that their Rufous Tinamou (Rhynchotus rufescens).

The Algemeene Kunst en Letterbode (1788) was long the leading review of Holland; in 1860 it was joined to the Nederlandsch Spectator (1855).

He went through the wars of 1866 and 1870 as a spectator with the German armies, and in 1873 he started upon a famous journey through Khorassan.

For the wars in Boni, see Perelaer, De Bonische expedition, 18 591860 (Leiden, 1872); and Meyers, in the Militaire Spectator (1880).

The name, as Huxley said, "took"; it was constantly used by Hutton in the Spectator and became a fashionable label for contemporary unbelief in Christian dogma.

But whilst all the organic processes in man go on mechanically, and though by reflex action he may repel attack unconsciously, still the first affirmation of the system was that man was essentially a thinking being; and, while we retain this original dictum, it must not be supposed that the mind is a mere spectator, or like the boatman in the boat.

Addison contributed to the Taller, and together with Steele established and carried on the Spectator (1710-1714), and subsequently the Guardian (1713).

The painter has departed from precedent in grouping the disciples, with their Master in the midst, along the far side and the two, ends of a long, narrow table, and in leaving the near or service side of the table towards the spectator free.

In 1759 Sumarakov founded the Trudolyubivaya Ptcheld, or " Industrious Bee," giving translations from the Spectator, and, for the first time, critical essays.

His success in reproducing articles he had read in The Spectator led him to write an article for his brother's paper, which he slipped under the door of the printing shop with no name attached, and which was printed and attracted some attention.

A key chain with a light is held over a spectator 's hand.

The fifth and last book takes up the question of man's free will and God's foreknowledge, and, by an exposition of the nature of God, attempts to show that these doctrines are not subversive of each other; and the conclusion is drawn that God remains a foreknowing spectator of all events, and the ever-present eternity of his vision agrees with the future quality of our actions, dispensing rewards to the good and punishments to the wicked.

Cynthia still looked unconvinced at the sanity of endeavor but agreed to be a spectator.

Therefore he took his motives from nature rather than from history; or, if he borrowed from the latter, what he selected was a scene, not the pains or the passions of its actors, Moreover, he never exhausted his subject, but was always careful to leave a wide margin for the imagination of the spectator.

With the completion of the three books of Odes he cast aside for a time the office of the vates, and resumed that of the critical spectator of human life, but in the spirit of a moralist rather than a satirist.

He was a spectator of the riot of St Giles's, Edinburgh, on the 23rd of July 1637, endeavoured in vain to avoid disaster by concessions, and on the taking of the Covenant perceived that "now all that we have been doing these thirty years past is thrown down at once."' He escaped to Newcastle, was deposed by the assembly on the 4th of December on a variety of ridiculous charges, and died in London on the 26th of November 1639, receiving burial in Westminster Abbey.

At an early age he had made himself familiar with The Pilgrim's Progress, with Locke, On the Human Understanding, and with a volume of The Spectator.

In the earlier poems he is practically a lay figure, his court the point of departure and return for the knights whose adventures are related in detail, but he himself a passive spectator.

Moral judgments, then, are expressions of the complex normal sympathy of an impartial spectator with the active impulses that prompt to and result from actions.

The performer holds them on his outstretched palm and asks a spectator to cover them.

If a spectator is getting too pushy, tell them to back off.

Among his other publications may be mentioned Essays, Theological and Literary (1871; revised 1888), and Criticisms on Contemporary Thought and Thinkers (1894); and his opinions may be studied compendiously in the selections from his Spectator articles published in 1899 under the title of Aspects of Religious and Scientific Thought.

This visit resulted in the publication in the Spectator of seven weekly letters, collected in book form at the end of 1847 (see a letter to de Tocqueville in Mrs Grote's reprint of the Seven Letters, 1876) .

These terms of reference should encompass all matters falling within the purview of the local authority on spectator safety.

Let 's say the spectator 's selection is the 8 of Clubs.

Their winning project was a new spectator stand for Southampton football club !

Cook has observed that his work seems to ' evoke some stirrings within the spectator 's subconscious '.

Whether you're a spectator or the driver, race car driving is a great way to relieve stress with adrenaline, heart-pumping action.

Much like winning the Masters golf tournament, I decided that once a winner, it deserved a chance to defend its title, even though Parker hasn't bothered to rate it and the best score that Wine Spectator could muster was an 88.

Read wine reviews from a respected source like Wine Spectator to discover quality wines in your budget.

The Platinum Series ships collectible wines rated 90 points or higher from agencies like the International Wine Cellar and Wine Spectator.

Wine Spectator awarded this wine the Wine of the Year for 2002.

If you haven't tried the wine yourself but want to make sure it is good, take a look at Wine Spectator's Top 100 wines for the year, or seek other reputable wine ratings.

Not always loved and a consistent target for criticism, Wine Spectator is highly successful, having the largest circulation in its category and it is considered the default publication regarding wine.

The Wine Spectator's articles are fine, interviews can be compelling, dining reviews are appetizing, and wine tour information helpful, but the "Buying Guide" is the section that is the meat of the magazine.

Highly Recommended - This category represents the Wine Spectator staff's top-tiered choices.

Shanken - You can't go wrong with a book from Wine Spectator.

These same wine snobs know that when wine is rated by the Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast and Wine Advocate, the price is not revealed before or during the tasting.

Wine magazines such as the Wine Spectator offer courses (online/correspondence) as well as some others-it is definitely the trend.

You simply cannot talk about wine information without mentioning Wine Spectator, one of the most well known and widely respected magazines in the wine industry.